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For the record, this blog is not intended to be a source of technical support, political rants, or personal ramblings. I need a place to store my technical thoughts where my family and friends don't have to wade through the jargon, and this is my answer. Think of it as my public personal organization center for all things technical. I hope you find it somewhat useful too, however that is in no way my guarantee.

June
25
2007
9:08 pm
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So this is more funny than anything else. I particularly enjoy it as I work with eCommerce from the development end. I think more frightening than anything else is that the criticisms it makes are less and less true. Machines do a better and better job of predicting human needs and filling them every month.

Enjoy!

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April
30
2007
12:03 am
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Rumor has it that Dvorak is gaining traction in the ROR community. Being the social sheep that I am I’m going to give it a go in my off hours. Who knows… maybe it’ll make me a better typist or atleast that much more 1337.

Dvorak OS X Setup
Dvorak Lessons

April
6
2007
10:44 pm
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So I keep hearing about OpenID. Every couple weeks there’s another blog post about it and I learn something more. I just watched a video and now I’m ready to evangelize. OpenID is complicated, but if you can survive the initial complexity there’s something really cool happening here. Watch and learn, if you don’t have half and hour make it! This is the future of login:

March
8
2007
11:22 am
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My life Web2.0 (if only Web2.0 was something more than a marketing gimmick). So… I suppose this is simply “My life” with a more technical connotation than it has had in past (or other present) manifestations.

I consider myself to be a connoisseur of all things technical. I have a deep appreciation for well written / structured code as well as an unseemly fascination with well obfuscated / unreadable code. I have open source tendencies, but I have no problem admitting when a closed source solution happens to be particularly amazing. As I like to preface anything I work with, if this blog doesn’t strike your fancy, then don’t read it. This is another place for me to collect things.

Topics you can expect to find covered here:

  • Code - mostly ruby
  • Design - whatever I scavange
  • Marketing and Analytics - I don’t know much about these two yet, but things they are a changin’
  • Ajax - to use another well marketed term (this one actually has a technical definition people love to ignore
  • Useful apps - If I life it I’ll probably pass it on
  • Whatever else strikes my fancy… In other words I reserve the right to expand the scope of this blog at will.

If you enjoy what I’m doing here, drop me a comment. If you hate what I’m dong here, drop me a comment and I’ll do my best not to ignore you. Good criticism is worth infinitly more than the best compliment in the world.