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Here we go again. Rather than actually write some new content for this site I've gone ahead and once again rebuilt the site. Changing the underlying engine that powers it from Drupal 7 to Sculpin.io. ...

If running an SNES emulator on my iPad and using my iPhone as a controller isn’t a compelling enough reason for me to Jailbreak I’m not sure there will ever be one. More info here...

Challenge, mastery, and making a contribution. This stellar animation portrays exactly what motivates me to work on open-source projects....

Headed to San Francisco for DrupalCon in a couple of weeks. I’ve never been to CA before and am getting excited....

Yesterday afternoon I was given the opportunity to talk about some of the new image handling features in Drupal 7 at DrupalCamp Chicago. Overall the presentation went great, though it was a lot to cra...

A rebuttal of Chris Wilson’s article on slate.com exclaiming the use of Drupal on http://whitehouse.gov as poor choice of messaging by our government. Incase you haven’t heard already whi...

“Guinness World Records honored Schulte with a certificate last week for being the fastest person to use a yo-yo to knock coins off the ears of each of 15 people.” – via Really?!...

Might have to get a copy of this game just to checkout all the gorgeous animation. Stunning!...

Yes, it is about time. Find out more...

Re-enable the blue background loading progress indicator in the address field of Safari 4 beta. I’ve been using Safari 4 beta for a while now, and so far really liking it. It took a while to g...

It’s zombies, what else do you want? Jabs at current politicians and political policies, check. Cheeky, check. Hard to put down? Check. Amazon.com ...

I’ve been playing with the new Espresso text editor from Mac Rabbit a bit for the last few days, not sure that I’ll be switching from Textmate yet, but for a 1.0 release Espresso is lookin...

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As an avid Drupal user and developer I often find myself poking around on a website trying to figure out if this particular site was built using Drupal or not. Sometimes it is really easy to tell, th...

I would really rather not confess how much time I’ve spent over the last few years looking at Google Earth, and Google Street view. It is always fun when you come across a gem like this one tho...

After listing to incoming President Obama’s inauguration address this morning I thought it would be fun to compare what he had to say with what outgoing President Bush said in his 2005 address. ...

I’ve decided that I’m going to try and keep track of every time I eat ice cream for the next year. Then, at the end of the year I can create a year-in-ice-cream annual report. Katy and I ...

The New York Times has a pretty cool piece up about the biggest buzzwords from 2008. I’m kind of surprised Web 2.0 doesn’t make the list. Though excited that the word “Joe” did...

Badass print campaign for the classic word game Scrabble. Check it out...

I hadn’t heard of the upcoming movie “9” by Shane Acker until I came across the trailer this morning, but now I’m pretty excited. It looks phenomenal. I don’t know much ...

I just read this article in the Star Tribune about a bicyclist who was held up at gun point on the Hiawatha trail, and his experience. link The article itself was sad, though expected. Bicyclists in ...

President Elect Barack Obama’s website “change.gov“http://change.gov/about/copyright_policy, and all the content contained therein is now available under the Creative Commons License...

Animator Michele D’Auria has put together a great little animated film for Honda. The voice over is a little obnoxious but the visuals make it all worth it. And it has bicycles in it. Can’...

Back on snow for the first time this season at Wild Mountain and as a whole it was better than I anticipated. Read about the boards I demoed and what I liked and disliked about each of them. Back on ...

Google just added the ability to customize your own search results, including adding/removing things from the results list, and re-ordering the results based on your own preference. And, top top it a...

Some of the most mind boggling photos of the California wildfires I’ve seen. This one in particular gets my attention, something you would expect in a fallout video game or a post-apocalypse mov...

It’s like Guitar Hero, but on a bicycle. Complete with explosions, fire, cheering crowds, and little blinky lights. Check it out...

Checkout this killer add. Imaginary Forces & Believe Media have teamed with renowned comic artist Alex Maleev to create this stunning spot for Target. Unforunatly the spot is advertising for Chris...

I like numbers, no surprise there. Because of this infatuation with large amounts of statistical information displayed in interactive and well designed ways it should also come as no surprise that on ...

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So here is a cool trick I didn’t know about before. Ever wanted to know if a site you’re looking at was built using PHP? Just append this query string to the URL of the site in question, ...

If you know me, you probably know that I listen to a lot of music. Check out my activity stream Up until now however I’ve never really written about the music that I like. So lets see if we ...

joe: http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2008-10-16-big-burger_N.htm?csp=34 christian: that’s like eating 30 regular burgers christian: That’s like eating two babies. ...

The new Hells Kitchen opened in downtown Minneapolis on Monday and I met Katy there for a drink before heading over to First-Avenue to see Broken Social Scene. Hells Kitchen now occupies the space...

I’m sure you’ve done it before, everyone does. You’re bored at work or sitting around home with nothing to do so you punch your name into Google and see what comes up. I usually do ...

This American Life just recently put out a very interesting program that goes into detail about how our economy went from boring to very, very interesting almost overnight. Check it out Look out, bec...

I’ve spent countless hours/minutes changing the permissions on directories after transferring them from our development server to our production server. For security reasons chmod -R is just a ...

Last weekend I attended the Fashion Bike Ride put on by local Minneapolis designer Anna Lee of Ruby3 with Katy and my sister. Alice had brought her video camera along and the two of us were taking tu...

As a programmer I can’t help myself, it’s an engrained reaction to start every foray into unknown territory with a simple “Hello World!” The simple “Hello Word!” a...

Middle of the afternoon and as per usual I’m plugging away on the development of this or that website. Nothing special, in fact if I remember correctly it had been kind of a slow day in internet...

These photos are of an installation I recently completed at the University of MN as part of a larger installation titled “Sensorama”. Although the gallery was only open for a couple ...

So it’s Friday once again, which means Saturday and Sunday are just around the corner. Combine that with the fact that the school semester is quickly coming to a close, and it comes as no surpri...

I was over at my dad’s last night, doing a little pre-birthday celebration, and my little sister Emma gave me two of what are undoubtedly the coolest birthday cards I have ever received. This ...

One of the things I love about gmail is the great spam filter. As long as I remember to mark things that get through the filter as spam, there’s rarely anything that gets through it. In fact, t...

!/assets/files/57.jpg (TLH1)! !/assets/files/58.jpg (TLH2)! !/assets/files/59.jpg (TLH3)! !/assets/files/60.jpg (TLH4)! When you're as big of a fan of snow as I am, there's never such a thing as ...

When you’re as big of a fan of snow as I am, there’s never such a thing as to much snow. In fact, Minneapolis, which is known to be one of the “harsher” places to wint...