Posts from ‘August, 2009’

I’ve done a handful of web projects this year where it made sense to store data in Google Spreadsheets, and then use a bit of PHP code to make them be dynamically displayed on a web site. In many cases, these are tables of data that are parsed and presented nicely in the web site, [...]

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After a long break, I’ve started running again (that’s another yet blogged bit, but not the point today), and am doing so listening on the iPOd to Chris Anderson’s book Free on audiobook (the one I packaged from his free mp3 recordings)
So there’s a section where he’s talking about Moore’s Law and [...]

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The CogDog flies low under the radar.
Are you curious what stick man is in peril?
Just stay tuned!

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Another August 27th clicks by, another notch marking one more year since my Dad passed away (2001).
I love this picture of him (not sure how old) at Coney Island (he grew up in Newark, NJ)- he looks sort of serious in is driving role and his [...]

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I cannot claim organization as one of my attributes, but have had an interesting process the last few months in getting a tad closer to being more organized in my digital photography. The 12,000+ photos in flickr accumulated since March 2004 are but the tip of a glacier looming [...]

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Turning an original photo of Vancouver from the Burrard Street Bridge into something like a toy train model is now easy!
I’ve done some toying around with the tilt-shift effect using various techniques in PhotoShop, but the Tilt Shift Generator is a fun and easy way to create [...]

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I cannot recall who it was, but I knew someone in the tech biz who talked about taking an occasional “Amish weekend” where he and his spouse turned off their computers, cell phones, TVs etc for 2 days as a means of focusing on life, free of gadgets.
For [...]

My session yesterday at the Open Education Conference was absolutely the most fun thing I have put together for a conference. it was so fun I did not wait til the night before to finish it. The images above were totally not necessary, but I found myself up at 1:30am mocking up old covers from [...]

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"Open" is the theme as I arrived to a wet soggy grey Vancouver for this week’s Open Education Conference.
So while I cannot expect stores to be 100% open all the time (and this liquor store does pretty damned good to be open), I have higher hopes for [...]

Randomly surfing flickr for photos for a new video project. Sometimes, when I find a photo (usually via a compfight search) i like that’s part of a set, I look at the whole set.
On one today, I found it was generated automatically by something called Flickr Set Manager:
Flickr Set Manager allows you to automatically create [...]