Whisker-tribute Wednesday, November 28, 2007

For those that don’t know, I’ve been participating in Whiskerino (a beard growing “competition”) since the beginning of November. Whiskerino has a sister site, Vaginarino, that does parodies / tributes of photos from Whiskerino.

I am very excited that one of my photos got a tribute:

Whiskerino Original Vaginarino Tribute

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Software Licenses Wednesday, November 28, 2007

In trying to decide which (open source) license to use for Yark, I wanted to see what other projects that I respect were using.

Here are some (listed alphabetically):

So the most popular options seem to be:

I get a feeling the cool kids are going for the MIT License these days.

Update: I believe I’m going to go with the MIT License. This page helped me understand things a bit better (via).

Another Update (2008-08-05): Now I’m considering using Apache 2.0 because of this (via).

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Web App Ideas: #1 - LocalBean Sunday, October 21, 2007

LocalBean Logo

Time to try to stem the brain crack addiction–I’m going to get some of my ideas for web apps into the world. If 37signals can do it, so can I.

If someone wants to take any of these ideas and run, so be it. I guess this might also be a cry for the lazy web. A note of credit back here would be nice. Please ask permission if you want to use any of the names (especially since I probably own the domain already).

Idea #1: LocalBean - find local coffee shops where you are.

When I’m traveling (or moving to a new place), I like to find non-chain coffee shops to hang out and leach some wi-fi. This isn’t as easy as it might sound. Sometimes even the locals don’t know where cool coffee shops are.

The idea for this app is to have an easy way to type in a ZIP code or otherwise browse to find independent coffee shops in the area. Users would be able to both enter new shops and rate existing ones. Photos would be pulled in by Flickr photos tagged a specific way. Shops could also be categorized / tagged to show what kind of goods were offered: specialty coffee, food, local roasting, etc.

An iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version would be really helpful–probably more so than the full-sized version.

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Thinking out loud about cameras Saturday, October 20, 2007

Here’s what I’m thinking about:

Camera $442.00
Lens 76.30
Bag 69.95
Memory Card 29.41
UV Filter 7.09
UV Filter 6.70
Extra Battery Pack 39.34
Monopod? 22.16
$685.86

All almost as much as just the body of an XTi ($677.00).

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My business cards, let me show you them. Thursday, September 27, 2007

After a discussion with Aaron K, I decided it was time to order some MOO cards as business cards. It’s just too easy, especially with their format guide.

Because of popular request, I will show you them:

MOO Business Cards

The photographs (some of them you may have seen on another website), are from the USGS. Got to love images that are in the public domain.

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