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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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Monday, November 17, 2008 7:10 PM

Site Tweaks

The good news is that I had unexpected time to work on the website today. The bad news is that it's because I'm sick. I came home at noon and after drugging myself and sleeping for a while, I decided to write some code. That's what everyone does when...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:30 PM

Videos, Digg, and Moblog, Oh My!

The moblog app is fully functional now. I basically had to rewrite it from scratch to use the new API but that's ok. I'm just happy to have it back again. There were a lot of times I missed being able to upload a photo. Secondly, I found out that this...
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Sunday, November 09, 2008 3:00 PM

Site Conversion: Mostly There

While the site still looks very much the same as it did before, I've been hard at work throughout the week and this weekend. Here's a summary of the tasks that have been checked off the list since my last update: The Facebook status is back. I learned...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 1:48 PM

An Update On The Update

It's all starting to come together! I'm really excited about this new design. I still expect to make some changes to it (ie. new header photos), but the core blog features are almost done. If you find pages that still contain the old blog look...
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Saturday, November 01, 2008 1:20 AM

Stable Condition

Good news! As you can see, all ~2800 blog posts have made the journey to the new blog software. Here's a peek at the top of my priority list for the next steps: 1. Bring back the categories and assign them to all ~2800 posts 2. Migrate photos 3. Get...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:46 PM

Site Updates

I'm ramping up for some major site changes over the weekend. I described the rationale for the decisions a while ago, but the short story is that I'm planning to upgrade to ASPNET2.0/3.0/3.5, SQL2005, and Community Server 2008.5. The problem is...
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