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Happy Birthday, Podcasting
Today marks the 9th anniversary of the day the first podcast was published. Adam Curry‘s Daily Source Code is hardly daily anymore (in fact there hasn’t been a new episode in over a year) but podcasting has since become commonplace. It’s just another way the iPod (and other MP3 players) have become indispensable in today’s […]
I Don’t Care If Jason Collins Is Gay
A big story broke earlier this week when NBA player Jason Collins announced he is gay. Collins became the first active player in any of the four major sports in the United States (NBA basketball, MLB baseball, NFL football, NHL hockey) to come out. The story found it’s way into all media. Even a baseball […]
Pointing Abraham Williams’s PHP Library for Twitter OAuth to Twitter API 1.1
I’ve mentioned before how I’m using Abraham Williams’s PHP library for Twitter OAuth for various projects. With the impending decommissioning of version 1.0 of the Twitter API the question has come up as to how to edit this library so it uses version 1.1 of the Twitter API instead. It’s actually quite simple: Open twitteroauth.php. […]
Plugged In, Not Charging?
When I came into work this morning I noticed that the battery icon in the task tray of my windows 7 laptop said “63% available (plugged in, not charging)”. Naturally the “plugged in, not charging” part was a concern. After Googling for suggested fixes and trying a few different things I hit on a fix […]
Let’s Stop Using The Term Blogger
Upon perusing a couple of fan sites for a sports team this morning I began musing on how blogs have evolved over the years and how the term originally applied to the content management system has grown to cover several genres of writing. As a fan of the New York Mets I was one of […]