Every night at 9pm my Macbook fires up Photo Booth to take a snapshot and import it into iPhoto. I’ve been doing this since December 19th, 2007 and have accumulated 275 photos (some days…
Ditching My Daily Snapshot Script for DailyBooth.com
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The Importance of a Unique Avatar
An avatar or profile picture is one of the first things people recognize and allows them to immediately establish some sort of connection with you. It acts like your personal logo to brand…
A Twitter hole lets you Google protected tweets
So now when someone follows me with protected tweets I can just google “site:twitter.com/<username>” to see if I want to follow back instead of just ignoring them.
Note: I don’t follow people with protected streams unless I know them in real life. I want to know what I can expect from following you and your avatar and short bio are a very small part of that.
UPDATE: TechCrunch has a much better explanation about this “hole that probably isn’t” I’ve seen some of the exact things TC points out as I’ve dug into a few person’s protected tweets. TechCrunch reporting > LA Times reporting
One Free Year of the Best AntiVirus Software I’ve Ever Attacked
Before I begin, this offer may become bogus in the next week. Until then, I have to vouch for a product I’ve tried in the past and absolutely loved.
I follow a few discount hunters…
One Free Year of the Best AntiVirus Software I’ve Ever Attacked
Getting Older
We used to not go out until 10:30pm and now we’re home by then. A lavish night out in college cost $30 and now we get appetizers and a few beers for the same price. I’m not saying it’s bad, it’s just different. And by different I mean I’ll feel like a king in Bloomington this weekend!
Saturday Night iTunes Genius Mix. Definite keeper!
Perl Cheat Sheet
Did you put too much whiskey in it? You always put too much whiskey in it and then you end up getting drunk!
Overheard somewhere in Oregon
Jordan remembered scoring around 20 points in a row late in a game to pull out a win, which was followed by a conversation with Bulls assistant Tex Winter.
“Tex reminded me that there’s no ‘I’ in team,” Jordan said. “And I looked back at Tex, I said, ‘There’s ‘I’ in win.’ So whichever way you want it.”
One day you might look up and see me playing a game at 50. Don’t laugh. Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.
– Michael Jordan
Max Beatty 