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Contributed by Justin on 3/18/09 11:40PM

I'm tempted to try and re-engineer this site to something similar to the new Facebook news feed. It would pull in my various "feeds" across my various accounts (Twitter, flickr, digg, Google Reader) and then just display them in chronological order as I do things. It's much easier to send a tweet or digg something than it is to sit down and write a post.

On the flip side, I don't want to lose a lot of the great content I've accumulated on this site since 2000. Be a shame to get rid of that. I've currently got a test site setup running Wordpress that is pulling in my twitter updates. Not a huge fan of Wordpress though, because it's based around logging into a site and creating a post. I think I'm done with that. I just want to interact with the web during a normal day, but be able to capture all of those interactions in one place. Facebook is ok, but generally I've grown to dislike that site more and more. It'd be nice to have a standalone website doing what I described.

Might give me an excuse to start programming with asynchronous technologies (Gearman, MemcacheQ, etc.) to have an automatically updated website.

Thoughts?

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MANtage Weekend
Contributed by Justin on 2/17/09 11:33PM

Taking the train down to visit Gordon in DC tomorrow. Flying probably would have been cheaper, but with the hassle of getting to the airport, parking, etc., the train just seemed to make more sense. Will take about as long as driving too, roughly 5 hours, which isn't too bad.

Should be fun.

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Sync Google Contacts and Calendars with iPhone
Contributed by Justin on 2/9/09 2:25PM

Not sure how I missed this, but you can set up google as an exchange server to sync your contacts and calendars with your iphone/ipod touch automagically.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&ctx=sibling

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E-Trade Baby Outtakes
Contributed by Justin on 2/3/09 10:58PM

http://www.etrade.com/baby. My favorite is still the one during the Superbowl.

What? I can't flex the golden pipes?

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Superbowl
Contributed by Justin on 1/31/09 3:38PM

GO STEELERS!

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