writer/coder

While working on News Mixer and another django project, I've refactored all the facebook connect code Brian Boyer and I wrote into a separate application. I've opened a google code page for it. I figured if it's useful to me, it would be useful to others. It's a simple thing really. ...

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Tonight the group leaves for Delhi after traveling through the towns and cities of Madhaya Pradesh. It was great country, friendly people, and only a small bit of the hustle and crush of Mumbai. We saw buddhist and hindu caves, hills carved into forts and magnificent palaces. We stayed in some beautiful places, ...

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A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a neat little reading applet called spreeder.com. You copy and paste text into the applet, and then it would flash each word at you one-by-one. The idea being that it forces you to read faster, teaches you speed read or whatever. To be honest ...

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The Sun-Times published the names, salaries and positions of 145,000 Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago employees on their website this weekend. The names and salaries are online in the form of a simple searchable database. The reporter published a couple articles with analysis of the massive database. One article talked ...

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Looks like the new Tribune editor, Gerould Kern, is working on "saving" the newspaper. The reported redesign takes the news off the front page and buries it in the second section. Whats more important for the front page of a newspaper? "Consumer-oriented and entertainment features." According to the article at Crain's ChicagoBusiness.com, ...

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