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Marathon #27: Boston

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Marathon #27 is in the books, and it was a good one! This is my second time running the Boston Marathon, my second sub-three hour finish in this r...

Marathon #26: Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona

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I'm happy to share that I just completed my 26th marathon, the 2023 Rock 'N' Roll Arizona race out in Tempe/Scottsdale! Despite being only two w...

Blog Migration in Progress (Again)

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This blog started off running as a custom CMS I built in Rails 2. I was really proud of it, but it was one of my first prod apps and ran really sl...

How and Why I Started Running

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I was recently given a chance to tell the story of how, and why, I started running marathons, and thought it would make a great (and long-overdue) u...

What It’s Like Running in the NYC Marathon

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Today I ran my first marathon. The TCS NYC Marathon snakes its way through all 5 boroughs of the most diverse City in the world. So what’s it li...

Caps Lock? No Thanks!

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Disable the pesky Caps Lock button on your Mac keyboard by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > (Keyboard Tab) > Modifier Keys and ...

My Alcohol-Free April 2014

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snapsi42 @ flickr Last year, my spouse and I moved to Manhattan from some suburbs on Long Island. One of the best parts about moving t...

Hourly News Updates for iOS and Mac

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Hourly News has just been updated for both the iOS and Mac versions. The updated versions — 1.6.3 on iOS and 1.2.3 on Mac — are available now on t...

Hourly News is the TUAW Mac App of the Week

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Hourly News for Mac just got a great writeup from my friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / AOL. I use Hourly News to keep on top of ...

London Bikes — A One-Tap Cycle Hire App

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I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, London Bikes. London Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...

UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0

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UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...

Chicago Bikes — A One-Tap Divvy Bike App

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I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Chicago Bikes. Chicago Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you loca...

I am a Big Brother

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Those of you who have known me a long time know that I had a Big Brother named Scott when I was younger. Yes, had as in past-tense, but not because any ...

Introducing UAObfuscatedString

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What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...

UALogger 0.3 Released

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UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...

Stupid Apple Rejection of the Day

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2.16 We found that your app uses a background mode but does not include the following battery use disclaimer in your Application Description: ...

Office Space: Open or Closed?

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There is an article floating around Hacker News today that makes the argument that open office space sucks. While I see the author's point, it really ...

NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App

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I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...

Introducing UAAppReviewManager

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I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...

Introducing UALogger

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I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...

Starbucks’ Stance on Obamacare

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Prasad Naik, Flickr Surprisingly, Starbucks is doing the right thing when approaching the Affordable Care Act's mandatory health coverage for comp...

Don’t just build things

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Peteris Erins over at Medium.com posts: Build it because it is cool or build it to sell — somewhere between these two approaches lies the sweet spot...

Migrating from Sharify to LimeLM

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The Adobe Air version of Ambiance Desktop has been around for a few years now and has been quite popular as a try-then-buy app. When we first launched i...

Bonding (via XKCD)

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Today is my 2^5 Birthday

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Like any good geek, I would be remiss if I did not point out that today is my 2^5 birthday. For all non-geeks out there, let me explain…

Migrating From Posterous to Octopress

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Posterous recently posted a shutdown announcement stating that the service, now owned by Twitter, inc, would be closing up shop on April 30th, 2013. I hav...

If you run a Rails site, you need to update NOW.

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Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites "It is quite bad," Murphy told Ars. "An attack can send a request to any Ruby on Rails...

Some Birthday Stats

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Today is my 31st birthday. I have been alive for/through: 11,315 days 271,561 hours (as of this post) 16,293,660 seconds (+/- 500) 10 c...

A Daily Conversation With Di

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Me: Why is your heater on? Di: I'm cold. Me: but it's 70 out... it's Springtime... Di: ...for Hitler and Germany. Was this page helpful for you? Buy me ...

Only in Texas…

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I found a Fox News store in the Houston Airport. Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

Impossible puzzle?

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Foxy hanging on the bed

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Life Optimization #113

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Keep your deodorant in your closet so you don’t have to run to the bathroom and back before putting on a shirt. Saves: 20 seconds daily => 140 seconds w...

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

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Do BlackBerry Batteries Really Suck This Much?

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I am not really a big fan of RIM or BlackBerry, but unfortunately have to own several BlackBerry devices to test Ambiance with. Today I heard a “pop” coming ...

Hurricane Irene Update

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Everyone has been asking us if we are going to be ok so I thought I would post here to answer you all at once. Di and I are located on Long Island, in a haml...

Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”

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I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...

I Do Mass Quantities Of…

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I Do Mass Quantities Of… Coke Code. Yes, those are 1's and 0's on the scale :) A great gift from Aunt Robyn and Uncle Dan Was this page help...

iPhoto Face Detection Fail

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My Dinner is Pretty :)

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Why My Dog is on Prozac

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About 6 months ago Di and I rescued a 7 year old puppy mill mom named Foxy. She had spent her entire life mistreated, neglected and abu...

Current Status: Dinner

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GoodGuide App Easter Egg

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It has been long enough since I worked at GoodGuide that I think I can post this now :) While developing the GoodGuide iPhone app, my part...

Who says eating healthy has to suck?

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Mushrooms, Spinach, Garlic, Green Onions, a little egg, and of course, Lao Gan Ma! Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

Sudo Shoes

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Something is compelling me to go in here… Found on Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge, MA. Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 t...

Doggie Bath Time

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Bruise: 1 Week Later

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I am selling a bunch of stuff on eBay

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The Strokes @ Madison Square Garden

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My Old Pedalboard Setup

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Lao Gan Ma

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Enjoying the sun

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Birthday Steak!

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Best Burger I Have Ever Had

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Oh Doggies…

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Showing some leg…

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They Shifted!

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They Shifted!

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Super Cute!

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FU Snow.

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The iBand is Awesome!

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CAT!!!!!!

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Cat or Dog?

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Awesome Hand Dance

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WTTTTTF

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Wasssssaaaaaap!

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Icy Finger

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Fish eat Fish eat Fish…

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Something is awry…

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So Delicious!

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It’s snowing in Portland

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Graffigna: Good Malbec

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Oregon Mist

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Current Status:

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Breathe Deeply

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Oregonian Christmas

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Somewhere over Montana….

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Di looks less than enthused

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Love

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@Ambiance now on sale for 66% off

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At Urban Apps, we want to help spread the cheer this holiday season and what better way than by offering our Award Winning app, Ambiance for only $0.99. Get ...

Knotty old tree

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This view never gets old

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Penn Station Detail

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Going home

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Finally got some seats together!

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Cool clock @Meskerem

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I’ve got a new jacket

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Foxy is all bundled up

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Cutie Pie

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Thanksgiving craziness…

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Ha! What are they up to?

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Clearly I have issues…

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Tucking the dogs in for bed

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Everybody likes the sun

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Look what I found when I came to bed :)

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Keep You and Your Family Safe: All Recalls

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Urban Apps is pleased to announce the release of All Recalls, a new app to help keep you and your family safe. [[posterous-content:WbO2FCKa0In4LxqbIxyz]]...

Custom Xcode theme: “Coneybeare”

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I have been using this Xcode theme for awhile now and I think its rather nice. If you like it, just copy the line below into terminal ...

Why I no longer worry about minor memory leaks

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I have quite a large app out on the app store called Ambiance and have been developing it off and on for about two and a half years now. In the beginning, I ...

I hate leaves.

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Hamachi running

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[[posterous-content:qtIhCFrBlzhkwslzlCbp]] He’s a good boy Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

I am selling my Macbook Pro

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Ends in 18 hours. Check it out http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140468305241&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_456wt_70 Was this pa...

Poorly Stitched Panorama Photo of My Workspace

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3 30" Dell Monitors 1 iPad 3 iPod Touches 4 iPhones 9 Blackberry Devices 1 Android Device Mac Pro Macbook Pro Chair. Was this page helpful for you?...

I never get tired of this view…

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The “Hole”

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Now before I start, I know now that these types of toilets are very common in many countries and millions of people use them every day. This blog is not abou...

What happened with the Ambiance 3.0 failure

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The last two days were pretty bad for me.  I fucked up bad.  I mean really bad. really really bad.  As a developer you expect bugs, and even though you do yo...

Trololo

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Let me introduce you if you haven’t met already…. I can watch this a million times and still laugh :) Was this page helpful for you? Buy m...

Great Political Cartoon

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Why Houses With Dogs Have Poo Smelling Carpets…

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We unfortunately have carpet in one of the rooms in our house and we started noticing a funny smell coming from the room. It is winter out and we have some w...

Life isn’t fair

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My Sleep Efficiency is 98%

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Hilarious Parody Video of Ambiance

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I think its the British accent that gets me… Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

Why I am an Organ Donor…

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My Halloween Costume: iPhone Robot…

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Fixing symbolicatecrash…

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Because you found your way here, I am assuming you already know what symbolicatecrash is and when/why you would use it. If not, take a detour here and come b...

Hamachi Loves His Sock….

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Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…

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Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...

At the Mothership…

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Di and Hamachi: 7AM

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New Ambiance Promo Video

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Word 2003?!?!? WTF

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How to Date a Med Student

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Di sent me this today... Dating a med student? Check out these tips for a "healthy" relationship. 1. Don't expect to see them. Ever. ...

Sweet Music From the Geico Commercials

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I really like the remix of “Somebody’s Watching Me” that is on the Geico commercials with the big wad of cash. http://www.geico.com/about/commercials/music/...

A Letter From Ted Kennedy

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September 9, 2009 The text of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy referenced by President Obama in Wednesday's address to a Joint Session of Co...

Napping with the Dogs…

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I Love My New TV – 73”

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“The Boy Whose Face Scorched the Sun”

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I love dark art! (via http://cheeeeep.deviantart.com/art/TheBoyWhoseFaceScorchedtheSun-134658853 ) Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice o...

Doggies

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Me and My Boy - ZZZzzz

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New Code Blog

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After 1 year of non-updates, I am moving my (broken) code blog onto Posterous. Why, you ask? Well, like every Ruby on Rails fanboy, I created my own blogging...

I Heart My ISP

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[Twittch] Apostrophe Abuse

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Why Microsoft sucks.

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alexnichols: Today at work, I was setting up a few Windows machines. One of the windows product keys didn’t work. After checking thoroughly to make sure t...

Di and Hamachi

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Di and Hamachi Messing around on...

Getting Home With a Dynamically Allocated IP

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I recently had my Comcrap Cable shut off for downloading too much. Apparently, my 'unlimited' service did not protect me at all because I use cable. Basic...

SimpleScrobbler

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I have been busy with a number of projects lately, one of them being a Last.FM client for Leopard called "SimpleScrobbler". It is written in Objective-C 2....

Kitchen Sink

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Wow... it's been a crazy month! I just finished my midterm season and now have some time to catch up on things. Where should I start... Val - Trinidadian Mu...

How to Ignore Files in SVN

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One of the most annoying things when working with version control is trying to filter through a list of .tmp, .log, or .class files that you don't want to co...

Foo Fighters

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Another Y2K Bug?

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There is a bug that is starting to peek its ugly head through the software industry. The new bug will target older software that deals calendar dates, just l...

Back at Cal

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Cal's Sather Tower So I am back in school for my last semester at UC Berkeley. I have only 4 months left of my 16+ year education. It used to seem much scar...

Make Your Own Cache System in Ruby on Rails

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In a previous post I explained how to setup and use Amazon's Webservices to find and display album covers in Ruby on Rails. For the purposes of simplicity in...

Macworld 2008

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MacBook Air MacBook Air MacBook Air MacBook Air MacBook Air I went to the Macworld Expo in San Francisco yesterday... AMAZING! Although not as exciting as l...

Winter Break

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Josh Dobies Rockstar Sameer Mehta Tina Tyan Bill Ross Eric Lambert David Sobeck I just wrapped up my Sun Internship and it really blew by pretty fast! Ab...

Amazon Album Covers in Ruby on Rails

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Lastfm is a free online service that keeps track of the music you listen to. When you play a song in iTunes or another media player, and you have a program t...

Make a Time-Lapse Movie Using a TI89 Calculator

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UPDATE: If you are having trouble getting the code to work right, make sure you have the most recent firmware installed on your ti89 (Thanks Colin). I recent...

Fixing Rflickr and Xmlrpc to Handle Bignums

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Flickr has become one of the more popular online photo storage sites and consequently has billions of picture on there. I use my Flickr account, in conjuncti...

How to Generate PNG Screenshots Using FFMPEG

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After setting up my Server and Home Entertainment Center (I should write up a post on that...) I needed an easy way to automatically generate screenshots of ...

Books, Books, Books

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Over the past 6 months I have travelled to work in San Francisco every day on our subway system, BART. It is a 20-25 minute route each way and I decided I wo...

My 3rd Party iPhone Apps

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It has been 5 Months since I fist got my hands on the glorious piece of aluminum, plastic and glass that we have all come to know, and love, as the iPhone....

My Response on Health Care Attack

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I recently received an email from a friend that caught me off guard. It was a lengthy letter defending the authors belief: "I believe that health care in Ame...

How to use CodeRay to format code

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When I decided I wanted to start my CodeBlog, I knew I would be showing a lot of code on my page and I wanted a way to make it nice and pretty looking. I loo...

The First Post

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other blog</a> is mostly for family and friends and discusses my social life, current affairs, thoughts on politics… everything except my love for all ...

Random Thoughts

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Every car I own in the future will be a hybrid or an clean alternative-fuel car. I need to do my part to help the divorce between Big Oil and Detroit. ...

Happy Thanksgiving

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I waited too long to get my Thanksgiving ticket, and I didn't feel like being stuck in a 10 hour traffic jam, so I decided to spend Thanksgiving in Berk...

Barack Obama

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True to my word, I am looking into Barack Obama as a potential candidate for my vote. Tom, Di and I went to see him speak on Wednesday in San Franci...

Losing Weekend

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I am begining to think I have bad luck... Every sports team I root for loses. Cal lost again this weekend. It was such a promising season 3 weeks ago, ...

Shaving Schedule

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I have a regular shaving schedule: Mondays and Thursdays. I do it on Monday because... well... it just seems like the right thing to do, with Monday being t...

Mom and Jason Come to Berkeley

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This past weekend my Mom and my Brother, Jason, came to Berkeley for a visit. We spent some time hanging out with Di on Thursday night, spent Friday in the ...

Maña, Hillary Clinton, Towed

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This past weekend was amazing! Saturday night, after a great Cal footbal game vs. Oregon, Di and I went to the Oakland Arena to see one of ou...

No Tickets For You!

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The Cal Athletic Ticket Office sucks! Last year, I purchased student section tickets before I knew I wasn't going to be a student. I was worried about my t...

6 Weeks!

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Wow... It's been about 6 weeks since my last update! Sorry if anybody has been really wondering what I was doing! haha. Let's see if I can remember wh...

New Job, New Apartment, Mike-o

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I have settled in nicely at Sun Honeycomb. The office is right downtown San Francisco, South of Market on 1st and Howard. I have spent the past 3...

Pictures Round-Up

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Since I couldn't upload any pics while on cruise, here are the links to both the post about the city and the link to the album of the best pics from that cit...

Coming Home

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We had one last sea-day on the cruise... good for relaxing, packing, and worrying about everything you forgot about while on vacation. I found out that my ap...

Rome, Italy

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What can I say about Rome but WOW... You take a look in every direction and there is a monumental building, ancient treasure, or beautiful landscape. It was ...

Corfu, Greece

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I spent the day in Corfu with the Lyons' and we had a great time. I didn't know much about Greece or Corfu, but I had one thing in mind that I knew I wanted ...

Dubrovnik, Croatia

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My Uncle Dan and I decided that we would venture Dubrovnik on our own and left early morning on a shuttle from the port to Old Town. Old Town Dubrovnik is su...

Venice, Italy

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Madrid, España

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Seville, Spain

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The Last 3 Months

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Bald Again

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Root Canal

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Di’s Back!

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Snowboarding at Alpine Meadows

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Another(!) Good Song

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Another Day, Another Song

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New Look x 2

1 minute read

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FINALS

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Alice in Chains

1 minute read

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The First Down Line

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Nerd

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Cal Football, CS61C, Car Accident (not mine)

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Breaking one Computer Science Stereotype

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Fall 2006, Berkeley Courses

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Sorry…

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Pearl Jam!

1 minute read

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My new career of choice

less than 1 minute read

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4 Days and…

1 minute read

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Pics from Europe

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Almost Back in the USA

less than 1 minute read

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London

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I’m Outta Here!

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Now What?

2 minute read

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Done!

less than 1 minute read

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Finals….

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

Rubix Cube Solver

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Optical Illusions on the Street

less than 1 minute read

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Maynard in the 80’s

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Last Day of Classes

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It is a bittersweet feeling… the school year went by so fast. Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!

Telegraph and Sushi

1 minute read

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5:30 AM!

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Meat Again?

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The Battle of Coachella Fest 2006

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Naan and Poker

1 minute read

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Good News!

1 minute read

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2 Holes, Tool and Chowder

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Week in Review

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“Major” Problems

2 minute read

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Sunshine!

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I’ve had better days…

2 minute read

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Worst Day of the Year!

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I’m going to give it another go…

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I Love the Bay Area

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Snowboarding @ Alpine Meadows

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Poker Blues

2 minute read

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How to prove 0 = 1

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Distractions

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25 Years Old

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Berkeley

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Whisper

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Missing H

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So I was typing away te oter day and I ad noticed tat my key was not attaced te way it sould be. I ad attempted to use adesive to attac te key again but it...

San Francisco

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Injured Friend

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Second Best

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coneybeare.com?

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