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No Social Network Day 8: “Reading Emails”
Wow, one of the biggest impacts of not reading social networks is that I’m getting much better at reading emails. If anyone has been in an online email thread with me, or on chat, they know I’m “concise to the point of being totally misunderstood,” or something along those lines, my sister Sally told me…
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Women Who Code Lightening Talk Tonight!
Giving a 5- minute talk on “Winning at Hackfests,” a quick look at successes and failures and an introduction to the practice of competitive innovation. Should be fun! PDF here.
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No Social Network Day 5: Part 2, Friend Anxiety
So my last post I talked about a theory I have regarding our obsession with Facebook, namely, we suffer from “friend anxiety.” Historically we used to have vary rich social relationships, now we’re in the nuclear family age with more isolation. Technology has allowed us to reach out quickly and cheaply, creating an artificial fabric…
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Day 3: No Social Media – Why Are We Obsessed With Facebook?
I really almost buckled last night. Was definitely super tempted to log on and check out what everyone is doing. I’ve had to log in once or twice with work, because, well I write Facebook apps. I have a few very limited test accounts that I use for work, so those have allowed me to…
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No Social Network Day 2: Womenly Women
So, Day 2 of No-Social-Media. I feel a little isolated. Yesterday at work, I did miss the distraction of my “coffee break”- cruising my Facebook feed. A coworker offered to share some social media news, but couldn’t think of anything that interesting enough to re-share. I did accidentally log into Facebook, following a link from…
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No Social Networks For Lent: Day 1
I came into work with the resounding request from my coworkers: “How was no social media today?” Yep- I’ve given up Twitter, Facebook, FourSquare, basically anything social and networky, for Lent (from today, 2/22 to 4/8 for those non-Catholics). The idea is religious and a social experiment. I have a great post on it in…
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Converting WAV to MP3
I keep forgetting this, so here it is for all posterity: afconvert -f mp4f -d aac -b 128000 input.wav output.mp3 I’m working on Bingueau-Android, and need to change literally hundreds of little wav files to mp3. And if you want a little command-line Ruby script to do it in batches: # command line test: #…
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Invention and She’s Geeky 2012
I really want to find this picture of my great-grandfather standing in front of his car, that has a license plate with a big circle cut out of the center. He’s showing off his invention. A way of keeping your car from being stolen. You take the center of the license out with you when…
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Sample Koala-Facebook Ruby on Rails App
Back on my old post: “Ruby on Rails and Facebook API (Koala): Basic Example” there was a request for either sample code, or more detail. I’ve setup an app in Github: “Sample Koala Rails Test.”. You can get that code by putting the following on your server: git clone git://github.com/banane/sample-koala-rails-app.git Or, just read it online…
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An iPhone Developer Learns Android- Some Thoughts
At first, doing a “Hello World” was quite easy, the hardest part was learning Eclipse (for Mac): – Open Eclipse and don’t worry about opening a project, on the left hand side will be all of your “workspace” projects. – Running (the play button) does an automatic build – Mouseover red squiggly underlines to find…