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Viddler API via Perl
Recently, while doing some consulting work, I started working with an new online video platform called Viddler. Much like YouTube, Viddler is a web application, built around videos, that allows one to upload and share on the web. However, unlike YouTube, Viddler also provides a great deal of features for…
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Apple iPad Preorders Begin
First published: 12th of March 2010 for Technorati As announced last week Apple has begun taking pre-orders from United States customers for its upcoming Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G model iPad. Customers are being limited to pre-ordering no more than two devices, but Apple is including free delivery where…
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iPad Sales Set to Start April 3
First published: 5th of March 2010 for Technorati Today Apple has announced that their recently introduced iPad tablet will be available for purchase starting Saturday April 3. While this initial release will only include the Wi-Fi model in the Unites States, Apple is planning to have the Wi-Fi and…
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Old Programmers Don't Die, They Just Fade Away
A few days ago I came across this Infoworld article entitled "The painful truth about age discrimination in tech" via Slashdot and have been wanting to comment on it ever since. While I have had no reason to cry foul on any company I've ever interviewed for, I have to…
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Amazon Looking to Add Touchscreen to Kindle?
First published: 3rd of February 2010 for Technorati The New York Times is reporting that Amazon has acquired Touchco, a small New York-based start-up specializing in touchscreen technology and is planning to incorporate the company's six employees and technology into its Kindle hardware division, named Lab126, which is located…
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Contemplating the iPad
Now that the dust has settled a bit and everyone else has either praised or condemned Apple's latest hardware offering let us take a look at a few interesting points... The Beginning of the End Or The End of the Beginning? A number of people see the end of open,…
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Apple's iPad Tablet Includes Cool New Apps and Features
First published: 27th of January 2010 for Technorati Calling it "way better than a laptop, way better than a phone," Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled his company's long-awaited iPad tablet-style multi-touch device Wednesday. The device weighs just 1.5 pounds, has a 9.7-inch color display and a custom built dual…
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The Long Road Ahead for Apple's Tablet
First published: 26th of January 2010 for Technorati Apple is set to announce a "major new product" tomorrow, according to CEO Steve Jobs. Most anticipate the new product to be a mobile, tablet-like computing device, something akin to an iPhone's bigger brother. So meaningful is the new device that…
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Apple's iTablet is About Mobile Productivity
Now that Apple has officially sent out invitations to various members of the media to "Come see our latest creation" next week, January 27th, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, let us consider what exactly that creation will be. Apple's Invite iTablet iTablet, iSlate, uSlate,…
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Mark McGwire Admits To Steroid Use
First published: 11th of January 2010 for Technorati Mark McGwire today released a statement to The Associated Press that he did in fact use steroids during his 15 year professional playing career in baseball, including his single-season home run record 1998 season. Heavy speculation that McGwire used steroids or…
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Y2K, C2Net, HKS and Red Hat
In November of 1999 I had over a year of work as a professional programmer under my belt working for C2Net Software. It had been a bit of a bumpy ride, by the end of 1999 I had already been hired, laid-off, hired as a consultant and rehired as an…
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Apple Tablet Rumors Heat Up
First published: 23rd of December 2009 for Technorati The Interweb has been ablaze with tablet rumors for quite some time now and according to a recent Financial Times article, "Apple is preparing an announcement next month that many anticipate will be the official unveiling..." Despite the swirling rumors, Apple…
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AOL Time Warner Split, Leaves AOL Behind
First published: 10th of December 2009 for Technorati In 2000 with a staggering market capitalization, AOL purchased Time Warner for $164 billion, with an eye towards delivering Time Warner's unique content to the AOL masses. AOL Market Value Chart by Jay Yarow at The Business Insider Today most agree…
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@technabob, Look Mario Candy!
If you've ever come across the gadget website Technabob, you probably already know of their twin loves of all things Mario and all things Japanese. And frankly who can blame them? Some of the best oddest items out there can only be found in the land of the rising…
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Atlas V Launch of Intelsat 14
I captured the following video of a nighttime Atlas V rocket launch I witnessed, along side my father, while in Central Florida on Thanksgiving vacation with my family. Note that I've modified the audio a bit to try an enhance the interesting bits while muting distracting background noises. That is,…
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Vacation Message
Thanks for stopping by. I am out on vacation in Florida until November 28th. During this time I will have little access to the Internet and will not be adding new entries until my return. If you require immediate satisfaction, relax and enjoy this little slideshow from my last trip…
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Google's Chrome OS in 2010
First published: 20th of November 2009 for Technorati Yesterday Google hosted a small technical introduction to its new Chrome Operating System (OS), which is scheduled for release on new netbooks by the end of 2010. Google's vision for Chrome is to build on the concept of the Web as…
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A Stepped Up Remote Apache Monitor in Perl
Back in September I outline a simple Perl script to remotely monitor the status of various web servers I manage and report on any failures. One shortcoming of the script is that it has no memory of the previous state of the websites listed for polling. Thus, once a site…
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Happy Birthday Apache (Software Foundation)
First published: 3rd of November 2009 for Technorati     (Photo from Flickr user jaaronfarr) This week the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is holding its annual US conference in Northern California for all things Apache. As part of the get together conference attendees, as well as those elsewhere this…
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My First Exposure to Apache, A Personal Reflection
Technorati just published an article of mine on this week's 10th Anniversary celebration of the Apache Software Foundation. Alas, given current commitments - consulting gigs and an upcoming family getaway - I couldn't bring myself to justify a trip out to the Bay Area this week to participate. So…
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2010: The Year of the Mobile Gadget
First published: 28th of October 2009 for Technorati In the movie "2010", there is a sequence of opening scenes explaining Dr. Heywood Floyd's (played by Roy Scheider) decision and preparation for his trip to Jupiter to personally investigate The Monolith, including a scene of Dr. Floyd working on the…
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iTablet Price a Sticky Question
Update: Apple has finally made public their new tablet, the iPad. Details about their annoucement, including pricing can be found in Apple's iPad Tablet Includes Cool New Apps and Features Apparently someone at Retrevo.com had the same thought I did in regards to what would be the ideal price for the…
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Adding Government to the Social Web
First published: 13th of October 2009 for Technorati In part because of Barack Obama's success in leveraging the Internet during his Presidential Campaign and in part because of the general success of "Web 2.0 companies", there has been an explosion of discussions on how one can leverage the growing…
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Push the Button Frank
Image via Wikipedia Well his name might not be Frank, but someone pushed the big red button on Technorati today. For those who are unaware, Technorati, the "search engine for blogs" has been around about as long as there have been blogs to search for. In fact, according to Wikipedia…
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My Social Graphs
One of the cheap thrills of social networking is the ability to map out a social graph of one's own friends and family. I recently came across this overview on Mashable of a couple of nice visualization apps and well, I couldn't resist..... My Facebook Network via Nexus, Click…
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Elsewhere

Saturday
  • Paul tweeted, "Viddler API via Perl - Recently, while doing some consulting work, I started working with an new online video platf... http://ow.ly/16NntT"
  • Paul tweeted, "Hmm, seems like a normal day to me... http://ow.ly/1iiRp"
Friday
  • Paul tweeted, "Apple iPad Preorders Begin - Apple is taking preorders for its highly anticipated iPad tablet via the company's web... http://ow.ly/16N4xY"
  • Paul tweeted, "I have accumulated 757741 credits on SETI@home and am currently averaging: 489 per day, http://ow.ly/19HM4"
  • Paul tweeted, "RT @justinvincent: Your Computer Really Is a Part of You http://bit.ly/9Wo8GM"
  • Paul tweeted, "RT @trarticles: Now On @technorati! Google's Chrome OS On Schedule, According To Schmidt http://bit.ly/bt3Ghn"
  • Paul tweeted, "Apple iPad Preorders Begin - Apple is taking preorders for its highly anticipated iPad tablet via the company's web... http://ow.ly/16MNz8"
  • Paul tweeted, "www.odysseytitle.com reports OK"
  • Paul tweeted, "www.weinstein.org reports OK"
  • Paul tweeted, "pdw.weinstein.org reports OK"
  • Paul submitted the link Apple iPad Preorders Begin - Technorati Technology
  • Paul tweeted, "www.odysseytitle.com reports Can't connect to www.odysseytitle.com:80 (connect: Connection refused)"
  • Paul tweeted, "www.weinstein.org reports Can't connect to pdw.weinstein.org:80 (connect: Connection refused)"
  • Paul tweeted, "pdw.weinstein.org reports Can't connect to pdw.weinstein.org:80 (connect: Connection refused)"
Thursday
  • Paul tweeted, "I have accumulated 756629 credits on SETI@home and am currently averaging: 436 per day, http://ow.ly/19HM4"
  • Paul tweeted, "Hopefully w/out a large impact on responsiveness or battery RT @appleinsider: iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking http://ow.ly/1h6Cr"
Wednesday
  • Paul tweeted, "The Secret Origin of Windows: A quarter century ago, some were doubtful it would ever ship: http://ow.ly/1gIXh"
  • Paul tweeted, "RT @orbittracker: Hang in there folks! The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030 http://ow.ly/1gzMu"
  • Paul covets iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I
Tuesday Monday
  • Paul tweeted, "I think I recall playing this game long ago...RT @technabob: 8-bit new york city map http://bit.ly/dywKJ3"
  • Paul tweeted, "I have accumulated 755538 credits on SETI@home and am currently averaging: 434 per day, http://ow.ly/19HM4"
  • Paul tweeted, "A nice video of "The Anatomy of Apple Design", but what with the total lack of an Apple //e? http://s-a.cc/JPQ34"
Mar 06
  • Paul covets Weber 1361001 22.5-Inch One-Touch Platinum Charcoal Grill
    • Mar 05
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    • Paul tweeted, "iPad Sales Set to Start April 3 - Pre-ordering for Apple's new mobile device will start March 12. http://ow.ly/16JmRi"
    • Paul tweeted, "I have accumulated 754476 credits on SETI@home and am currently averaging: 474 per day, http://ow.ly/19HM4"
    • Paul tweeted, "Shocking! Apple announces date for iPad and Engadget is leaked news on MS Courier RT@MarkJablonowski: Wow. I want one! http://ow.ly/1eOQZ"
    • Paul tweeted, "RT @technoratitech: iPad Sales Set to Start April 3 http://dlvr.it/65R3"
    • Paul tweeted, ""How many other devices do we connect to our networks...how many folks have properly secured and segmented...networks?" http://ow.ly/1eHTm"
    • Paul dugg the link iPad Sales Set to Start April 3
    Mar 04
    • Paul tweeted, "Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 (via Slashdot) http://s-a.cc/JPQ35"
    • Paul tweeted, "Large deployments of mobile devices for everyday use? Yes! Mobile devices for development/engineering? No. http://s-a.cc/JPQ36"
    Mar 03
    • Paul tweeted, "RT @airandspace: Today in 1969: manned Apollo 9 mission launches. 1st spacecraft in full lunar mission configuration. http://ow.ly/1dwfm"
    Mar 02
    • Paul tweeted, "I have accumulated 752776 credits on SETI@home and am currently averaging: 424 per day, http://ow.ly/19HM4"
    • Paul tweeted, "@dylanparrin I feel your pain, just finished doing some Javascript debugging for IE6/7. But the issues is fixed and it's time to go home!"

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