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Schadenfrued Much?

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

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Using Thickbox AND Simpleviewer

I totally haven’t tested this on many browsers, but I’ve managed to get the Jquery Thickbox 3.1 to load up Simpleviewer in a modal window.  You can see it work by clicking gallery at the top of this page.

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A Ruby Convert?

A series of discoveries have led me to question my initial decision to stick with PHP and a PHP-based web framework (Symfony is my favorite) for the web, rather than switching to the vaunted Ruby on Rails framework.  The first discovery was just a simple article on the origins of Ruby.  Here, I have to admit a personal bias and say that if you asked me to choose between something designed by a Japanese designer and an American one, I would select the Japanese.  9 times out of 10, the object, the artifact if you will, will be less complex and more beautiful.1  And after working my way through this fantastic interactive tutorial, I really begin to get a feel for the simplicity of Ruby.  It’s actually aesthetically pretty—uncluttered and easy to parse (grammatically).  And the, finally, the kicker was this screencast tutorial of how to build a database driven blog in about fifteen minutes.  Woah.  So, I’m rolling up my sleeves and giving Ruby a try.  If I like it, I just might switch.


  1.  I’m note sure where this bias comes from by my friend [Osamu Koyama](I’m note sure where this bias comes from) has something to do with it. 

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It’s On, Congressman

For those of you who subscribe to my personal feed, which is all my goings-on all over the web, I’m sure you noticed the enormous barrage of activity there tonight. Make no mistake, barrage is a wholly accurate word for what I intend to be a flanking manuever on Google against Congressman Russell Warner (and no I will not link to his site and add to his Pagerank). For some time now I have been waging a campaign to become the dominate Russell Warner on Google. I was it, for a while, thanks to my very early arrival on the web. But I got knocked off the hill, as they say—I got too big for my britches and took it all for granted. And the hell of it all was that I was again number 1 for about two weeks before Congressman Warner overtook my lead (from second, I think).

But now, between the rejiggering of my blogs, Friendfeed, Lijit, and Claimid, I intend to get it all back! Beware Russell Warners. I’m coming for you, and no corner of the web is safe.

Jquery Sandbox

I’m pretty excited that I’ve finished my first real Jquery UI widget.  You can see it running over on Banapana.  It’s basically just a graphic dropdown menu that shows all the categories for the blog, highlights each button and hides itself when a Jquery “mouse leave” event occurs.  By the way, that’s one thing that I just love about Jquery—the incredibly simple and somewhat intuitive syntax.  The fact that it works exactly like CSS selectors is a huge boon to someone who already knows CSS, and the names for events and such are almost so straight forward that you don’t even have to look them up.  You can see some more of my Jquery work over at my Jquery Sandbox.

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Woah. Sitting in my office working for the first time. This is way cool... and way quiet. (via Twitter)

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“Woah. Sitting in my office working for the first time. This is way cool... and way quiet.”
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Sexy Robot That Can Sing (YouTube) (via Blog)

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WedJul2

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Sexy Robot That Can Sing (YouTube) (via Blog)

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Sexy Robot That Can Sing (YouTube)
Wednesday at 10:01 am - Comment

Oh no! We have hamburgers but we also have rockets! (via Twitter)

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“Oh no! We have hamburgers but we also have rockets!”
Wednesday at 7:36 am - Comment

TueJul1

Off to orientation for grad school. Good lord that sounds weird. Orientation? I'm 32.7; if I'm not oriented at this point, it's hopeless. (via Twitter)

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“Off to orientation for grad school. Good lord that sounds weird. Orientation? I'm 32.7; if I'm not oriented at this point, it's hopeless.”
Tuesday at 6:11 am - Comment

MonJun30

Kung fu panda with the niece ! (via Twitter)

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“Kung fu panda with the niece !”
Monday at 2:14 pm - Comment

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Monday at 10:31 am - Comment

Goodnight Twitter (via Twitter)

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“Goodnight Twitter”
Sunday at 11:50 pm - Comment

SunJun29

I just typed my *own* domain in as russellbites.com. Self-loathe much? (via Twitter)

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“I just typed my *own* domain in as russellbites.com. Self-loathe much?”
Sunday at 5:48 pm - Comment

Ponoko - Product plans (via del.icio.us)

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Sunday at 5:28 pm - Comment
 Site for 3D printing your own designs - ruzel

Mighty Goods: Shopping Blog (via del.icio.us)

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Sunday at 12:59 pm - Comment
 I like this stuff. - ruzel

I used to mock Coldplay as "Radiohead Lite." Viva La Vida is completely changing my mind. (via Twitter)

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“I used to mock Coldplay as "Radiohead Lite." Viva La Vida is completely changing my mind.”
Sunday at 12:18 pm - Comment

@ylnt I just finished listening to every episode. Weekend marathon. So now make more. Now. (via Twitter)

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“@ylnt I just finished listening to every episode. Weekend marathon. So now make more. Now.”
Sunday at 11:44 am - Comment

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June 28 at 9:45 pm - Comment

SatJun28

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June 28 at 12:14 pm - Comment
 Pretty self-explanatory. Seems to make using pngs much more advantageous. - ruzel

Thinking about heading out the the shotgun festival in Louisville (via Twitter)

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“Thinking about heading out the the shotgun festival in Louisville”
June 28 at 9:52 am - Comment

Sexy Robot That Can Sing (YouTube) (via Blog)

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Sexy Robot That Can Sing (YouTube)
June 28 at 9:40 am - Comment

FriJun27

Whatever disseminates your brainchild. (via Twitter)

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“Whatever disseminates your brainchild.”
June 27 at 8:25 pm - Comment

Whatever perfectly imitates your electric simon says. (via Twitter)

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“Whatever perfectly imitates your electric simon says.”
June 27 at 7:08 pm - Comment

blik surface graphics. Decals, stickers and graphics for walls, cars and surfaces of all kinds. (via del.icio.us)

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June 27 at 1:43 pm - Comment
 Vinyl wall decorations. - ruzel

Whatever sustains your hypocrisy (via Twitter)

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“Whatever sustains your hypocrisy”
June 27 at 1:34 pm - Comment

Whatever fuels your rage. (via Twitter)

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“Whatever fuels your rage.”
June 27 at 1:32 pm - Comment

Whatever flies your kite. (via Twitter)

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“Whatever flies your kite.”
June 27 at 1:32 pm - Comment

Whatever floats your boat. (via Twitter)

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“Whatever floats your boat.”
June 27 at 1:31 pm - Comment

Huh. Just found a new novel: "The Abattoir" by Calfka (via Twitter)

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“Huh. Just found a new novel: "The Abattoir" by Calfka”
June 26 at 11:47 pm - Comment