Year: 2008
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French Croissants
I’m sitting in my local coffeehouse, Diva Espresso, which by most measures is a great place. However, I’ve just choked down a croissant. Before I went to La Napoule in the South of France, I liked their pastries. Now that I’ve eaten the croissants and pan au chocolates from multiple cafes in the South of…
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France
I spent a week in the South of France with my wife and her family. It was amazing! I haven’t posted about it yet, because it’s hard to figure out what to say. It was an amazing week, full of cool experiences to relate. Way too much to put into a single blog post. Here’s…
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YouTube Gets Stuck After 2 Seconds
I recently started having an issue with YouTube playing a video without sound for 2 seconds, then stopping. This is a new laptop, so everything is fresh and new, leaving me with a ton of potential culprits: OS X, Safari 3.1.1, Flash, network, Perian, etc…. Googling showed that other people were having this issue across…
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Updates to the ATG RSS Feed Module
Thanks to Doug Henderson sending me some code updates I have released a new version of the RSS Feed Droplet (first mentioned in this post) which supports configurable character encodings. This can be very useful if you have “interesting” characters in the content you are publishing. I have also rolled the code into my ATG…
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Will Tech Startups Be The Hero This Recession?
Something interesting that was brought up at Startup School, is that unlike the last economic bubble burst, which was pretty much 100% CAUSED by tech startups, the current bubble bursting, and subsequent recession will leave Tech Startups largely unaffected, at least directly. Tech Startups, by and large, don’t carry significant debt. As such they will…
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Vanity Plates
My friend Andrea was recently in Boston running the Boston Marathon, which is an amazing accomplishment if you ask me. She saw this license plate: