Who ordered the scrambled brains?

PlaceHolders and UserControls (i.e. Template-Lite UserControls)

Most of you will want to skip this technical addition to my otherwise prolific and interesting personal chronicles. (Ok ok I admit I’ve been way too consumed with professional goals over the last two years to blog. I’m motivated, almost desperately so, to strike while the iron’s hot and thus have had to reallocate my [...]

How to print MSDN Magazine articles

I almost died trying to figure out how to print an article off the vapid publishing engine that is the msdn website today. Firefox won’t print beyond the first page. IE won’t print the collapsed regions. Saving the page to a file and editing the styling on the collapsed regions seems to [...]

Temporary Digs

I’ve been meaning to overhaul my blog/web presence for some time. It’s been a busy summer but I hope to start it next month. In the meantime, I’ve been getting into the swing of “lifestreaming“, mainly with twitter, a bunch of bookmarklets for some link sharing services (digg, Google Reader, delicious), and last.fm. [...]

Proud to be an American

Marine’s graphic interview describes killing of prisoners in Iraq “Inalienable rights” for “all” men? Yeah, we Americans might have justified our independence from foreign aggressors on that moral precept, but nowadays we prefer moral convenience, i.e. ethnocentric efficiency. When the situation gets too morally difficult, we crank up the volume of “America the Beautiful” [...]

Target 350

Hello family/friend/acquaintance, Please take a moment to read this: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-mckibben11-2008may11,0,4443965.story I hope you have the fortitude and human compassion both to understand the gravity of this problem, and to assume ownership of it. It is my view that doing all you can to conserve energy and to reduce your carbon footprint (the amount of carbon dioxide generated [...]

One giant leap for a state…

…but one small step for mankind.

I got a new car!!!

It’s a new 2007 Audi A3! 200-horsepower, 6-speed manual transmission. Black exterior, black interior. Airbags galore. 10 speakers. Four doors (five if you count the hatchback). And four wheels (five if you count the steering wheel). (2005 model pictured.) All those previous posts about getting a new car were not mere [...]

Damn Press Coverage

Lotsa press! Having Fun on Web Video Before They Make the Rules (NY Times blog!) Press Release Barnett Launches MyDamnChannel (Variety) A YouTube for VIPs (Time) ‘My Damn Channel’ Launches Entertainment Studio and New Media Platform for Top Talent (PR Newsire) Hollywood execs launch web exclusive video channel (Guardian Unlimited blog) Damn Cursed with Content (Hollywood Reporter) And some interesting blog coverage: Hollywood still [...]

MyDamnChannel launch!!

Two months of blood, sweat, and tears. Sixty-plus people involved. Countless monkeys killed for research. All to bring you: THIS!! My Damn Channel is our latest project, in cooperation with Big Fat Brain and Rob Barnett Media, which aims to be a video portal for big name Hollywood folk. I’ve been so [...]

In the blue corner…

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/7/10/64044/7089 Why didn’t the media do it’s job with the Iraq war? Why isn’t the media doing it’s job? Why is the media in bed with politicians and corporations? I’m only awake enough at the moment to ask the questions, not ponder them. Gut reaction is the influence of greed at the [...]