December 2007
29 posts
I-70 is closed and I can’t get out of Vail. Guess I’ll have to go skiing.
Match your music to your mood →
Is the iPhone breaking open the mobile web? →
The iPhone already has a larger share of site hits than all Windows Mobile devices combined. Could this be the real start of the mobile web in the mainstream?
It’s 6:30am and I just saw a middle-aged woman pound a beer in the Madison airport. Gotta love Wisconsin.
Cost of living comparison calculator →
When i was comparing job offers last year I was trying to find a good cost of living comparator so I could figure out exactly how my offers stacked up. Every one I tried was either broken or essentially useless. However, I really like this one (from Bankrate.com) - it seems to come up with a good estimate, at least based on what I know about a handful of cities that I compared, plus it breaks...
"Stabbing blamed on argument over TV remote... →
Yes, this is a real headline. Yes, this really happened. If you thought Wyoming had moved past being the epitome of the wild west, think again.
Driving through Copper Mtn and the temp is -12. Yikes.
Many unmarked rocks exist - use extreme caution. Recommended for intermediates and people with new skis/boards.
Christmas powder day? Count me in.
First day of skiing and the conditions are awesome!
Madison, WI, United States →
Madison, WI, United States →
Denver, CO, United States →
In the Milwaukee airport, of all places. Gotta love holiday travel.
marveling at how hertz can add $150 in fees to a $50 car rental
Do you owe someone a beer? →
Free Facebook App Hosting →
If you’re thinking of writing an app for Facebook, you really need to take a look at this deal. Joyent is offering some pretty high-end dedicated server packages free of charge for a year to Facebook developers. You don’t have to pay for your hosting for an entire year, and this isn’t some fly-by-night ISP which is going to slap you with bandwidth fees if your app gets more...
Madison, WI, United States →
Colorado Snow Reports via Twitter
snow_report: Vail: PP, 0.0" in 24hrs, 0.0" in 48hrs, 27.0" mid-mtn base, 27/32 lifts open. terrain open: 100.0%
snow_report: Beaver Creek: PP, 0.0" in 24hrs, 0.0" in 48hrs, 27.0" mid-mtn base, 14/16 lifts open. terrain open: 85.0%
see more: http://www.twitter.com/snow_report
The year's best actual headlines →
I think my favorite is “Juvenile court to try shooting defendant”
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Extortr →
This is hilarious - I wish it was a real application.
Turn an RSS feed into Snarl messages
require 'rss/2.0'
require 'open-uri'
require 'snarl'
feed = {
:name => "Steep and Cheap",
:url => "http://feeds.feedburner.com/SteepandCheap",
:last_title => ""
}
sleep_time = 30
content = ""
loop do
open(feed[:url]) do |s|
content = s.read
end
rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
if rss.items.first.title !=...
