Let me first say: yes, there are already a lot of unboxing and impressions of Kindle 2.0 out there. But that isn’t stopping me from giving my own impressions as opposed to some wannabe journo at some blog with implied authority. I’m not saying or trying to infer their similar posts are lacking in any way, this is just my...
read moreMovies are magical. They take us to other worlds, they give us our heroes and our comedy relief. And they are all actually documentaries that can teach us the truths of life. Here are 10 things that movies have taught me, which we have all been wrong about: If I ever see a row or convoy, driving along the street or freeway, of...
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A Chinese television station in Beijing has fessed up…well, wait they kind of had to, seeing as they burned down a new 44-story luxury hotel right in the middle of downtown Beijing. So I saw this kind of going down like this: Chinese TV Station: “Yo…um, your hotel? Yeah, that nice new Mandarin Oriental hotel, 44...
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Yesterday LAist had an article talking about a new pizza place in Studio City, The Arb Pizza Cafe, and one of the guys on my team, Jeff, is a massive foodie. So we all had no choice but to go with him on this next culinary experiment. Plus, the way LAist described it piqued our interest: Matt Compton, co-owner of Arb Pizza answers...
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In digging through my last.fm data and seeing everything I’d been listening to over the past year, I thought it would be interesting to see what ranked at the top for me over that time. So here’s my 3 lists sorted by individual song, album, and artist. Top 10 Artists of 2008 The Crystal Method: big beat/breakbeat? Yes,...
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As part of our build management and continuous integration server, we have everything automated (including versioning, branching, Perforce and Jira integration, automated release notes, built in automated unit tests, etc. etc. etc.), and integrated with our existing platforms. And that’s just what we’ve setup so far, and...
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You hear me, US Bandwidth? You suck. Pathetic. I loathe you. And you shall pay for your insolence. Source: Ars...
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The Joker made the 81st Annual Academy Awards picture/poster much...
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Josh Rhoades is a technology manager (the awesome kind) of Web Development, Software Engineering, and Flash Architecture teams, based in Los Angeles, California. He has lead multi-million dollar projects for Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies, worked on theme park attractions like Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters and Toy Story Midway Mania!, snuck across borders, led multiple developments and launches of Disney.com, fought the law, looked into an abyss, kissed an eel, and rescued at least one damsel in distress. Read about what happened the next day »
