Devon Hillard’s Digital Sanctuary
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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:
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Trip to San Francisco
I was in San Francisco for the weekend attending Startup School. You can read all about it over in my tech blog: Friday’s Entry Saturday and Sunday’s Entry
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Startup School 2008 – Saturday & Sunday
I woke up at 6 AM to get ready and head over to Startup School. It was further away than I thought, and the Google map just showed the driving route, and without knowing where fences/etc… were on campus, I chickened out and took a cab to the building that Startup School was in. I…
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