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Slicehosted

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:42:22 GMT

I’m still on Slicehost, and you should really check out their amazing how-to’s. They’re fantastic.

Forget about February

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:41:09 GMT

Let’s just pretend I didn’t post anything last month, because if we don’t do that I’ll have to publicly admit that I deleted a month’s worth of posts without a reasonable way to bring them back — which I’d rather not do.

In good news, while I was working through everything I added Twitter support to the blog. Now I can put my 140 characters of pithyness in two places at the same time.

Telling stories online

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:00:04 GMT

An interesting study of the crossroads of disparate web services.

Link: http://designnotes.info/?p=1209

Updated Hamsters

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:40:45 GMT

The weather was less-than-conducive to anything other being a shut-in over the weekend, so I spent my time goofing around with the site (when I wasn’t playing Mass Effect). I believe this makes Version 7 for those of you keeping score at home.

No weather or time of day effects yet, but the code’s still in there so I’m expecting them to come back as more time avails itself (read: I beat Mass Effect).

"Fake Steve" is outed by the NYT

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:11:08 GMT

It’s Daniel Lyons of Forbes.com — way to go Mr. Lyons, I’m a big fan. More from FSJ himself on his own site.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/06/technology/06steve.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1186430684-1b46HCLXXsZ31NfiQjz/yA

15 Unfortunately Placed Ads

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:04:29 GMT

Online and in meatspace.

Link: http://www.oddee.com/item_87332.aspx

Time Sensitive

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:54:29 GMT

I spent some time this afternoon building in time and weather sensitivity to my blog’s design. I spent absolutely zero time trying to phrase that last sentence so that I didn’t sound like a complete dork.

This redesign was partly driven by Smashing Magazine’s ‘30 dark designs’ article, partly driven by Amy spending all weekend blogging, and partly driven by the fact that ever since Dunstan Orchard took down his blog I’ve wanted to do something like this.

It’s a first step, there are only basic designs in place for sunny day, cloudy day and night. I think I’d definitely like to get a “twilight” one in there, maybe a rain or a snow, and then maybe a few easter eggs as I come up with them.

Comments and suggestions are, as always, welcome.

Jellyfish Blog

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

The first product officially produced by the Jellyfish team — our blog

Link: http://www.jellyfish.com/blog/

Google deletes own blog

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:34 GMT

As much fun as it would be to poke fun at their mistake, I think I’ll just point out we’ve all had days like that

Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-were-back.html

Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

“Lordynges, by Goddes grace ich yow biseche that ye forgyven me myn tardinesse yn updatinge myn blogge”

Link: http://houseoffame.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/

Entrepreneurial Proverbs

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:09 GMT

Am I the only one noticing a rise in “mantras” lately? In any case, these are excellent quips to keep oneself on track business-wise

Link: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/03/entrepreneurial_proverbs.html

Veerle's blog 2.0

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:07 GMT

Beautiful blog redesign

Link: http://veerle.duoh.com/

A tutorial from Measure Map on getting "unsupported" blog platforms to work with their stats

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:06 GMT

Good to know if you’re newly “independant”

Link: http://forums.measuremap.com/index.php?showtopic=8

Oh, what a year

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:25 GMT

The first (and last) year of Kottke micropatronage

Link: http://www.kottke.org/06/02/oh-what-a-year

Jason asks, "have we jumped the shark?"

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:09 GMT

As a fan of 37signals from day one I hate to see them raked over the coals like this — but I admit something about the atmosphere on SVN has changed recently

Link: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/have_we_jumped_the_shark.php?91#comments

Build a blog in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails (QT)

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:19 GMT

Talk about efficient

Link: http://www.rubyonrails.org/media/video/rails_take2_with_sound.mov