People often ask me what I do for a living and my answer is usually that I get paid to play with computers and manage people who play with computers. But if I were to drill down, I really do a lot of different things (as you can probably tell if you’ve seen a lot of my posts). But one of my favorite things to do is unwrap tons of shiny new computers and put them into the hands of students. The potential, the excitement, the smiles make much of the other stuff worthwhile. You actually get to feel like you made the world slightly better. We usually refer to…
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Hooray for Star Trek!
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A More Minimal https://krypted.com/
I’ve wanted to redo https://krypted.com/ for a long time. And I finally had a good excuse: my wife and daughter went to sleep early tonight. So, phase one, a very minimal design. This kinda’ mimics my latest approach to a lot of things, but the site is far simpler, a little quicker and hopefully now that the bad design has less to say, I’ll end up getting back to having more to say. Anyway, I hope you like it and Happy 2013!
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MacTech Spotlight – Fall 2012
Looks like I’m on the back page of the latest issue of MacTech Magazine (see Table of Contents at http://www.mactech.com/issue-TOCs-2012). And it turns out I’m not there for the reason I usually adorn the back page of magazines; I’m fully clothed and for the most part it’s technical: I’m the MacTech Spotlight. If I keep this up, I’ll be able to keep my clothes on full time in the future. Not sure what will happen to my spot at Sunset and LaBrea now, though… Anyway, despite featuring me, MacTech is a great magazine. Where else can you find information on Adobe packaging, QuickLook development, building a Squid proxy, HTML5 and…
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Man of Steel
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A Little Politics On Thanksgiving
Growing up, there were two things to do on Thanksgiving: watch football and talk about politics. Football-wise, the zombie apocalypse is coming. So I don’t have a lot more to say about that today. Politics on the other hand, I do have a lot to say about. But I’m not going to. Instead, I’m going to let him do it. Have fun, eat turkey and don’t punch anyone just ’cause they don’t agree with your politics. Unless they disagree AND have no clue what they’re talking about (doesn’t matter which party). Then you can punch them. But not too hard, ’cause they might work out and punch you back next…
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One Last MinneDemo For The Year In Minneapolis
The vibrant technology community here in Minneapolis has at least one more event left in the waning days of 2012. And to wrap the year, 7 minute demos with no presentations at MinneDemo, a bar camp-esque event focused around demoing new tech. I love the cookouts these guys have, but it’ll probably be too cold and snowing to have dozens of people milling around a keg, so let’s go indoors and watch people demo tech that hopefully works. A little of what they have in store for us (to quote their site): As always, MinneDemo features home-grown tech without the BS. The rules are simple: 7 minutes, real working technology,…
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Zombies Make Me Happy
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Iron Man 3
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Hansel and Gretel Go Witch Hunting