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    • Hi, Rich! How are you? I'm here to publicly thank you for developing and releasing the Wordpress plug-in "Time Since", which I'm currently using at my new project: ZapShows – http://www.zapshows.com I've ...

      2 weeks ago by Mateus Moraes

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    The Truman Show, Part I started by manalang
    No… this is hardly about Jim Carrey’s blockbuster hit in 1998. It’s also not about the x-president. I thought it was time to introduce the internet to Truman, our dog. Truman deserves a lengthy introduction since he’s been through a lot of hard times in the two and a half years [...]
    Down Under started by manalang
    I hate long flights. It’s even worse when you’re flying coach. I’m currently headed to Sydney for a four day workshop my team is hosting. I used to love traveling to far away places for work. When I started at PeopleSoft back in 1997, my first consulting assignment was a six [...]
    Unplugged started by manalang
    This past weekend (yes old news), my wife and I spent the weekend on the Mendocino coast — a 3 hour drive north of San Francisco. It was a great weekend to unplug and recharge. Even if we didn’t want to unplug from the connected world, being in Elk (15 minutes south of [...]
    Four More Years started by manalang
    Words can’t describe how disappointed I am with the outcome of this election. Leonard summarizes it pretty well.
    Thanksgiving Weekend Races started by manalang
    On Thursday, I ran the Turkey Beach Trot (6m) at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Today, I ran the Run to the Far Side XX (10k). Both excellent races.
    A Few Enhancements started by manalang
    Since getting my D70 on Friday, my love for photography has been renewed. I started taking photos back in high school (for the yearbook). Back then, I used my dad’s Pentax K1000. Then after college, I bought myself a Nikon N80 (now for sale) along with four great lenses (50mm/f1.8, 24mm/f2.8, 24-120mm/f3.5-5.6, [...]
    Photography Books started by manalang
    [Uploaded by manalang on 2 Dec '04, 10.25pm PST]
    Photo Friday: Reflections started by manalang
    [Uploaded by manalang on 6 Dec '04, 8.23pm PST]

    This week’s Photo Friday theme is “Reflections”. This is my entry.
    Google Maps Set to Blow Minds started by manalang
    Matt Haughey just commented on the new Google Maps. Very cool stuff. He did, however, forget to mention the coolest thing of all… drag-able navigation on the map. Pretty amazing shit.

    Update: Even better… put in your address then get driving directions to or from.
    Feeds Fixed started by manalang
    After upgrading to WordPress 1.5.1, my feeds stopped working. To fix it, I had post something per this bug.

    Someday, I’ll get back to real blogging. Very busy these days.
    WP-Amazon is One Year Old! started by manalang
    As I was updating WP-Amazon this morning in response to this comment, I noticed that I released WP-Amazon to the world on June 23 last year. So, to celebrate, here’s a new release: WP-Amazon 1.2.8. This is a minor release that changes the Amazon link to a button within the Quicktags region… this [...]
    Work or Life? started by manalang
    DHH wrote an insightful post recently that highlights the importance of a work/life balance. I feel exactly the same way as David. I spent many years burning the midnight oil constantly and tirelessly working on “being 90% done for 90% of the time.” For me, it’s work to get out of that [...]
    The Back Door started by manalang
    Tim Bray just posted an excellent essay about how to survive as a forward thinking technology company.

    The Front Door and the CIO I’ve dealt with quite a few CIOs, and they don’t think about technology, they think in business terms and those are the only terms they think in. When the SAP salesman says a [...]
    The Best Source for Bookmarklets started by manalang
    This site has the most complete source of bookmarklets I’ve ever run across. My favorite one is the edit styles bookmarklet which brings up a window that allows you to change a site’s stylesheets on the fly and have the changes instantaneously be reflected on the page… this only works on Mozilla Firebird though… [...]
    Code Updates started by manalang
    For those of you who use my Ta-Da List Greasemonkey script or WP-Amazon, you might be interested to know that there are new versions available as of today. First, I’ve added an options page on WP-Amazon that allows you to specify a default country, add your associate ID, and change the subscription ID — [...]
    WP-Amazon Now Supports France and Canada started by manalang
    Just a few days ago, Amazon E-Commerce Services (ECS, aka, Amazon Web Services) announced support for France and Canada. So, I’ve updated WP-Amazon to take advantage of the new French and Canadian web service support. I know a few of you have been waiting for this feature, so here it is… go to [...]
    Excellent Interview of Wesley Clark started by manalang
    Cameron Barrett has joined the Draft Clark campaign (potentially as the “blog strategy guy”). His latest post points to an excellent interview of Clark by Joshua Marshall. BTW, Wesley Clark now has a blog.
    Twitter Updates for 2007-04-10 started by manalang
    loading languages into the portal demo db from the apps… pretty boring stuff #
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    Twitter Updates for 2007-04-09 started by manalang
    me too… #

    thinking of “workdayr.com” #

    showing my wife how twitter works #
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    Twitter Updates for 2007-04-06 started by manalang
    thinking of how twitter can be useful for my work #
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    Google Pack started by manalang
    Hot off the press!  Looks like the GOOG folks enabled this URL right before Larry Page’s keynote at CES.

    Technorati Tags: google
    Wow that was quick! started by manalang
    Shortly after announcing Monkeygrease, it’s already posted on Ajaxian! Cool… thanks Ben and Dion!
    Unleashed started by manalang
    A few months ago, I wrote about a frightening experience with our dog (Truman) getting attacked. Earlier this week on the drive in to work, we heard Leslie Gordon’s (a San Francisco citizen) perspective on violent dogs and their owners [via KQED.org]. Her comments were triggered by a recent dog attack in Golden [...]
    Looking for a .NET Web Service? started by manalang
    Here’s a handy tip… If you’re looking for a .NET web service, just google it! If you append a search query by “filetype:asmx” (.NET’s default file type for web services), you’ll get a bunch of .NET web services related to your query. Here are some examples:

    * Zipcode

    * Weather

    * Stock Quotes

    * Dilbert

    You get the point.
    Why is the Corporate World so Slow to Adopt Open-Source Tools? started by manalang
    Dylan Tweney a technology journalist, writes about open-source tools and their slow adoption rate by CIOs (April 15, 2003 edition of CIO Magazine). When IT operating costs are being scrutinized more than ever and downsizing is inevitable, it seems that open-source technologies would be an obvious choice for most CIOs to move to. [...]
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