Damon Clinkscales' Stumblings

Intelligence Test

I’ve spent an hour on three different evenings trying to solve this.  Tonight, I broke through...

Mar 31st

How Long Will It Take To Transfer My...

Me: How long will it take me to upload my entire photo library to a web host?
Google: [shrug]
Me: (28 311 552 KB) / (67 (KB / s))
Google: 4.89074627 days
Me: Thanks. Glad to know it'll finally finish this weekend.

Mar 31st

Fresh Billz

Mar 30th

John McCain Comes Out For Gays

Mar 30th

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy,...”
— Benjamin Franklin

Mar 30th

“Akismet hates me.  Every time I post a comment on a blog...”
— Damon Clinkscales

Mar 30th

Ruby Hoedown 2007 - Raleigh, NC - August

Mar 30th

Easter Egg in Google Maps: Swim Across The...

Mar 30th

Semicolons in REST URLs dropped in Rails Edge

Mar 29th

Ruby On Rails™ - Trademark filing by DHH

Mar 29th

Watch

The Paradox of Choice, a fascinating talk at Google by Barry Schwartz (via Smythe)

Mar 28th

Flickr Architecture Slides [pdf]

Mar 28th

Ze says to just do it.

Mar 28th

Are You A Genius? Let's Find Out...

Mar 27th

Watch

A panel of Internet millionaires sit down with Guy Kawasaki and rap about the biz… Key...

Mar 26th

Seventy Things To Say When Losing A Technical...

Mar 26th

SQL Beautification Goodness

Mar 26th

The view from the starting line at the 30th Annual Austin...

Mar 25th

The Elvis Green Chile Fried Chicken.  Also known as a lunch...

Mar 25th

Elvis memorabilia and ceramic fish for sale by our table at...

Mar 25th

Tomcat Logs

Me: ls -al tomcat5/logs
Tomcat: -rw-r--r-- 2 root www 0 Feb 27 17:40 .turd_tomcat5
Me: Exactly.

Mar 23rd

The Undocumented Highrise API

Mar 23rd

Value

I’ve been seeing more and more pennies on the ground lately.  They are worth so little that...

Mar 22nd

Clearly, Austin Rocks (Safari req’d on Mac)! ...

Mar 22nd

Geeks Don't Need Condoms

At SXSW, everybody gets a goodie bag. If you’re Platinum, you actually get 3 bags...

Mar 21st

Control your native Mac apps with irb

Mar 21st

“we are moist robots.”
— Scott Adams in the Dilbert...

Mar 21st

The Beginnings of a Tumblr API

Mar 21st

BrownBook: Simple Appointment...

My friend Jamie Stephens has released a new appointment booking application for photographers called...

Mar 21st

Deny Hosts in 41 Lines of Python

Mar 21st

Google To Anonymize Search Logs

Google recently introduced a new plan to anonymize search data after 24 months, the Electronic...

Mar 21st

Starbucks Store Locations via SMS

Text your zip/postal code to MYSBUX (697289) for up to three store matches.

Mar 20th

HeadLine Animator @ FeedBurner

FeedBurner has a new feature (well, new to me) called Headline Animator which reads a feed and...

Mar 20th

Rafflr has it about right.

Mar 19th

Flickr Guest Passes Are Braindead

If I browse someone’s photo set that they’ve sent me (on a guest pass?), but I am also a...

Mar 19th

Bedouins

Mar 19th

Micro Persuasion: GMail As "Personal Nerve...

Mar 18th

“Del.icio.us is too much work…”
— Damon Clinkscales

Mar 18th

California Wildflowers

Mar 18th

Goodbye Ze...It's been fun watching!

Mar 18th

Hanging out with a group of “new” parents today...

Mar 17th

Watch

Reggie Watts: Out Of Control Awesome. (via Dan Benjamin)

Mar 16th

Watch

Naturally7 Bus Performance of Phil Collins ‘In The Air Tonight’. Wow. (via boingboing)

Mar 15th

Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

I just ran across this [10MB, Quicktime] again. It’s that Outback Steakhouse guy. Classic!

Mar 15th

Hivelogic T-Shirts Now Available

Mar 15th

“Corner of Braker & Mopac June 2008.”
— Rory Alexander, Whole Foods on...

Mar 15th

Nordstrom Cafe at The Domain (phase 2):...

Mar 15th

Dressr

A member of the Austin On Rails group, Sara Brumfeld, has gone alpha with her clothing organization...

Mar 15th

Cell Phone Video Discoveries

I accidentally switched my cell phone into video mode when I was at Yahoo BarTab.  You press the...

Mar 14th

“The best way to sell Mint is to tell people to go look at...”
— John Gruber at the Indie...

Mar 13th

Twitter Display at SXSW Interactive

Mar 11th

Chips and Salsa at Manuel’s for Saturday lunch with...

Mar 10th

The Line Upstairs @ SXSW Interactive Badge Pickup (this...

Mar 9th

New Stumbly FeedBurner Feed

If you’ve subscribed to this feed already, please pick up the FeedBurner feed instead… ...

Mar 8th

Very Hard To Find Tumblr Theme Info

Mar 8th

Ridiculously Cool Multi-Touch Demo (TED 2006)

Mar 8th

DreamHost Gets Gruff

Got a note from DreamHost today that they have added Gruff Ruby gem to their server setup.

Mar 8th

SendUIt from Davidville Rawks

Tried senduit.com with Willie today. It was awesome!

Mar 8th

They So Don't Get It

Mar 8th

Austin Apple Store #2

Apple Store @ The Domain [photo] (from manton via email)

Mar 8th

“Why would Scooter Libby lie, as the jury determined? Why...”
— David Gergen on the Libby...

Mar 8th

Austin Gets Its Second Apple Store This...

Map here The best part is that we put an offer on a house less than a mile from this store today...

Mar 8th

S3Fox FireFox Plugin

Mar 7th

Mazda 6 Carputer

Mar 7th

The Grolsch Incident (via mountain_ear)

Mar 7th

Ryan Schwartz Loves >

[/opt/local/var/db/mysql5] root# l query.log -rw-r—r— 1 mysql mysql - 19G...

Mar 7th

Test Items on Amazon.com

Don’t buy these (via jzawodn)

Mar 7th

“The “investment income” account of our country –...”
— Warren Buffett, in his 2006...

Mar 7th

Watch

The Reagans On Drugs

Mar 5th

Rails 1.2.2: script/about in production...

Nomad:~/rails/foo damon$ script/about...

Mar 5th

Shine a Light on Your Bugs

Rick (aka Technoweenie) of the new development firm Active Reload releases Lighthouse, a Rails-based...

Mar 5th

“The Austin On Rails SXSW Happy Hour is going to rock.”
— Damon Clinkscales

Mar 5th

SXSW Interactive Looms

This Friday, we kick off a great festival de geek here in Austin.  Check out some of the panels. ...

Mar 5th

Is Twitter under a D.O.S. attack?

$ curl -v http://twitter.com/ * About to connect() to twitter.com port 80 *   Trying 8.7.217.31......

Mar 2nd

My action name is Decker Coyote.

Mar 2nd

SXSW Artist and Film Listings Via Mobile...

You can look up bands and films playing at the SXSW Festival by texting to 56658 with your search...

Mar 1st

Austinite’s Toe Damaged by AT&T

Mar 1st