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I Don’t Like These Numbers

I’ve been pok­ing fun at many of the num­ber-goal groups on Face­book for some­time. It’s just seems so com­i­cal to me that there are a huge num­ber of “I bet I can find 1,000,000 peo­ple for/against so-and-so” type groups there. They only get more enter­tain­ing the longer I’m on that site. It’s so cute that there’s… Con­tin­ue read­ing I Don’t Like These Numbers

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News of my High School Leaves More Questions Than Answers

I attend­ed high school like pret­ty much any oth­er kid in this coun­try, though this high school was a lit­tle dif­fer­ent. Found­ed as a pri­vate school by Ten­nessee’s WWI hero, Alvin York, it was lat­er hand­ed over to the State of Ten­nessee as the only gen­er­al, state run high school in Ten­nessee1. York felt strong­ly… Con­tin­ue read­ing News of my High School Leaves More Ques­tions Than Answers

Top Level Domains for Companies

Yes­ter­day, Canon announced they were acquir­ing the gener­ic top lev­el domain .canon. I pre­dict as this prac­tice becomes more com­mon­place, it is going to result in a web-brows­er secu­ri­ty night­mare. There are already plen­ty of peo­ple who don’t under­stand how to read a web address to com­pre­hend if they are actu­al­ly at the site they… Con­tin­ue read­ing Top Lev­el Domains for Companies

Screencasting 101 at PodCamp Nashville 2010

You can watch the direc­tor’s cut (extend­ed edi­tion with DVD extras) of my pre­sen­ta­tion here. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, my small HD video cam­era gave out only 22 min­utes into a 32 minute pre­sen­ta­tion. The above is from the still of the actu­al pre­sen­ta­tion at Pod­Camp. How­ev­er, I have re-record­ed the audio (and hope­ful­ly adding back in a… Con­tin­ue read­ing Screen­cast­ing 101 at Pod­Camp Nashville 2010

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Whiskerino 2009

My friend Trey was part of this online beard-grow­ing con­test a cou­ple of years ago. In actu­al fact, it is real­ly a pho­tog­ra­phy con­test with grow­ing beards as a theme (and is thus­ly pret­ty much lim­it­ed to male con­tes­tants, though females cer­tain­ly jump in and con­tribute). For the past few years, I’ve been grow­ing out… Con­tin­ue read­ing Whiskeri­no 2009

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Devices versus Technology

A cou­ple of months ago, Google announced that Android 2.0 (their mobile oper­at­ing sys­tem) will include a maps nav­i­ga­tion ser­vice which will pro­vide turn-by-turn dri­ving direc­tions. This news was cred­it­ed for dri­ving down the stock price of nav­i­ga­tion device man­u­fac­tur­ers Mag­ellen and Garmin. But real­ly, this should real­ly come as no sur­prise. GPS was once… Con­tin­ue read­ing Devices ver­sus Technology

Ruining it for the Rest of Us

The Pew Research Cen­ter has put up a nice, inter­ac­tive graph­ic show­ing some mar­riage sta­tis­tics by state. So, based on what we’ve always been told, you might expect lib­er­al states — espe­cial­ly those which have allowed same sex mar­riages — to have some of the worst num­bers.  It does­n’t real­ly pan out that way, though.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Ruin­ing it for the Rest of Us

Where’s My Free iPhone Stuff?

I’m anx­ious­ly await­ing the release of Tweet­ie 2 by Atebits. I pur­chased Tweet­ie for my iPhone back in Jan­u­ary and the desk­top app in April. I think they are both amaz­ing appli­ca­tions and I use them almost exclu­sive­ly to inter­act with Twit­ter (par­tic­u­lar­ly giv­en the Twit­ter web inter­face’s script­ing vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties). They are both sim­ple and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Where’s My Free iPhone Stuff?

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I Think You Know Why I’m Calling You

John Gra­ham-Cum­ming recounts his suc­cess­ful efforts to have the British gov­ern­ment for­mal­ly apol­o­gize for its treat­ment of Alan Tur­ing: On the bus home I heard direct­ly that Alan Tur­ing’s nieces had many mem­o­ries of their Uncle Alan. They even still had his ted­dy bear. I hung up and sat at the back of the bus… Con­tin­ue read­ing I Think You Know Why I’m Call­ing You

DVDs and iTunes

This has kind of been bug­ging me about iTunes for the past year or so. I had some tiny hope that it would be addressed in iTunes 9, but of course it hasn’t: Why aren’t DVDs played in iTunes like CDs are, instead of a sep­a­rate uni-task app (DVD Play­er)? Okay, I under­stand clear­ly why… Con­tin­ue read­ing DVDs and iTunes