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Why Reinvent the Wheel?

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:45:44 GMT

I have a blog that I host myself on a Debian Virtual Server running wordpress 2.7 with my own homegrown MU extension. I appreciate the GT offering me a community blog but I don't have time to maintain yet another one in the high style to which my blogs have been accustomed. What I do like is in-links to my existing blog. So I am including a widget that points to the latest posts on my own blog that I totally control. Of course this is widgety javascriptey so there is no link love here. But I'd be tickled if the titles of any of my blog posts inspired you enough to do an actual honest-to-goodness (OMG here it comes) Clickthrough!

No worries: this post will NOT suck you into a vortex

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:08:04 GMT

In case you hadn’t heard, our local newspaper publishers (Gazette-Times/Democrat Herald owned by Lee Enterprises) have taken a giant step future-ward with the launch of the new mid-valley voice social network. If you are not local, I would hazard a guess that other historically print based publishers are doing a similar thing to try [...]

Blogging Hiatus

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:26:45 GMT

For the next 8 days this dork will be taking a hiatus from blogging. I will answer your comments when the hiatus is over. Listen to this post

Open Source Tux Geek Penguin Mittens

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:01:44 GMT

Your faithful dork recently had to be hospitalized for surgery. Everything went well and full recovery is expected, but I did get a midline incision that incapacitated my core until it heals. You use your core for EVERYTHING, so that nasty little side effect could not clear up too soon! [...]

Back at the Zend Framework… finally!

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:34:14 GMT

Warning: HARD CORE DORKAGE!!!! I hope beyond all the hope that I have obtained the book that will drag me over the learning curve for Zend Framework for real. The book I am referring to, Zend Framework In Action by Allen, Lo & Brown, was meant to come out in September, but it finally [...]

Creative Commons License your tweets

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:19 GMT

This little TweetCC Twitter App makes it very easy for you to license your tweets, according to any of the various flavors of the Creative Commons License. All you do is press the button by your chosen flavor of creative commons, it tweets the appropriate message as a reply to @tweetcc, and then they will [...]

Ultra Custom Twitter REAL Mosaic Poster

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:13:31 GMT

In a recent blog post on the Twitter Mosaic Web App I showed an example from a twitter app that randomly tiles your follower avatars into a grid and then tries to sell you the design on shirts, mugs, etc. This is not a true mosaic. In a true mosaic [...]