July 21st, 2009 § § permalink
Often, when people ask me if I need anything my canned response is “A pound of Fifties”. Up until about 10 minutes ago, I never was asked how much money was in a lb of 50s. Leave it to my boss to ask. So, I quickly did the math. Apparently, a dollar bill weighs 1 gram. (I am going to assume this site is correct, even though it looks less than reputable…it is the internets). Going with this math, I calculated that 1 pound equals about 453.59 grams, approximate to 454 (because this is money I hope to get some day, I rounded up). This means that if you calculate grams times $50, you get $22,700. So, if I ask… » Read More
June 9th, 2009 § § permalink
Since Startup Weekend, I have noticed the impact that having that many top-notch people around in one place has had on those same top-notch people. Many different blog posts, tweets and general conversation has come out of this weekend. So I am going to do my best to aggregate some of that information here. Twitter Posts #swb09 LilBiker’s Startup Weekend Boulder 3 (note: Neal and I are in the picture towards the bottom of the article!) LilBiker’s Flickr Set of Startup Weekend Photos Presentation Video of all of the Startup Weekend Ideas. The Official Startup Weekend Boulder 3 Page Startup Weekend’s Idea Fuel (Illegal Pete’s) —- If there are any other links that I am missing, please tell me and… » Read More
February 8th, 2009 § § permalink
Yes, I have heard it more times than I can count: How many projects do you have? The answer is, too many, of course! When you are a person like me, your mind is constantly racing and you see ideas and opportunity everywhere. Or at least I like to think that it is that…and not just insanity. I started a new project recently, called My City Headlines. The idea behind the project is to aggregate specific city’s news in one place. This provides people with a single location to get their local news without having to search multiple sites. I am inspired by Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop.com. They pick a subject, any subject, and find the top news/blog sites on that… » Read More
February 6th, 2009 § § permalink
This post is a continuation of my post about managing my tasks, projects, and responsibilities. There are links to the other posts at the bottom of this post. Lists In Notepads Recently, I found myself writing everything down in a notepad. I was writing all of my personal to do items as well as my client and work to do items in the one list. I quickly realized that it was getting to be too much in one list and maybe even too much for a single notepad. My solution was to run to Target and get some new stronger notepads that will withstand the wear and tear of being transported in my backpack to and from work and all… » Read More
February 5th, 2009 § § permalink
I was replying to a friend on Twitter using trim, and I had a <script> tag in the post. I realized when I submitted that the tag made everything after it in my tweet dissapear. If you want to see the actual tweets, you can find them in my twitter feed here: Matt Bernier’s Twitter Feed First thougt was, “No Way!”. Second thought was, “What Else Can I do?”. So, I tried basic HTML with this tweet: <h2>Testing whether HTML breaks tr.im</h2> B/c my <script> tag did earlier</script> <span style="color:blue;"> ScreenShot coming</script> This got me this result: Then I tried an alert: <script type="text/javascript"> alert('does this work?'); </script> That got me this result: Then lastly, I tried a little more… » Read More
February 3rd, 2009 § § permalink
I really wish I had a video recorder on my iPhone # 48 emails and 92 twitter posts to start out my day… # @jhartikainen yeah, i know. It’s pretty lame that the iPhone cant/wont do it without jailbreak. # @ctshryock you gotta protect the baby!!! *hopefully getting it today, even though its scheduled for tomorrow. # The tubes provide Soma for the masses (social anesthesia) http://tr.im/ed2t # @ctshryock haha, yeah, but he must really LOVE his computer. Is it like putting a kid in a stroller? # @oudiantebi Thank GOD that IE6 is dying, I can only hope that people realize windows has updates available… # asking people to stop posting the same thing to twitter repeatedly. # I… » Read More
February 2nd, 2009 § § permalink
Sick of judgemental people. # Check out the unlimited online backup service chosen by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. http://tr.im/e3d1 # @chriseaster I just noticed that http://www.failedproposals.com has links to http://www.groomsadvice.com and http://www.themanregistry.com!! # Everyone’s site was marked as “This site may harm your computer” on Saturday http://tinyurl.com/dmn29v # How do you get a client to pay, when they don’t answer email or phone calls? *sent invoice weeks ago # I think I might write software that is so convoluted I make 10x what I sell it for, in support… # listening to Blues All Morning Long # Comcast gives 10 second porn preview during super bowl http://tr.im/e6v5 # @stevepowell I wish I hosted it, would be easy…. » Read More
February 1st, 2009 § § permalink
I forgot to listen when I was telling myself that an rss feed will not work as a sitemap for google. What was I doing? # Apparently Wendy’s employees get paid too much http://tinyurl.com/cuupq9 # My blog currently ranks on the second page for my name. There are people who have had websites longer, but I will be #1, oh yes I will. # you follow me, with 1 update in your account, you are following 90+ people and only 5 following you…uh, no I’m good. # Do I even want to know what happened to Dennis Rodman? I don’t think I do. He scares me # Do I accept the offer of $130 for a domain, ask for $150… » Read More
January 30th, 2009 § § permalink
@chriseaster you can learn it! There are 100 different books on any prog language.. # Making arnold palmer’s and cool hand lukes at home: Priceless # Just hand coded and added a google sitemap to mycityheadlines.com # @chriseaster haha, send me an email with what you want, and I will look into it. Learning a new prog language is like learning Spanish… # @chriseaster Arnold palmers are especially good when made with “Simply Lemonade” and homemade ice tea # It’s amazing. I go to bed with 1 unread message, get to work and there are 30 # I have seen 4 people this morning on twitter who follow no one, but have tons of followers…how does that work? # @hospadam… » Read More
January 29th, 2009 § § permalink
welcome to twitter @nakedguyinurpool # uhh…scratch that last tweet. Should be “welcome to twitter @nakedguynurpool” # trying out url highlighting in twitter mycityheadlines.com # one more: http://www.mycityheadlines.com # TinyURL has an API http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/06/27/tinyurlHasAnApi.html # Pandora please keep your coldplay out of my playlists # altitude is a disgusting misspelling of latitude # @chriseaster The best part of the story was the last 4 lines: “Must have been a slow work day, huh?” # Thank you post office staff for being rude, and for making fun of me. I really appreciate it. # why is my first thought “fight” when my body is already in “flight”?? # @ctshryock @charlesmhudson For fear of repercussions of people literally going “postal” I am keeping… » Read More