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Archive for April 2006

Sing the National Anthem Anyway You Want

Friday, April 28th, 2006 Posted in Politics | No Comments »

In the midst of fierce debate over immigration reform, a group of Latino recording artists have recorded their own version of the national anthem as a show of solidarity. "Nuestro Himno" ("Our Anthem") has a Latin arrangement and mostly Spanish ...

Youth Group Hockey

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 Posted in Sporting | No Comments »

Ah, the video dorkiness continues. This time around it's a quick 10-second video of youth group floor hockey from a few weeks back when one of the leaders managed to bean a student in the head. And we caught it ...

More Video: Ode to Facial Hair

Monday, April 24th, 2006 Posted in Internet | No Comments »

Coincidentally, after I explored the world of online video, I discoverd that my west coast friend Josh had already given it a try, uploading his LED Throwies video to YouTube. I still think Vimeo is the nicer of the video ...

Stupid Spammers

Monday, April 24th, 2006 Posted in Blogging | No Comments »

Just when you think they're gone the spam keeps on coming. My server was clogged up again today with spam--you may have noticed the server 500 error. I've now disabled comments and trackbacks, so we'll see what that accomplishes. Seems ...

Joining the Online Video Craze

Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 Posted in Internet | No Comments »

I'm finally joining the online video craze. Today I finished editing a video of Speak and Mazie after a late spring snowstorm. I put the video together using iMovie and included music from the Supertones. But the big question was ...

Spammers Shutting Down Blogosphere

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 Posted in Internet | No Comments »

Apparently I'm not the only one getting buried alive in spam. I've shut off the comments, though yesterday it was trackbacks that killed the site. I'm not even sure what to do anymore. I'm too busy to put much time ...

500 Server Doh

Saturday, April 8th, 2006 Posted in Internet | No Comments »

If you've had problems accessing my site lately you can thank spammers. My site has been getting hit with attack after attack after attack, and every time it hangs the server and you get nothing but a 500 server error. ...

37signals’ $120,000 Book

Thursday, April 6th, 2006 Posted in Internet | 2 Comments »

37signals is a web 2.0 company behind several successful web applications. They're also professional, successful, published authors. About a month ago they self-published a PDF-only book about their software philosophy, Getting Real, which they sold only online for $19 (you ...