Archive for June, 2008



Six Months

Unless you consider the vast amounts of Ting I consumed while in Jamaica, as of midnight tonight I will have been off pop for six months. For someone who used to take in more Code Red Mountain Dew in a day than he did oxygen, this is a pretty big deal.

By default, ColdFusion 8 comes with LCDS 2.5. But there’s a lot of new, good stuff in LCDS 2.6 that might be good to take advantage of if you’re doing data services work in ColdFusion. There are some instructions on Labs, but I just tried them tonight, and I think they’re terrible. Luckily, Joshua Rodgers […]

Are you interested in how RIAs fit into the enterprise? Are you going to be in London July 11th? If so, then you should swing by Adobe’s offices in Regent’s Park because James Ward and James Governor of RedMonk fame are holding a “Nanoconference” around RIAs in the enterprise. It sounds like it’ll be a […]

Kevin Nunez posted about some of the “Best” AIR applications he’s come across. It’s a pretty good list that’s divided into a number of different categories but he doesn’t actually link to any of the applications which I think is crazy. The only reason I mention it is because I hadn’t seen a lot of […]

rhythm vs. routine

For the past few weeks, I’ve had not a sense of rhythm or routine. we’ve been in the midst of packing and moving our family from Seattle to Austin. My life is literally stuck in boxes, and I can’t wait to get out.
This is all helping me to see that creativity doesn’t just happen when […]

German Ingenuity

This is awesome:


More information on the simulation is available at Edmunds Inside Line (via Autoblog).

Melting Away

From The Independent:

It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.

The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic — and worrying — examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.

(Via Seattlest).

What’s the Story?

If there was ever a reason to hate evolution, it would be Morning Glory.

On the Up-and-Up

Sign Posted at a Gas Station

gas cap courtesy of Flickr user JeanineAnderson.

We’re going out the Aleutian Islands… to a faraway place where birds live, the winds blow hard, and you can’t there by car.
 
Unalaska or bust!  Where is Unalaska?  Click on the link below…
 
 
I’m super excited and somewhat unprepared - I haven’t even started packing.  We leave tomorrow at 5:30ish.  :)