Xefer Twitter Visualization

by Jamie Thingelstad on July 1, 2009

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This graphic can generally be put in the pile of visualizations of stuff that isn’t important, but the display is cool. This tool from Xefer looks at your Twitter behavior distribution over days of the week and time.

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Happily, it seems I don’t use Twitter in my sleep.

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iPhone 3.0 Phone Label

by Jamie Thingelstad on June 29, 2009

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This is a little change in the iPhone 3.0 release that I hadn’t seen anyone mention. When you change the type of a phone number in Address Book on the iPhone you’ve always been able to set custom labels in addition to the built-in ones. However, there was a new one added in 3.0 for “iPhone” (see 2nd choice).

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First Shot at Homemade Ice Cream

June 23, 2009

Cooking was definitely the action for this years Father’s Day gifts. Tammy signed me up for a couple more of the Grillmaster cooking classes at Kitchen Window. Mazie got me something I’ve wanted to play around with for a while, an ice cream maker. We gave it a go for the first time tonight with a basic vanilla ice cream recipe. Mazie put the ingredients together and I did the measuring, we then poured it into the machine and started it up.

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Peppa Pig DVD Covers

June 11, 2009

I find it frustrating when I cannot find good quality, high-resolution album or DVD cover art on the Internet. So, when I have to resort to scanning I like to post it to share the effort with others. Here are the scans to two Peppa Pig DVD’s: Cold Winter Day and Stars.

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Learning to Make Sausage

June 8, 2009

Kent and I try our hand at making our own sausage at the North House Folk School in Grand Marais. The video shows the process of working your own sausage all the way through.

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Interviewing Your Kid?

June 5, 2009

Mazie is about to turn 4 years old and she is bubbling with excitement about it. She tells me regularly how many days until her birthday, and that she will be able to jump higher and possibly grow several inches when she turns 4.

I’ve been thinking that it would be really fun to setup the video camera and ask her some questions. My idea is to put together a set of questions that would stay pretty constant and to do a video like this on her birthday each year, until she tells me to bugger off. :-)

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Unordered Lists to Comma Separated List

June 5, 2009

An exploration into using CSS to turn an unordered list into a properly formatted comma separated list of values.

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ColdSnap “Art of Seeing” Photo Workshop

May 18, 2009

This weekend, thanks to my awesome wife, I got to spend Saturday and Sunday at a photography workshop. The workshop was led by John Gregor of ColdSnap Photography. It was a two day workshop focused on composition as well as technique. We started both days shooting over by Lake Harriet in the Peace Garden and Rose Garden and finished the second half of the day with seminars held at the REI in Bloomington.

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Big Green Egg Tandoor!

May 18, 2009

A very successful first attempt at using the Big Green Egg as a tandoor oven. Very good eats!

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Why do Cyclists Tweet?

May 13, 2009

There is a secondary question that people have asked about extending something like VeloTweets into other sports. I think it is possible that could work, but I think that cycling has some unique characteristics that make it particularly well suited for Twitter. Through Twitter the peloton can send two really clear messages.

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