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Atlanta'sPeerless Price andCincinnatti'sPeter Warrick as my starting wideouts for my office fantasy league. Stupid NFL 65-man roster last minute cuts. -
Pandora - good as advertised (metaphorically speaking)
I just tried out the new Pandora service, which finally went live Monday and at long last came out of its invite-only shell. The service hosts your own custom radio shows (up to 100, I think) and shares them with friends. It's a really neat idea, bridging the portability of RSS-style apps with old skool (you know, circa 2001) Internet audio.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 30, 2005
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Leave me a voicemail, send me a shoutout, or make comments about today's podcast: 1-206-600-4JAS (4527)EPISODE #108 - a call at 2:30 in the morning wrecked any chance of sustained comfortable sleep, so I'm dragging ass this morning. To combat my fatigue, I chug an entire King Car Lemon Tea on an empty stomach and boost my caffeine intake, and go off on rants about the lack of intellect displayed by my alma mater, great 80's music videos, the changing nature of podcasting, and how different a place the world's going to be once Microsoft fully gets behind podcasting.
Topics Discussed:- Awakened by a long-distance call and unable to get back to REM-land
- Hear me chug an entire King Car Lemon Tea
- Green Day's new video is amazing
- Greatest music video ever: Dennis DeYoung's "Desert Moon"
- I saw a Vonage infomercial in the wee hours of the AM
- My alma mater is so dumb
- Significant moments in podcast history
- Projections on bandwidth and listenership when Microsoft finally comes out with Windows Media Player v.Next - like iTunes 4.9, but 10x worse
- How I've changed as a podcast listener over the last few months
Let's not assume everyone knows how to develop in best-practices fashion
I've never been afraid to raise my hand and ask what others might see as a dumb question if it helps the community learn something (myself included). I've always been altruistic like that. That said, one thing that's been irking me is how would-be "experienced" or "top-notch" developers are quick to chastise the notion that programmers might not employ a best-practices approach in designing their systems.
Bravo, Rick Strahl: comments on Ajax's downsides
I've been asking lots of questions about the potentials of Ajax programming to hurt an app, probing various aspects of the potentials for Ajax-style development to impede on a web app's security, true asynchronous development model, scalability, mobile support, the perception of building faux "rich" clients, and other concerns, many of which admittedly stem from my general ignorance.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 29, 2005
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Leave me a voicemail, send me a shoutout, or make comments about today's podcast: 1-206-600-4JAS (4527)EPISODE #107 - I'm back! After a brief hiatus taking care of business, I'm behind the mic and ranting and raving about whatever's important or poignant to me. I yak about things of particular interest on a beautiful Monday island morning.
Topics Discussed:- Covering the Little League World Series, PalmCatcher working group, the podcasting class I'm teaching, KUAM's big Fall Premiere party
- The good thing about a storm - Guam's streets are clean
- Voicemail: Glenn from Vallejo lands a new gig
- Axe Body Spray: good as advertised
- It came to me in a dream - my "Rising Son" screenplay
- Can only women dream in color?
- Jamie and the SportsBloggersLive crew debate the best sports video game ever
- Tech tip: make sure you disconnect a BlueTooth call, lest you rack up mega-minutes for
Aloha from Williamsport! Hawaii wins first LLWS championship
Even though my guys from Guam played an outstanding tournament, beating Russia, Canada and then Mexico, we ran into a tough team from Curacao who beat us 16-1 in the international semi-final (details).
Google Earth screen grabs of Jimi Hendrix places in Seattle
I grabbed these pictures from a Google Earth scan of Seattle, recalling my trip in 2000 when I applied to work at Microsoft. The recruiting trip ultimately proved unsuccesful, but the experience was unforgettable. I've been playing guitar since I was 5 (I'm 31 at the time of this posting), and I'm a big Jimi Hendrix fan.
Ajax polling/refreshing
Doing periodic polling in web apps without leaving/reloading a page via Ajax-style programming is something I'm quite excited about. It'll be cool to have a web page auto-update by way of a VB-esque timer or JavaScript window.setInterval() or other related service when inventory runs out, or a document isn't being edited, or a user logs into the system, or something like that - without post backs, refreshes or redirects.
Skype for Windows Mobile/PocketPC
Running skype on my PDA phone is cool in a major way: http://www.skype.com/products/skype/pocketpc/
10 steps to being a successful Web 2.0 company
Reall, really, really neat stuff here that's not necessarily anti-corporation/anti-big business, but more pro-smart business in the age of new media. Makes you think about leveraging podcasting, blogging, tagging, and metadata'ing the crap out of everything: http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2005/08/10_steps_to_a_h.html
On the Podsafe Music Network's good behavior policy for members
Joel sent me an intriguing article that was critical of the Podsafe Music Network's policy for member podcast producers to swear to an oath of responsible 'Netizen behavior. Since the PMN provides royalty-free, podsafe music for open use in podcasts, the catch is that registered members who play said tracks on their own shows - myself included, hence Joel's forward - must implicitly agree to not engage in "referencing 'software piracy (warez, cracking, etc.), hacking, phreaking, emulators, ROM's, or illegal MP3 activity' or saying anything 'deemed unsuitable or harmful to the reputation of PodShow or the Licensor.'"
Achieving podcatcher-esque aggregated downloads through a web client
I previously blogged about my interest in finding and/or developing a web-based podcatcher application, to aggregate RSS feeds for downloading podcastable MP3s. It seems logical that the main roadblock to overcome is how to facilitate the transmission of large amounts of data for download through a web-based client.
More concerns about Ajax programming as a security risk
I previously inquired about whether Ajax programming would pose an increased risk for web apps to become compromised or rendered inoperable due to DOS attacks. I found a link from JamesDam.com about Ajax, and the author (James, assumedly) noted that one of the downsides of his web-based login sample using Ajax was that it increases the opportunity for a brute-force attack.
I miss being behind the mic...
Not having had the time to put together a proper podcast for the last two days, I've gotten lots of e-mail from listeners/RSS subscribers asking me what's up. I'm just swamped, that's all, and I haven't forsaken my equipment, although I do miss my podcasting duties. I'll be back Monday with an all-new show once I get some work stuff straightened out.
Looking for/thinking about a web-based podcatcher client
I've really enjoyed using ther web-based LiteFeeds.com as my RSS reader for blogs, and with the Windows beta release of iPodderX (being able to aggregate RSS feeds for both blogs and podcasts), I've started thinking about what it would take to build a web-based podcatcher client. The hard thing would be managing the transmission of massive amounts of data (large MP3s), across a stateless environment, and providing facilities to do things like catch-up downloading, support BitTorrent, and such.
Curacao def. Guam 16-1 in LLWS
We gave it our all, but Guam's boys ran into a juggernaut of an offensive machine from Curacao, the LLWS defending chanpions. They put on a scary good display of speed and power, going yard multiple times, forcing us to change pitchers 3 times.
My first Ajax.NET project
I finally got around to actively using Michael Schwarz's Ajax..NET library for XMLHTTP development with ASP.NET. It's very easy to use (I actually got confused at how easy it was), and if you can get past the return to hard-coding some of the DHTML elements again.
Guam def. Mexico 5-3 in LLWS
What an amazing comeback - down 3-1 in the 4th, we scored 2 runs on a double by Sean Manley, then another on the same play via a wild throw. This was the first time we'd been behind in the tournament. Much respect to Mexico, they played their hearts out and are very, very good. Guam finished pool play undefeated at 3-0, wins Pool C outright and advances to international semi-finals.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 24, 2005
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Topics Discussed:- My new theme music!
- Team Guam plays Mexico today in the LLWS
- A hallmark card waiting to happen - the picturesque "left behind"
- Ah yes...chicken fried steak is steak (Fredalynn got it wrong)....makes sense when you really drill down and analyze the word
- SHOUTOUT: Ernest Caparas from Seattle
- Public beta now available for iPodderX for Windows
- The functional gap between web apps and desktop apps is narrowing
- Goodbye e-mail mailing lists, hello RSS
- Some criticism of WordPress blogs
- College FightSongCast: David Jacobs from 3RingPodcast and The Rock-n-Roll Jew Show fights for Gonzaga, giving you a history lesson on Bulldog lore
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 23, 2005
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Leave me a voicemail, send me a shoutout, or make comments about today's podcast: 1-206-600-4JAS (4527)EPISODE #105 - I ask the eternally-puzzling riddle: is chicken fried steak actually chicken or steak? I give a couple valid reasons for not having been behind the mic for the last couple days (you'll understand once you hear why), explain the karmic positive effect of me not having taken the free trip to Seattle for the MSNBC.com job interview, and break down KUAM.com's plans for total user customization/personalization over the next two years.
Topics Discussed: - Cosmic forces didn't want us doing our jobs Friday - but we still kicked ass (phone outage, Northwest Flight 74 incident plane crash)
- Good thing I didn't go to Seattle...I would have missed covering the NW story entirely
- I'm covering the Team Guam in the Little League World Series, so I've been spending my mornings making long-distance calls on off days and watching ballgames
- We're preparing for our big annual Fall Premiere
- My new mission statement: "Guam's best news, information and entertainment - how you want it - anytime, anywhere, on any device."
- We're going to look back on the period in history known as "The Reality TV Era" and wonder what the hell we were thinking
- SHOUTOUT: Tracy Davis from Guam
- You may notice that I dip in and out of certain streams of consciousness...
- What's for lunch this week in the KUAM Cafeteria?
- Is chicken fried steak....steak or chicken?
- Multi-platform integration of multi-bitrate streaming video into KUAM.com's push products
Guam def. Canada 5-0 in LLWS
Our boys played a great game and overcame a tough Canada team, winning 5-0. Pitcher Sean Manley threw a complete game, 1-hitter. We're now 2-0 in pool play.
More participatory journalism pix of Northwest Flight 74 on Guam
We got some more pix after I posted the first community-submitted imagery taken of the landing of Northwest Flight 74 from Narita, Japan to Guam. I'll bee adding these to our news site sometime tonight and we'll have more streaming video (see the original streaming coverage) of the events and interviews from the day after. These amazing shots were taken by Terra Lynn Nabeyama (used with permission).
Antacid, anyone? The possibility of Ajax scripting attacks
Despite my profession, I've never attested to know much about computers, a fact I'll now undoubtedly prove. I'm wondering if because of the apparently inherent nature of Ajax programming to be a performance concern in executing remote server-side scripts on an per-client-side event basis, potentially firing in rapid succession (which in cases of data access wired up to keypress events can reasonably be a fairly large concern), does this open a dangerous window in the case of form-based data input to injection attacks?
We're coming strong: Guam plays Russia in LLWS
We're all pretty stoked today...despite it being a Saturday morning, all of Guam's eyes are on Williamsport, PA for the Little League World Series, featuring our local boys, who have a really stellar team this year. Despite their given positions, each of the 13 guys representing our little island are lights-out pitchers, so any can take the hill. I interviewed the team for our newscast before they left for a story and they're a really good, motivated, focus group of kids.
Packt Publishing - a slick new tech book company
I discovered Packt Publishing tonight, and I'm very impressed with their titles in print so far, as well as what's on the horizon. They've got a good mix of Java, a hefty gallery of Microsoft & .NET works, web services, and open source titles and others, plus other things like video production.
Northwest Flight 74 makes sudden landing on Guam
We had a huge story this afternoon on Guam that we were all over and had total team coverage for, with some slick streaming video of our reporters out in the field. During approach, the 747's forward landing gear on a Northwest Airlines Flight 74 inbound for Guam apparently had complications. 318 people were evacuated, with 3 receiving minor injuries.
The blog now officially a pillar of effective web marketing
I'm stoked to see that people not directly in tech are realizing the importance of blogs as a means of effective web marketing. In fact, it's thought by some to be a critical component, so much so that you won't survive without one:
It's Google's world, and we're all just squirrels
Damn, Google acquired Android for its push into the mobile market, right on the heels of a similar acquisition of DodgeBall. I so wanna work there.
Ajax: role in SOA, server load imposition
There's a bit of a debate going on about whether Ajax can properly co-exist with web services in service-oriented architectures. Why not? Michael Meehan's excellent article mentions that while Ajax isn't a great arranged marriage for SOA, they can work very well together (think peanut butter and chocolate). Others argue that XMLHTTP isn't new and as such serves to be a square peg in modern abstracted, message-centric service development - putting too much emphasis on presentation-layer cosmetics and therefore sitting outside the scope of true SOA. Also:
Free Wiley e-book on EJB design patterns
Wiley & Sons' excellent "EJB Design Patterns - Advanced Patterns, Processes and Idioms" by Floyd Marinescu is available for download as an e-book from TheServerSide.com.
Other type(s) of asynchronous programming in Ajax?
Ajax at the moment is gaining a lot of popularity for its ability to make out-of-band calls to remote scripts by way of XMLHTTP that function as server-side handlers wired up to client-side JavaScript events. This programming model, for the moment with the growing community of samples available on the Web, is used to process relatively small amounts of data, such as simple database queries and other things with minimal payloads to send across the wire. The data is bound to server-side controls and/or DOM objects for display on a page without the waiting of traditional web applications. This is the essence of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
Enjoy enhanced podcasts via MMS on your mobile phone
Tea Vui Huang has created MMS Podcast, a slick app to allow enhanced podcasts to be chapterized for playing on a mobile phone via MMS. It's extremely cool. He also previously (like last week) wrote JavaCast, a J2ME MIDlet that allows enhanced podcasts to be enjoyed on Java-enabled phones.
Scott Isaacs on why Ajax is so 1999
Scott Issacs, one of the people who developed DHTML and now an MSN architect, gave his thoughts on "why Ajax is so 1999" in two parts (Part 1 || Part 2). Dare Obasanjo also offers his comments/criticism on the practice, and mentions the custom Ajax framework he's been helping to develop for Spaces and Hotmail. Good reading.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 18, 2005
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Leave me a voicemail, send me a shoutout, or make comments about today's podcast: 1-206-600-4JAS (4527)EPISODE #104 - I give a lesson on the art of keeping your ego in check after you've been podcasting for awhile, speculate on the intent of the recent Windows 2000 worms, play some great podsafe music, welcome back Dion from the KISSPodcast to the podosphere, talk about video delivery to PSPs via RSS, and swallow my pride for the mother of all "my bads" - apologizing to a friend who's contributions to the web community I mistakenly left out of yesterday's podcast.
Topics Discussed:- Jamil (a Mac guy) was laughing his ass off at all us Windows guys after word of WORM_ZOTOB.D and WORM_RBOT.CBQ got out
- Are the person(s) who wrote the worms into blogging/podcasting? Hell of a goal, trying to take out MSM for a day...
- The Mother of All My Bads: sorry, Alex - I didn't start KUAM.COM from the very beginning: http://web.archive.org/web/19970423042355/virtual.guam.net/kuam/index.html
- It's not the technical engineering that's the tough part about new tech, it's the social engineering to get behind it
- Podsafe Music: Sunspot (Wisconsin, USA) "Change The World"
- Badminton - the only time a broadcaster can legally say "shuttlecock" and "birdie"
- Welcome back to the podosphere Dion from the KISSPodcast!
- Inspired by porno: my new business plan to deliver video content to the PSP via RSS
- Podsafe Music: Twim Cam (Ohio, USA) "Jet Black"
- Nice feature with the Podsafe Music Network "Who's played this song?" make sme almost forgive them for the lack of persistent login
- A lesson on the art of keeping your ego in check after you've been podcasting for awhile
Multi-multiplatform - KUAM.COM video for the PSP via RSS
And you thought us crazy kids at KUAM.COM were doing some cool things with the Web already. In the interest of adding to my company's vast array of news & entertainment products for the Web, blogs, podcasts, the desktop, RSS, WAP, PDA, SMS, BREW, and over streaming media, I'm giving some serious consideration towards encoding video for the PlayStation Portable. Apparently, the supported video is in a proprietary Sony format needed header encoding gizmos, but I'm working on that.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 17, 2005
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Manning's "Ajax in Action" book
I'm planning to obtain a copy of David & Eric's "Ajax in Action" by Manning, specifically because it's got samples in J2EE and .NET. Looks to be a winner!
Google's Master Plan
Dude, Google's Master Plan is heavy. And frickin' cool.
Amazon Ajax sample? Extended information when mousing over a book's image
I just stumbled across something while looking for a link for my podcast show notes. I was linking to the detail page for http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0446675962/qid=1124232364/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0880530-7675340?, and then noticed while accidetnally mousing over the book's image that a subwindow pops up with extended information about the book - including a search form to look within the book's contents.
Does Ajax-style data access kill less-scalable architectures?
I'm assuming that Ajax-style web applications where client-side JavaScript events handled in rapid succession, like OnKeyUp in the Google Suggest beta - wherein corresponding database calls would be made on a per-keystroke basis, usually creating/destroying DB connections each time - would wreck an app running a low-grade database like Access with a limited number of connections. Is there someway around this?
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 16, 2005
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Michael Schwarz breaks down Ajax.NET
Michael was beyond cool in publishing a slide deck profiling his .NET Ajax library - Ajax.NET. Perhaps most impressive is the fact he's implementing JSON, the XML alternative which I've heard next to nothing about from the .NET community (I wonder if Microsoft's going to use JSON in Atlas...). He's also inherently built-in Unicode support, and a scheme to "retrieve events instead of polling" (see 5th slide for description).
Behold the ravages of age
Geez...funny how life is sometimes. At my geriatric age of 31 years, I'm amazed at how certain role-specific questions relative to a job interview, asked on-the-spot, would have floored me at 22:
Scoble: Give me RSS or give me death
Rob Scoble, Microsoft's Sultan of Syndication, blogged previously about how his landmark theory of "If you don't have an RSS feed today, you should be fired." I totally agree. The technology has reached the point of maturity when it's applicable for real-world use in all indusrtries (not just in weblogging apps and by publishing companies), across application barriers, in a multitude of devices, over diverse platforms, and with a variety of data and media formats. In every industry, on every blog, on every site, there can be - and damn well should be - an RSS feed. It's a very welcome invasion. And you're a feeble competitor (and according to Scoble, subject to termination from gainful employment) if you don't leverage it. It's that powerful.
My goodness, how far Google's come
Considering how large Google (the site) is now, with all the development work applied to the services subsidiary to the main search feature - image search, Google News, Froogle, Google Maps, GMail, Google Earth, I'm amazed that the whole thing started with a simple two-page search process. Certainly there were more files, scripts, pages and libraries within the site that no one ever saw, but I'm estimating that more than 99.9997% of the site's traffic was from (1) the homepage/search form, and (2) the search results page.
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 15, 2005
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Backbase RIA whitepaper: Ajax & beyond
Backbase, who's doing a lot with rich Internet application (RIA) development, published a whitepaper on the future of RIA development, with the recent Ajax craze and beyond. It's got some good conceptual information, as well as Backbase-specific architecture. The company's got a whole list of whitepapers on its software, including a neat piece on search engine-friendly RIAs. Nice work.
Macromedia addresses deep linking in Flash
It was great to see Macromedia's Kevin Lynch address the topic of deep linking, bookmarking and script referencing in Flash. This has long been a source of contention for me, and not surprisingly, for others as well. Hear a podcast snippet here.
My 100th podcast
This past Friday I recorded, uploaded and distributed my 100th episode of The Digital Pontification, having reached the plateau in only 17 weeks. I guess it pays (metaphorically speaking) to podcast every weekday. I've gotten a ton of very positive feedback for reaching this milestone, so thanks everyone.
6 questions about problematic Ajax development
Thinking about Ajax web applications programming, I've come up with a few questions. Perhaps the solutions are obvious and I've just missed them, but they're nonetheless bothering me tonight:
Deprecation for Older Browsers: most Ajax code samples I've seen handle older or incompatible browsers will a dreaded "You need IE 6+ to run this sample", much in the way we now handle IFrames. There's got to be a better way to deliver the same functionality, sans the fancier interface, for older stuff. Or at least gracefully bow out and recommend an alternate path.
Security of Code: many Ajax tutorials at this embryonic stage in the game put their full JavaScript code within the calling page, which is great for learning, but not so acceptable for production-caliber apps, depending on the implementation. Sure, we can stick our client-side function libraries in .JS files and reference them somewhere on the network (e.g. <script language="JavaScript" src="http://someserver.com/ajaxLibrary.js"></script>), but someone can just as easily see how you're doing what you're doing. (Note: you ever tried checking out the source for Google Maps? Whoa…). Craig Shoemaker from the Polymorphic Podcast indicated that, at least for the sample Ajax app he created, the remote script being referenced that generates the XML message ultimately called into an ASPX page needs to be on the same host, otherwise a JavaScript exception will be thrown, and the process won't work. Have we a better way to reference script without it having to be on the same server, and in so doing, make it secure enough not to be extracted and reverse engineered?
Custom Data Types Via XML Web Services: the case will arise where pages will need to call a web service returning a custom structure returning non-SOAP XML data. Since we can just directly call upon ASMX files and other sample output pages depending on platform, passing any parameters (i.e., <script type= "text/javascript" src="service1.asmx?AJAX"></script>), we won't need WSDL or Visual Studio Web References. Since the whole point of web services is to tap remote data sources, will this be suspect to the same JavaScript error(s) mentioned above?
Session State: Microsoft has directly addressed the issue of working with stateful data from within its client script framework in Atlas using callbacks. Really good work going on here. This will allow a developer to be able to use such data between client and server. But if the justifiable assumption is that Microsoft will create some great framework to produce "Ajax-like" web experiences, how about, by that time, those of us who want to use a pure Ajax programming model and take and leverage state?
Globalization: with a bigger push being more globalization of web apps, allowing for the use of multiple languages and page encoding, what are some of the issues that bubble up when changing the displayed character set on-the-fly?
Again, these are just some issues that I believe will come up and be asked at some tech talk or discussed in the forthcoming Ajax books. The answers may be obvious or unresolved. I'd just like to know which and to what degree. I'm hoping that Microsoft's ambitious Atlas effort has foreseen these and many other concerns and will work them into the eventual product. I've read that the Atlas Client Script Framework bakes-in rich string manipulation, making all apps inherently globalized and encoding-capable. Lord knows people smarter than me sit around and think about this stuff all day - this just occupied 10 minutes.
So consider this an altruistic plea for knowledge/debate: I always was that kid in school who asked the question everyone was thinking (or the question that everyone already knew the answer to), no I've got no reservations sticking my neck out and making myself look stupid for the benefit of the community. Any feedback would be most appreciated.
AJAX or Ajax?
Being a news editor and having been raised by an English teacher, I'm naturally anally-retentive when it comes to writing & grammar. As such, I'd like to know if Asynchronous JavaScript And XML should be properly written as "AJAX" or "Ajax"? I've blogged several times, intentionally using both formats in the hopes that someone would point out the mistake and correct me.
Robin Good weighs in on Ajax web development
I've started subscribing to Robin Good's blog on new media, as it's aptly named. It's good great stuff about modern communications, and this is no exception: Ajax: The New Web Interface Design Development Approach Everyone Talks About
O'Reilly: Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser
My boss doesn't know much about or care for RSS. He just knows it's one of several thousand acronyms I'm really into and that it's the main mechanism through which I'm syndicating my site's news content and making our podcasts accessible. As such, he's curiously followed our RSS links and since determined that he hates seeing raw XML, seeing it as too nerdy.
Only the best of my RSS: LiteFeeds clippings service is truly cool
I've moved all my blog reading responsibilities exclusively over to LiteFeeds, which lets you manage/consume your RSS blog subscriptions via the web, and then also read them on a mobile device. But the feature I've been using a lot lately is the "clip this article" feature, which lets you publish poignant blog snips to a single RSS feed.
An introductory lesson in AJAX
Today there are so many sites, blog posts, podcasts, downloadable samples, and exhibits of how to do cool things with AJAX, but it's hard to come by a simple example. Here's a nice tutorial on using JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest object in a PHP script by Bill Bercik: http://www.webpasties.com/xmlHttpRequest/
Google Suggest dissected
An interesting analysis of Google Suggest by Chris Justus: http://serversideguy.blogspot.com/2004/12/google-suggest-dissected.html
Porn star podcasting: the next killer app?
Ever the marketer, I'm always on the hunt for the next big thing. As a software developer, I'm always eager to build the damn thing myself. And as a proud podcaster, I'm always wondering who's going to conceive a universally-applicable business model to really allow a podcast producer to make good money, not just subsidiary chump change from fleeting advertising sponsorship. Adam Curry created Podshow, which was a major moment in the podcast history, but creating and managing a network of producers is well beyond what most do-it-yourself'ers are capable of.
The need for accessibility support in podcasts
I recall Adam Curry playing several podcast promos a few months ago mentioning downloadable digital content specifically for the visually-impaired, and how he agreed that such content was necessary and without doubt helpful for legitimizing podcasting. Recently, I got e-mail from someone in the U.S. mainland who is legally blind, who found my blog and podcast and wanted some help in finding a podcatcher application that was better suited for his specific needs. The demand for making such time-shifted audio easily available for the disabled is a critical concern I feel needs more addressing by developers.
Google Maps: MapPoint over the WWW
I finally caved in and used Google Maps to see what all the buzz was/is about. WOW. I actually stumbled across it after doing a generic web-wide search in Google for "apartments in Redmond, Washington", should my job interview with MSNBC.com pan out. Blog posts abound from the general community with how cool the site is, and software developers from all walks of life have joined in a rare feat of unification to collectively praise Google's efforts for pulling off this accomplishment of modern computer sciece - on the client. It's arguably the key AJAX-driven cog in a suite of really cool applications like GMail, Google Suggest and Google Earth.
Software As She's Developed: AJAX-centric podcasts
I've been subscribing to Michael Mamehoff's excellent work with the Software As She's Developed blog/podcast. He previously did an overview of AJAX, one on lazy registration with AJAX, and more recently posted a profile of widgets developed using AJAX patterns. Great stuff.
ComfortASP.NET: AJAX-like programming in ASP.NET
The ComfortASP.NET projrect is interesting: http://www.daniel-zeiss.de/ComfortASP/
Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 12, 2005
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Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 11, 2005
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Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 10, 2005
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Digital Pontification: Podcast Show Notes - August 9, 2005 (night cast)
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Flipping the script on the Microsoft interview process
I'm sitting here in my office preparing for a phone interview with MSNBC.com. I'm remided of my three valiant, but unsuccessful, attempts to get into Microsoft, and how tough the interview was when I was brought out to the Redmond, Washington campus. I loved it - emotionally, intellectually, and physically, it takes a lot out of you. Part of the deliberate, intentional difficulty of the interviews is the abstract level of the questions you're pelted with throughout the nine-hour ordeal.
Is Atlas the next coming of .NET MyServices?
<GASP!> What's that I smell? Could it be? Dare I say it? Is my investigative journalist mojo kicking in, or is my alter-ego conspiracy theorist revving to stir the pot? Is the impressive Atlas Project being put forth by the fine folks on the ASP.NET Team some new-fangled way of breathing new life into the since-defunct and possibly semi-forgotten .NET MyServices? Could the new capabilities of enhanced web clients, directly tied into some of the main features of ASP.NET V2.0, making it easier to directly interface with a series of high-end subscription-based, largely Microsoft-hosted XML web services, allow a platform to show its face in the daytime, when it never initially made it to V.1.0?
Peter Jennings (1938-2005)
I've lost a colleague today. My thoughts, prayers and condolences go out to Peter Jennings' family and the folks at ABC at his untimely passing. As a fellow broadcaster, he's someone whose style, suave and charisma were something all of us in the business admired and tried to emulate. He had announced he had lung cancer this past April.
Domino's enabling SMS-based ordering for home delivery
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I'd like to see a Microsoft-supported "control gallery" for AJAX libraries
Some things I've always found helpful are the control galleries on the ASP.NET and Windows Forms web sites, which is a collection of free community-submitted custom server controls, free for public download. This is a great locale I've tapped many times, either for production-quality utilities, just to see what people are working on, or to get inspiration for my own projects.
Whoa, hoss! Let's not start calling web apps "rich clients" just yet
One thing I've been hearing a lot lately is the misuse of the term "rich client" when describing a web application heavily using client-side functionality or aesthetic enhancements (I've incorrectly uttered the phrase a couple of times myself). This is most common in web creations having undergone hardcore Dynamic HTML treatment and/or exhibiting AJAX-style programming.
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Quasi-realtime content delivery in podcasting
On a recent episode of the Daily Source Code, Adam Curry talked about an interesting solution to the growing need for massive bandwidth brought forth by exponentially growing demand, with corresponding increases in cost. The concept is a content delivery method for podcasting with near-realtime performance - a mechanism that would deliver streaming-speed content while letting it be saved to a filesystem like a true download.
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I want to see how the online porn industry adopts AJAX
In a previous post, I pontificated on the predictable behaviors of various groups in e-commerce settings after adopting AJAX-style programming into web sites. I'm now really curious to see how online porn sites will be affected by the platform, and in what creative ways designers and developers will use asynchronous XMLHTTP calls via JavaScript to market their wares.
Having trouble logging back into your .Text-based blog? Use the old ASP.NET Forums password fetcher
Alex Lowe really saved my behind tonight. I was locked out of my own blog's admin page, unable to publish new posts or make changes. He suggested I try the old password retrieval URL at http://asp.net/Forums/retired/User/EmailForgottenPassword.aspx?tabindex=1
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Locked out of my .Text blog...but only in IE
Weird...after an automated cookie dump on my home PC, I've been locked out of accessing my .Text-based blog's admin page (I'm writing this by getting into my admin page through FireFox). The funny thing is that (1) the 'email me my password' link within .Text points to a dead page within www.asp.net, and (2) even when I got to the page to get a new password, the new one doesn't work.
This is going to really suck if I can't access my own blog. Anyone ever run into this?
MSN RSS screensaver...now we're onto something
I remember seeing the demos of an RSS screensaver on MSDN's Channel 9 that tapped not only data from various MSN services (spaces, weather, etc.), but also apparently configurable RSS feeds. Now that's a slick idea...makes one start to really begin to consider all the different platforms RSS, SOAP, OPML, ATOM and other XML-based technologies can run on. A simple program with a specific purpose, packaged neath the guide of an elegant UI, delivering data everyone wants and can customize. Really nice work. Check it out!
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Pimp my ride: TomTom GPS auto navigation system includes Guam driving maps?
A local blogger commented on how his co-worker's been rockin' a new TomTom GPS portable navigation device, which....wait for it....ships with detailed driving maps already built-in for Guam! This would be the first, in my experience as a tech journalist, digital device that ever took my hometown into consideration. Neat!
Before we called it AJAX...
Thr AJAX craze has got me thinking (so much so that it's disturbed my Java research). I"ve been going back and re-reading a lot of the ASP.NET code samples I've collected, and I've noticed some having trace instances of asynchronous XMLHTTP calls via JavaScript.
Adopting AJAX in an e-commerce world: projected reactions
Tim Haines has put together a really good idea, a "blogversation" in which he's calling on the blogosphere to debate the merits of AJAX within an e-commerce environment. He even setup Handy Shop, a clever faux online storefront to demo some of the projected features asynchronous XMLHTTP calls via JavaScript would provide.
Back to basics while taking one giant leap ahead: how AJAX really affects ASP.NET developers
"The biggest challenges in creating AJAX applications are not technical. The core Ajax technologies are mature, stable, and well understood. Instead, the challenges are for the designers of these applications: to forget what we think we know about the limitations of the Web, and begin to imagine a wider, richer range of possibilities."
LiteFeeds - awesome web-based blog reader with mobile component
In response to a blog post I did a couple of days ago about the imminent need for mobile support in weblogging applications, I found LiteFeeds, a web-based RSS aggregator/blog reader that allows you to manage/categorize subscriptions, upload existing subscription lists via importing OPML, clip/share interesting bits from blog posts, and more. It's a slick service - most important, FREE - that works well enough on its own as a blog reader that I'm now using to catch up on my daily reading..
A plea for more seamless integration between Web and mobile services
As a user, I've grown tired of online sites and services either (a) not being available via mobile platforms, (b) having an accompanying but limited wireless component that's therefore not worth using, or (c) not mobile equivalent whatsoever. As a software developer, the lingering complexities in the procedures one takes when developing great counterpart services to existing platforms frustrates me (not isolating any particular developmental platform here - .NET and J2ME each have their idiosyncrasies).
Can't access my site's streaming content on WMP9 on Windows Mobile 2003
I was somewhat crestfallen after learning I can't get Windows Media-based streaming video to play on my Windows Mobile 2003 PDA Phone (an Audiovox XV6600), testing it out with my own site's streaming video archive. I'm able to play stuff from the mobile version of WindowsMedia.com (http://windowsmediamobile.theplatform.com/), which are audio streams ranging in bandwidth from 20-32k - I dig the portable streaming version of KNAC.com.
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"Podcast Magazine" - it's only a matter of time...
I'm anxiously anticipating the day when one of the tech publishers like Fawcette puts together a printed, real-life magazine for us podcasters. It can contain lists of URLs to RSS feeds from the very best (and not so well-known) shows; tips on subscribing, recording and promoting a show; interviews with today's top podcast hosts; a buyer's guide for gear (recording & listening alike); and topical issues having to do with our beloved medium.
UI conflict resolution...an image map?
Occam's Razor - The simplest explanation is the best.
Still hopeful for SMTP-to-SOAP processing
Chalk this up as my Christmas-in-August post...I'm still optimistic that someone way smarter than me (not too hard a feat to accomplish I assure you) will be able to hack together a stable custom transport by which we can easily have data sent via SMTP constitute a SOAP message, to be processed by a web service for use in an app across multiple platforms. WS-Addressing in WSE 2.0 in part attempted to resolve the cross-protocol barrier.
Blog applications need more mobile support
One thing I love doing is checking up on blogs on smartphones, using browsers like the Palm OS 5's Blazer, Pocket IE in Windows Mobile 2003, or the respective browsers on the Sidekick II and BlackBerry devices. The problem is that the typical blog layout doesn't necessarily translate well to the reduced screen size in the typical WAP site or PDA-friendly page.
I'd like to hear what the ASP.NET Team thinks about AJAX
Some really good feedback was generated off of a blog post I did late last night about un-persisted session state across repetitive asynchronous XMLHTTP calls via AJAX. One of the comments, from Eric Newton, speculated that Microsoft might be against using AJAX for that very reason - inconsistent state persistence - and that ASP.NET v.2.0's out-of-band callbacks can handle this better, being wired into the framework and maintaining stateful information, like session data.
What happened to trackbacks in .Text?
Anyone know what the deal is with the on-again/off-again trackbacks in .Text? I'm not complaining, just wondering. I know I was getting strange, repetitive spam-like comments for gambling sites posted to my .Text-based blog for a bit. I figured that had something to do with it.
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Strange behavior with un-persisted session data in remote pages called asynchronously via AJAX
Funny the things you discover when you're coding amid chaos and running low on sleep. There's a telethon going on all around me - literally - with people running amok, answering phones, being videotaped, taking donations - and it's loud as hell. And has been for damn near four hours. So I stumbled across something.
I don't know what JSON is, but I like the name...
I'd never heard of JSON, but for obvious reasons, I dig the name. Har har. Kinda how I chuckle at the month range of July-August-September-October-November (JASON). Forgive me...I'm weird like that.
Can't wait for Wally's/Paul's/Scott's Ajax book
I found out my pals Wally, Glav and Scott are writing a book on Ajax, the technology that's sweeping through the ASP.NET web development community like wildfire. Wally's done some extensive research into Ajax of late (check out his blog for a ton of links, and download Show #8 of The ASP.NET Podcast for audio of Glav's analysis of Ajax and ASP.NET v.2.0's asynchronous callback framework. All three men are great guys and fantastic writers, so I've got no doubt in my mind that this book is doubt going to be a keeper.


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Ozzy Osbourne's memory may not be what it used to be, but he's sure he didn't father Sheron Lutz's child. According to the New York Daily News, she's the woman who claims her little princeling of darkness, whom she named Ozzy Jr., is the reality-show rocker's love child. She says she and Ozzy Sr. hooked up at a party in 1996, and the result is the six-year-old, who she says even has a speech impediment that resembles that of the Black Sabbath frontman.
However, Ozzy issued a statement through a spokesperson that says he had a vasectomy 17 years ago, has no idea who Lutz is, and has no intention of giving her any money. Also, the spokesperson said, Ozzy's garbled speech is a result of his ''lifestyle,'' not his genes. Said Ozzy, ''The most precious thing I have in my life is my marriage and my children and now someone is trying to destroy the harmony in my family. That is not going to happen.'' Ozzy has five acknowledged children, two by first wife Thelma Mayfair, and three by wife of 20 years Sharon, including ''The Osbournes'' stars Kelly and Jack.
Ozzy did say last week that he'd welcome one more kid into his household: Prince William. On the occasion of the British royal's 21st birthday, the Prince of F---in' Darkness sent the real prince a message, stating, ''I've been told that you want to come and live in America. You're more than welcome to come and live in my house.'' No word from Buckingham Palace on whether William intends to take Ozzy up on the offer.

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United Way of Bradley County has scheduled three workshops for programs wishing to apply for Health Endowment Grants for funds that will be available for the 2014 calendar year. Only organizations with a 501(c)3 designation will be eligible to apply.
This will be the sixth year that these grants will be provided by United Way. The grants have been made possible from the 2005 sale of Bradley Memorial Hospital.
"These three workshops will be held at the Community Room of the Cleveland Public Library, with the first being this Wednesday, March 20, at 10:30 a.m.," said Lisa Mantooth, United Way director of partner relations. "As we have done in the past, we have scheduled three separate workshops so those wishing to apply will have ample opportunities to attend one of them."
The schedule for the workshops is:
- Wednesday, March 20, 10:30 a.m.
- Wednesday, April 3, 10 a.m.
- Wednesday, April 17, 10 a.m.
Each of the workshops is expected to last approximately one hour.
Mantooth reminded those interested in applying for a United Way Health Endowment Grant that a representative of their organization must attend one of these workshops.
"We will be discussing the process of applying for these grants, and the type of grants that are available," she said.
Types of grants that will be discussed at the workshops are Pioneer grants and Venture grants.
Venture grants are one-year grants with no possibility for renewal, while Pioneer grants are made in 5-year cycles, meaning the United Way will commit to fund the project in decreasing amounts for up to five years pending on organizational progress toward sustainability and program benchmarks.
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WASHINGTON, July 31, 2013 — American forward Brek Shea, who recently scored two game-winning goals to help the U.S. team win the Gold Cup, injured his knee while playing for English Premier club Stoke City in a 2-0 friendly against the Philadelphia Union at PPL Park in Chester, Pa., on Tuesday.
Shea suffered the injury after a tackle from the Union's reserve midfielder Matt Kassel, which by all accounts was reckless.
"Obviously I'm pretty upset right now," Shea told the media after the game. "I was excited to get back to Stoke and get ready for the season. Hopefully it's not as bad as it feels."
Shea scored a goal in the 19th minute and limped off the field eight minutes later. He will have a scan on his knee today. Whatever the outcome, he is sure to miss the start of the season in England, which begins on Aug. 17 when Stoke visits Liverpool FC.
"It's incredibly frustrating and hugely disappointing to lose Brek, especially in a game like this where you would expect players to look after their fellow professionals," said Stoke City coach Mark Hughes on the club's website. "I really have no idea what the lad [Kassel] was thinking about by going in for the challenge like that. Maybe he was trying to make a name for himself, I have no idea, but whatever he was thinking it was totally wrong."
Shea recently scored the game-winning goal against Costa Rica in the quarterfinals of the Gold Cup and the winner against Panama in the U.S. team's 1-0 win in the Gold Cup final on Sunday. The former FC Dallas player was just beginning to find his form after recovering from a foot injury which limited him to just two appearances with Stoke last season.
According to reports, Kassel was booed by some fans in the crowd at PPL Park after the tackle.
"Obviously I didn't mean to do that," Kassel told MLS.com. "I'm friends with the kid. It was completely just going for the ball. Unfortunately things happen and tonight he unfortunately got hurt…There was no intent at all…I wish him all the best and I apologize for the tackle."
The 23-year-old Kassel played three years at the University of Maryland and has appeared just 33 minutes for the Union this season.
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If you haven't found your neighborhood Vietnamese sandwich shop (everyone should have one), Nicky's is a good place to begin. If it's your first time in one of their locations, don't let its size (tiny) and appearance (ramshackle) put you off. What lies inside is love at first bite. Begin with the classic bánh mi—a thick, fluffy baguette stuffed with paté, ham, ground pork, pickled carrots, cucumbers, cilantro, and dollops of delectable Sriracha mayo. This is a staple of Vietnamese cuisine worldwide, but Nicky's particular interpretation of bánh mi earned it the spotlight on Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate.
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We remodeled the kitchen and it is time to finally get the island lighting done. But having made several lighting mistakes during the remodel project, I am afraid to get this one completely wrong and ruin my new gorgeous kitchen!
Please help! The island is 8 feet long and asimmetrical.
The width ranges from 45" to 51"
We have 5" recessed lights in the isles but nothing above the island. Our contractor ran a wire in the ceiling above it but made no openings so we can pretty much choose any configuration. I am thinking of pendant lights following the curve and one above the sink. However, that may leave the prep area to the right of the sink without much light so I am not sure. People in lighting stores suggested just three pendants along the center ignoring the curve. What would you guys suggest? |
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Your photobucket link isn't working for me. That said though, I was reading that if you need task lighting, find the square footage of that specific area and multiply it by 2.5. So if it's about 8'x4' (averaging 45-51" depth) that's 32sf so you would need 80 watts to fill that space with task lighting. By that theory, two 40 watt pendants would work, or you could do 3 (one over the sink and two others closer to the corners of the island). |
Do you like monorail track light? The flexible kind could be curved to complement your island shape. You could use regular heads over the prep area and hanging pendants over the seating area. Most mini-pendants can be adapted to work with track. |
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- Posted by rxlikestodecorate (My Page) on Sun, Oct 30, 11 at 20:13
I have a large asymmetrical island that snakes through my kitchen. My cooktop is in it as well as two very large prep areas & a raised bar area that runs the entire length. It is approx 136" x 42" wide (including the raised bar). I have 3 pendants over it. They are halogen 60 watts. They are positioned in the center of the 42 width, so you don't throw a shadow on your work surface when you are working or seated at the bar. They work great for me. It looks good & most importantly, they are dimmable. Opt for a higher wattage light with a bulb that is dimmable. You'll like that feature. As I've aged, I seem to need brighter light to work with, but it's still nice to have the dim feature for mood light. Hope this helps. |
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10 Best-Selling Albums Of 2008
The 10 best-selling albums of 2008 put up some impressive numbers, considering that the retail aspect of the music business has pretty much been flushed down the toilet. You could blame downloading or the production of albums that actually belong in a toilet, but either way, in 2008, these ten best-selling albums won over enough supporters that were willing to sacrifice a few dollars to purchase them.
- Lil Wayne, "Tha Carter III," 2.88 million copies Three is the magic number as Lil Wayne fills in the number one slot on this 2008 best-selling album list, making his rapper-as-rockstar image even more prevalent. With collaborators that included: T-Pain, Robin Thicke, Busta Rhymes and Jay-Z, Lil Wayne remained the focus throughout the project and did not get lost in the shuffle.
- Coldplay, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," 2.15 million copies Led by Kanye West and Jay-Z collaborator Chris Martin, these London alternative rockers made having a best-selling album look easy during an industry-wide retail slump. This Brian Eno-produced album brings a noticeable Latin influence that makes this Coldplay offering fairly distinctive from their previous work.
- Taylor Swift, "Fearless," 2.11 million copies She may have had her 2009 MTV Video Music Award moment ruined, but Taylor Swift's record sales rose to the occasion regardless. Thanks to the lead single "Love Story," Miss Swift was able to ride her country music style into the mainstream pop music arena.
- Kid Rock, "Rock n Roll Jesus," 2 million copies The Kid that Rocks caused over two million people to rock out, making "Rock n Roll Jesus" a best-selling album. This album had a whopping six singles: "So Hot," "Amen," and "All Summer Long."
- AC/DC, "Black Ice," 1.92 million copies These veterans of rock lost zero steam and remained relevant to current audiences. This was AC/DC's fifteenth internationally-released album.
- Taylor Swift, "Taylor Swift," 1.6 million copies Not only did Taylor Swift sell over two million copies of "Fearless," her 2008 release, but her self-titled album from 2006 re-emerged and won big as well. This album produced several successful singles including: "Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops on My Guitar."
- Metallica, "Death Magnetic," 1.57 million copies Metallica was able to make money a magnetic item as well. And surely Warner Brothers Records is happy to not have given up on them. "Death Magnetic" made Metallica the first band to ever have five albums debut at number one consecutively on the Billboard charts.
- T.I., "Paper Trail," 1.52 million copies The only other hip-hop artist on this best-selling albums list is T.I. bringing home the bucks to his Grand Hustle record label. T.I. had a huge hit on this album called "Swagga Like Us," featuring Jay-Z, Kanye West and Lil Wayne.
- Jack Johnson, "Sleep Through the Static," 1.5 million copies Jack Johnson fans may have slept through the static, but not on this album. This acoustic rock collection was the fourth studio release from the singer-songwriter.
- Beyonce, "I am… Sasha Fierce," 1.46 million copies. Mrs. Jay-Z kept her superstar status intact with this strong 2008 best-selling release. The music video for her single, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" was the subject of Kanye West's outburst during Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.


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I love everything you've done with it, sooooo nice. As for the fieldstone fireplace I'd white wash it. I have one at my lake house that I did over following the directions below. I'm very very pleased. |
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- Posted by daisychain01 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 22, 12 at 11:08
I love the fieldstone with the two paint colours and I also think the orange mantle goes perfectly with the new paint (as does the furry monster in the foreground). I love orange with greys and the mantle warms the space beautifully. If you really feel you must change it just for the sake of change, I'd stain it a darker reddy toned brown. If you paint it, it will look flat and cold. Right now, it brings some life to the room. I adore the paint in all the rooms. Your whole home is gorgeous - windows, doors, kitchen, ceilings. I can hardly wait to see it all done. |
I have an aversion to the orange toned woods-- and I have a mantle with the same problem (but much worse). And yet.. I agree with the others that it works well with the fieldstone-- it brings out the warm colors of the stone and adds a touch of warmth to the room. My advice would be to bring your furniture back and see how it looks then. You are looking at a mostly empty room with a lot of cool color.. add in your furnishings and I bet the warmth of the mantel fits right in. If not, I'd either sand and refinish or use a gel stain-- but I'd hesitate before going much darker. Your rooms are lovely-- love the colors and the fresh, organic feel. |
Did I miss it- what are you doing with the floors? Will they be stained or natural? As mentioned, you are focused on the mantel in unfinished, unfurnished space - it may not be an issue at all later on. But the floors, being the largest wood element that will not be painted will have a big influence on whether the mantel works as is or will need a color adjustment. Gorgeous house - would love to see more of your reno and details of what is changing. |
I love your rooms, the colors you have chosen, and can't wait to see the finished project! I think the fieldstone is wonderful with the paint colors. While the mantel works with the stone, I agree that it feels out of place a bit with the rest of the space. This may seem a bit of an odd suggestion, but have you considered having the mantel clad in a swirled or brushed stainless? I think it would be a great balance with the stainless in the kitchen, and give a but of a modern tweak to the fieldstone. You could also clad it in copper, but I think the stainless is a better fit with the rest of the space. |
- Posted by secondhalf (My Page) on Fri, Nov 23, 12 at 8:38
Yayagal- thank you!! And the whitewashing is a great idea, but my husband would keel over if I suggested that, as he loves the natural stone. Daisy- thanks so much for the positive feedback (and yes, I DO decorate around my goldens. I also dress around them...never wear black!!). Funkyart- my DH was quite proud that he had given me the same advice as a GWer! Thanks for helping me take a step back. The project is coming to a close, the holidays are upon us, and I guess I'm feeling a bit frenetic. DLM- great point....we are finishing the floors with a clear stain and have not yet determined whether we're going with the Bona HD waterbased or the oil...another reason to wait and see what things look like as they get pulled together. Les- what an intriguing idea. That could be so unique and really fit the space. My roadblock will be DH, who wants it to remain some type of wood tone. He's deferred to me in so much of the decision-making in this project, that when he does put his wishes forward, I like to be sure they work their way in. Thank you everyone for all the ideas and feedback. Hope your thanksgiving was safe and happy. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Fri, Nov 23, 12 at 8:51
I love the stone and would just restain the mantle to pick up on the brownish gray tones. We put some natural hand-hewn beams we rescued from the old house behind our woodstove and I love the color with the stone. Maybe you could head in that direction. |
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Annie- I love that idea..the rustic could help warm up the space. But I am going to wait to see how things look when we have the furniture back in. Thank you! |
Yes -- the stonework of the fireplace is wonderful with your gorgeous rooms -- but a much larger and longer grey or weathered wood mantel would be perfect there .... a carpenter could make a larger "box" that would fit over the current mantel .... LOVE your dog!! What a sweetie-pie face! :) |
I think the poster above meant to whitewash the mantel - not the stone. I think a whitewashed mantel would look nice on with the stone, or just strip the mantel to natural wood and coat it (like you're doing the floor). |
I love, love, love your rooms and I would stick with the grays (maybe very dark grays) only to introduce gold/beige in very small amounts along with dark browns and black. You have a very fresh look going on , don't date it with too much gold tone. |
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Overview - Esther 6 | |
1 | Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward. |
4 | Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives counsel that he might do him honour. |
12 | Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final destiny. |
Esther 6:4 (King James Version)
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.


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7 Performance-Enhancing Drugs of Ministry
Energy can be either high or low.
Energy can be either positive or negative.
Fear is "high energy" (someone running scared has lots of motivation), but it's high negative energy. It may be better than no energy at all. But it's not sustainable. It's not God's will. And it will wreak havoc with family and soul.
This doesn't get talked about nearly often enough. Church ministry is not generally associated with money: there are no old expressions of someone being "poor as a corporation mouse." It's the "church mouse" that's poor.
But I don't have to possess a lot of money to be driven by the desire for it. Sometimes people early on in ministry find themselves motivated more by finances than by sense of calling. Sometimes people in ministry find themselves in a position where they are not making great contributions, but they allow themselves to be locked in by a paycheck.
To be able to serve a church rightly, I have to be able to trust God enough to say: "I don't need this job."
It's possible to draw motivation from seeing someone else in church ministry work at a larger church, or give a better talk, or receive more widespread recognition. It's an endless source of motivation (someone is always doing better than me), but it carries the whiff of the insatiable torment of hell.
People in the Jesus Camp have been comparing themselves to each other ever since Peter found out he was going to have an unpleasant death and wanted to make himself feel better by finding out how John would check out.
"What does that have to do with you?" asked Jesus. Still a good question.
The "I know theology" trump card
Sometimes we pastors will use our alleged expertise as a way to motivate people to do what we want.
"I know you have to work at your secular kingdom-of-this-world day jobs, but get that done as quickly as possible so you can come and volunteer at my church." We can imply that "ministry" is the same thing as "church work."
We may get more hours of church work this way. But workplaces will miss getting trained, wide-awake agents of the kingdom on the job.
For another audience, this might require more explanation. But I don't need to tell someone as discerning as you about this one.
Upon further review …
I said at the top of this piece that I've never used steroids. When I look at this list, I realize that sometimes I have. Sometimes I do. These performance enhancing ministry substances are always nearby.
But I'm trying to get off.
Because the health at stake involves a little thing called my soul. And the souls of those I touch.
John Ortberg is editor at large of Leadership Journal and pastor of Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in California.
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The annual report also summarizes the performance of more than 3,300 Joint Commission accredited hospitals on 45 accountability measures of evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes. While the data show impressive gains in hospital quality performance, improvements can still be made. Some hospitals perform better than others in treating particular conditions.
The list of Top Performers on Key Quality Measures™ increased more than 50 percent to 620 hospitals from its debut last year, and 244 of the hospitals named in the new report are appearing on the list for the second year in a row. The designation is based on performance related to accountability measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children's asthma care, inpatient psychiatric services, venous thromboembolism (VTE) care, and stroke care. Each of the Top Performers met two 95 percent (95/95) performance thresholds on 2011 accountability measure data. First, each hospital achieved performance of 95 percent or above on a single, composite score that includes all the accountability measures for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, including measures that had fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients. Second, each hospital met or exceeded 95 percent performance on every accountability measure for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, excluding any measures with fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients. The list of Top Performers on Key Quality Measures and the measure set or sets for which the hospital was recognized are available online at http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx. Additional quality, safety and patient satisfaction results for specific hospitals can be found at www.qualitycheck.org.
"The Joint Commission began releasing this information as a way to shine a light on and encourage excellence on accountability measures. The significant increase in the number of hospitals achieving Top Performers status demonstrates that these organizations are intently focused on delivering high quality care within their communities," says Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP, M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission. "Making the Top Performers list is no easy feat. I salute these organizations for their hard work in attaining excellence. By consistently using evidence-based treatments, their patients are getting better hospital care."
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Since the dawn of time, writers—especially poets—have tried to present to their audiences the essence of a thing or a feeling. They do this in a variety of ways. The American writer Gertrude Stein, for example, worked with repetition in her prose and famously claimed that in her line "Rose is a rose is a rose" "the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years." She took a different approach in Tender Buttons, offering what has been called verbal cubism and attempting with sound and rhythm to examine objects, rooms, and food. While not always successful, it is excellent fun to read aloud to the like-minded. Wallace Stevens too in his poem "13 Ways of Looking a Blackbird" takes the position that essence can be derived from several perspectives.
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Fierce Bad Rabbit's Chris Anderson on moving to Boston and the band's new licensing deal
When we spoke to Fierce Bad Rabbit frontman Chris Anderson last year, he said the band was on "N" on an "A-Z" journey. In less than twelve months, that progress has sped along rapidly. Since releasing its new album The Maestro and the Elephant this past December, the band has gained some great momentum, from getting a nod from NPR as one of the top acts to look for at South by Southwest to inking a deal with Round Hill Music, for placement in film and television.
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All this progress has come as Anderson has picked up and moved from Fort Collins to Boston. For his part, Anderson insists the change in scenery hasn't derailed the forward progress of the group. In advance of Fierce Bad Rabbit's show this coming Wednesday at the hi-dive, we spoke with Anderson about the eventful past year, as well as the outfit's promising plans moving forward.
Westword: What are some of the major changes or accomplishments the band has seen in the past year?
Chris Anderson: We released the record in December, and that was really fun, although there was a little bit of a setback right when we got back from our holiday break -- all of our stuff had gotten stolen, all of our gear. We shared a rehearsal space in Fort Collins, and from Thanksgiving to Christmas, we didn't have any shows and weren't at the practice space that much. We came back two days before our release show, and all of our stuff was stolen. That was kind of a drag. We had insurance, so that covered some of it ... It doesn't cover everything. We got back on our feet fairly quickly. We had quite a few shows near the release of the record. We just went forward from there.
But the past year has also seen some national recognition for your new work, right?
We did South by Southwest, and one of our songs from The Maestro got listed in the NPR top 100 bands to check out in Austin. That was really cool press. I feel like NPR is really instrumental in the success of a lot of these bands like the Lumineers. That was great, and we played four shows out there in two days and then came home.
We did a fair amount of touring this summer, and the record's been doing fairly well. We ended up getting a licensing deal out of New York with a company called Round Hill Music. That just happened about two months ago. We're hoping that they'll be able to get the music in some good films or commercials. That was exciting to get that attention.
And you're no longer based in Colorado, right?
I moved to Boston. My wife got a job out here, and we've been just kind of getting some ideas to write again. We're going to try to get a new EP out in the spring. I don't know why we keep doing the same thing, but we do an EP and then an album, and an EP and then an album. You release it and put all of that work in and say, "Let's start writing some more." So we've been passing a lot of stuff back and forth via email. That's the way this project is going to start, in terms of writing, just because we're not able to jam every week.
Has the move been challenging, with you in Boston and the rest of the band in Fort Collins?
It hasn't actually been that bad. I've been flying back and forth for a lot of the shows, and they came out here for a little East Coast tour. Logistically, we're making it work. It is a little bit more of a challenge, but I think the fact that we've been a band long enough helps. I mean, it would be really hard to do something like this at the beginning of a band, but we've been playing for almost five years now, so we're able to get by.
That's been fun. I'm enjoying Boston a lot. We're probably going to wrap up the year in October. August is going to be a really [important] month for us. We're going to try to get back to writing and come up with some plans for 2014, as far as where we're going to record and who we're going to work with. Every time you get involved with a project, it's, "What are we after?"
I feel like The Maestro was the last remnants of anything I'd written in the past ten years. I've been writing forever, and the album had stuff that I'd written six, seven, eight years ago, and we adapted it into this band. At this point, we could really come up with whatever we want to come up with now.
That's kind of an exciting thing because every time we do an album, I feel like it gets more organic, as far as coming together with different parts. There's a lot of that on The Maestro, and there's a lot of co-writing in Nashville that I had done. That was a cool experience. But this next project is going to be very much focused on components of parts. It's approaching all instrumentation in pieces outside of themselves and then putting them together.
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