Saturday, May 16th, 2009
I recently hooked up with a guy named Michael Wysmierski from Brazil who has created a thrill ride of a video called simply “UFO”.
“UFO” features not only an original musical treatment of the subject, but also some very cool visuals. I think you will enjoy this very creative project. I certainly am. Warrants a second [...]
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Skyaak winging its way to Coolest Gadgets HQ in UK
Several months ago a mutual friend introduced me to Al Carlton, owner of www.coolestgadgets.com . Skyaak was featured on the popular website and created quite a buzz. Several hundred visitors swarmed www.skyaak.com and a healthy percentage purchased a DIY deuce, which if you have been following [...]
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
My grandfather, may he rest in peace, was a lobster fisherman on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. So was my great grandfather before him. So the instinct to cast a well-baited hook into the depths in hope of hauling in a good catch is hard-wired into my DNA.
No wonder I am so interested in social [...]
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Twitter is great for keeping up with what your friends are doing, thinking and sharing. It’s also a terrific tool for meeting new people who share your interests, due to the fact that you can launch specific searches for people in certain keyword groups. You can check in to wefollow.com to register your tags, or [...]
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
What follows is a short but exquisitely sweet video clip that was shot by my good friend Fred at Berekley Campus. He used a Flip Camera for this project and you will see how nice the resolution is. A shout out to Fred for this, great job!
To quote Fred from his Youtube post, “Here’s a [...]
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Yesterday was NOT the easiest!
I simply wanted to include a snippet of code that would make my blog posts re-Tweet-able and that’s when the problem started.
Without going into too much detail (it is still painful to think about, even now) suffice to say it was a SNAFU.
What was formerly normal suddenly wasn’t.
In fact, I ended [...]
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