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A Moment on Earth

April 18, 2007

I thought this was pretty neat. It’s a mosaic created with thousands of images taken on every continent, 40 different countries, by 60 different photographers all at the exact same time.

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There’s more to Vista than Flip3D

March 24, 2007

I just finished reading Windows Vista: more than just a pretty face, the first part of ars technica’s Vista review. It’s a very interesting article if you’re curious about why Vista really took so long to complete and what it offers beyond semi-transparent window borders.

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Time To Rewrite a Few Million Pieces of Software

March 19, 2007

This isn’t exactly news, but I just read about it today on another blog. Someone managed to get patent #7028023 for “a computerized list is provided with auxiliary pointers for traversing the list in different sequences”.

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Stumbling Across the Web #4

February 20, 2007

Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
37Signals’ book on web application development is now free to read online. No more $19 to download. It’s written without much fluff and with a lot of whitespace — a quick read.

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Stumbling Across the Web #3

January 21, 2007

Agile processes, are they killing our children?
A cynically comical look at how software life cycles are really done.. among other things. Thanks to dagfinn at SitePoint for that link.

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Stumbling Across the Web #2

January 14, 2007

Where the Hell is Matt?
Another YouTube viral marketing video. Did you notice the Stride gum logo appear several times? Would you have noticed it if I didn’t mention it?

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Stumbling Across the Web #1

January 7, 2007

I often run across websites that provide something useful or interesting; a small tutorial, some inspiration, a useful tool. Not everything warrants a permanent listing in my links, nor do I want to clutter my already unorganized browser bookmarks, so I’ll share them here each week. Maybe you’ll find some of these sites useful [...]

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Improving Automated Fraud Detection

November 15, 2006

I released the latest version of VisitorBoost.com and TargetedVisitors.info to the public. They are my two brands for reselling website advertising services; my most active sites receiving approximately 7,000 orders this year. The latest release included an entirely rewritten account management area, shopping cart and checkout process, as well as new advertising services. Customers [...]

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