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Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:30 AM

Ten Years of Blogging

Fifteen years ago I started this website and ten years ago I decided to try writing a daily blog. I didn’t know how long that would last, but somehow I’ve made it ten years with a blog post going up at least every week day and sometimes on...
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:30 AM

Studio711 and Social Networking

Sometimes I get questions about why I continue to run my own site when there are sites like Facebook where I could post everything simply and get lots of traffic. The answer is twofold: First, I’m a geek and I think it’s fun to run my own server and have...
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Tuesday, February 01, 2011 12:30 AM

New Logo Animation

I enjoyed the old Studio711 melting logo animation, but it always annoyed me to put it at the end of a nice HD video. It was in standard def and never looked right. A new logo has been on my list for a long time, and I recently sat down to get it finished...
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Friday, October 22, 2010 12:30 AM

Another Way To Get Your Studio711 Fix

It seems like every website has a Facebook page these days, and now Studio711 is no different. It now has a fan page on Facebook . There won’t be any new content there that you can’t get elsewhere, but for those people who live inside Facebook and want...
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Monday, October 11, 2010 12:30 AM

Blogging World Record

Darren Murph, a blogger for engadget.com, recently received a Guinness World record for the most posts by a blogger. At 17,212, he has certainly produced a lot of text. In fact, those posts contain 3,389,149 words which is about six copies of War and...
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Friday, October 08, 2010 12:30 AM

Internet Explorer 9 Jump Lists

I’ve been running the beta of IE9 for a while here at work. Honestly, there are enough bugs/compatibility issues right now that I can’t recommend it for the general public. But if you like to geek out on GPU accelerated web browsing, this browser is pretty...
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010 12:30 AM

Site Design Update

It has always bugged me that the photo and video galleries have a significantly different design than this main page, but obviously it hasn’t bugged me enough to invest time in redesigning them. The main complaint/feedback I get is that it’s hard to get...
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Saturday, July 31, 2010 12:30 AM

Eight Years of Blogging

Today marks the eighth anniversary of this blog. To put that in perspective, my blog is older than the BP oil spill. It’s older than YouTube. If it was a child, it would be in third grade. If it was a dog, it would be 56 years old in those mythical dog...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:54 AM

Follow My Blog On Twitter

Want to get notified whenever I have a new post? You can still do that by pointing your RSS reader to http://feeds.feedburner.com/studio711 , but now you can also get notified via Twitter. Just follow @ studio711 and you’re good to go! PS. And don’t forget...
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Friday, July 31, 2009 12:30 AM

Seven Year Anniversary

Seven years ago today, I wrote my first blog post. Since then, I have written almost every weekday and racked up over 3000 posts. Over that period, blogging has gone from an unheard of word to common terminology and is now on the verge of being “old...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:30 AM

Quick Access

I set up a couple shortcuts on my website a long time ago, but for some reason I’ve never published them. It dawned on me that maybe other people would find this useful too: gadget.studio711.com: Redirects to the skiing sidebar gadget page video.studio711...
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Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:30 AM

A Test Of Willpower

On Monday, I started a new personal challenge: no alcohol until Memorial Day weekend. That seemed tough enough, but I’ve decided to step it up a notch. I’m not going to drink any carbonated beverage during that period too. Think it’s easy? Try it with...
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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 12:30 AM

RIP Geocities

A recent story on switched.com (the newest addition to my RSS list) notified me that GeoCities is closing its doors ! I have a soft spot in my heart for the service as it hosted the second version of my website. I started my website in 1996. To put that...
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Monday, December 22, 2008 10:17 PM

Qik Videos

Back in February, I wrote about a new website called Qik.com. You can read that post for more info, but basically it lets you stream live video to the internet from certain types of phone. They finally came out with a Windows Mobile client and I loaded...
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Monday, December 15, 2008 9:55 PM

Studio711 Mobile

If you use a mobile phone to browse the web, my site is a little bit easier to read now. I shut off some of the page layout and background to make it fit better onto a small screen. It could still look a lot nicer, but at least it’s readable now.
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