Archive for February, 2007
Artist: Jeff Tweedy Song: The Thanks I Get Performed live on 10/27/2006 at Foellinger Auditorium, Urbana, IL [mp3]http://www.travisj.org/files/thethanksiget20061027.mp3[/mp3] [ READ MORE ]
We’ve had a very productive weekend. Rachel has been settling into “her room”, which left me time to work on my forum. The code is coming along very nicely, if I do say so myself. I’ll write more about the forum soon. [ READ MORE ]
Inara (from Firefly – we’ll pretend I didn’t need to tell you where she was from) was on NBC’s mega-hit, Las Vegas tonight. While verifying on IMDb I noticed she was also in the Swarley episode of HIMYM. Digital five! [ READ MORE ]
It’s Rachel’s birthday today and in her honor I am “unveiling” two super-secret websites. The first, travisj.org, and the second, mechroboticon.com. While they appear to be the same site, with closer inspection you will notice that they are hosted on different servers (assuming you know how to use traceroute, whois or even ping – ha). [ READ MORE ]
Ever since getting my new camera I have been pretty into Flickr again. I haven’t taken many photos, but that’s another story. I was taking another look at the Flickr API today and noticed that it now responds in JSON and PHP. Other web services at Yahoo! have been doing this for a while now, [ READ MORE ]
Swap-bot was mentioned in the February 2007 issue of Quick and Simple. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we have been mentioned in print. I wrote a little more and have a scan of the mention over at the Swap-bot blog. [ READ MORE ]
Rachel got me a iPod Nano with the Nike+ adapter for Christmas this year and eager to try it out I joined a challenge with some coworkers. It was a challenge to see who could first run 25 miles. This warm, 26 degree morning, I finally completed my 25 miles and won the challenge. The final [ READ MORE ]
On Monday of this week we publicly launched our small to medium sized web publisher application, RMX Direct. I’ve been meaning to write about this since Monday, but haven’t found the motivation since my readers are either coworkers or family. To celebrate our accomplishment of releasing RMX Direct, all of us developers hit Southtowne Lanes for [ READ MORE ]