The Quest to watch Hulu on TV with an HD DVR

October 2, 2008

The world needs a comprehensive internet connected set-top box.

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StumbleRead Feature Ideas

August 5, 2008

Image via Wikipedia I’ve been trying to prioritize the requests I’ve had for StumbleRead. Thanks to everybody who has provided feedback. 1. Support for “Hide” (as defined by FriendFeed) 2. There is a bug when opening articles (for example from the New York Times) where the article takes over the StumbleRead frame. I’m not 100% [...]

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Kausay Wasi Clinic – Real Magic in Peru’s Sacred Valley

August 2, 2008

I wrote previously about my trip to Machu Picchu when I visited Peru in May. Breathtaking as it was, it wasn’t the highlight of the trip. The highlight was seeing the work of the team at Kausay Wasi Clinic in Qoya. My father in-law has seen hundreds of patients with the team there over the [...]

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What next for Lookmarks?

August 2, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Lookmarks is my simple link sharing site that died under the weight of link spammers (both bots and humans). I’ve been trying to think of a way to re-work the site to capture the enthusiasm of all those unexpected “customers”. I’ve got the site half-way ported to Google App Engine, and I’m [...]

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Common Ruby Regex Patterns

July 27, 2008

My earlier (rather lame) post on Ruby Regex’s (Regular Expressions) is getting some Google love, so I thought I would supplement it with some more useful information. If you are searching for Ruby Regex help, my guess is you are looking for… Validating an email address with a Ruby Regex Something simple like this next [...]

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Watching Hulu on TV (how to watch internet video on your TV)

July 27, 2008

This is a follow up post to my earlier post about watching internet video (Hulu and YouTube) on a TV. Since I still haven’t found a set top box that I can recommend, I thought it would be helpful to describe how to hook your PC or laptop up to your television. If you have [...]

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What is the big whoop about Facebook Friend Connect?

July 24, 2008

Image by Abdallah ♫ via Flickr I don’t understand how Facebook’s new Friend Connect is substantively different from their pre-platform API functionality. External Web sites already have the ability to allow users to sign in to Facebook and retrieve their friends and profile from an external site. Friend connect just appears to be some better [...]

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Changes to FriendFeed Python Library for use with App Engine

July 22, 2008

UPDATE: you should definitely go with Benjamin Golub‘s Python FriendFeed library for App Engine (fftogo). It is cleaner than mine and includes some undocumented API calls (like fetch_entry). I had to make some minor modifications to the FriendFeed python library to get it to work with Google App Engine. App Engine does not support out [...]

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Special character hacks for Gmail addresses

July 22, 2008

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday, my co-worker Matt told me about some Gmail tricks I hadn’t heard of. Well, one is a trick, and one is just “nice to know”. Gmail will ignore (some, all?) punctuation in email addresses. So bob.smith@gmail.com is the same as bobsmith@gmail.com. (That’s the nice to know part). Furthermore, text after a [...]

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Addicted to FriendFeed? Try StumbleRead.

July 22, 2008

Image via Wikipedia I got hooked on FriendFeed and wanted to create a different Web based interface. I wanted to be able to scan through several posts, open their links automatically, comment and “like” quickly, and have the list auto-update to show new posts. For some reason, I haven’t found a desktop client that I [...]

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