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I’m one of those guys in the swanky condo promo videos

This has been online for over a year, but I figured that since photos of me are so popular on the internet I’d share this video with you as well:

I was featured in the background of a promo video for the SOMA Grand Lifestyle condos.
You have to follow this link and fast forward to 1:00-1:10 …read more

A picture of me on a giant net is famous on the internets

Update: imgur (where this image was hosted) shows that it had more than 1/4 million views

This picture was the 2nd top rated item on reddit.com with 388 comments and counting.

The same picture of me on the net also made it to “Whats Hot” on google reader and it just got dugg with 1400+ diggs and …read more

Thai Hot Dog Stuffed Pizza and Singaporean Prosperity Pizza

Here is a delicious picture series for today:

No Exploding Suitcases, Please

This photo was taken in Hangzhou near a pedestrian underpass.

The Man in the Mirror

I’m going to try posting an interesting photo from my travels on a regular basis. I’ve got a pretty large number of photos that might be worth a look, posting all of them in a gallery would take a while but making a few of them into blog posts once in a while shouldn’t …read more

Google China Logo Photos

I took these photos on a 2008 trip to China outside of Google’s Shanghai offices. I was actually going into the same building to visit a friend who worked at Trane Company, but I thought that if some Google-China news story came up these photos could be useful as stock photos. They are not …read more

Lost Generation

via feedproxy.google.com
Pretty cool video that is a word palindrome.

Posted via web from nee’s posterous

Remnants of the Biosphere

via bldgblog.blogspot.com
Really cool pics of nature reclaiming the biosphere. “The Biosphere, miles from nowhere when it was built in the 1980s, is now within the reach of a building boom streaking north from Tucson and south from Phoenix (and which some demographers say will eventually join the two cities, once 100 miles apart).”

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No updates in a while? Look closer

This blog hasn’t gotten much attention in a while. I’ve been busy updating twitter, sharing things on google reader and blogging over at the BlinkTag blog. If you want to know what I’m up to, what I’m reading or how my business is doing, these are good things to check out.

New site design

It was about time to clean up the crusty wordpress template powering bnee.com. It was one of the first templates for wordpress I created, and it has powered this website since 2006.
I’ve kept track of all of the revisions of my website since 1997, you can see the whole progression on my old stuff …read more

From the Blinktag Blog

simple python script and fun with GeoAPI

I had my first opportunity yesterday to play around with the GeoAPI geo-referencing service. Although not quite as intuitive as Google Map’s forward and reverse geocoding services, GoeAPI gives you. […]

Redirect root domain of custom short URLs using bit.ly pro

We recently used bit.ly pro to implement custom short urls for 511contracosta.org – with 511cc.org. Its currently a free service and works the same as bit.ly shortened URLs, only with a custom domai. […]

Add Google Bike or Google Transit layer to your Google Maps API

Using Google Maps API you can choose between a few different background layers: Standard, Satellite, Hybrid and Physical. This is done using the setMapType() method. However, there currently isn’t a. […]

Make your Wordpress Feeds speedy in Google Reader with PubSubHubbub

Update: Wordpress released an updated PubSubHubbub plugin called PushPress that actually makes your site the PuSH hub, so this is a better choice than the plugin I linked to below. Google just announc. […]

How to Add Google Buzz to a Wordpress Site

Its been a day since Google Buzz launched publicly, but given that it works inside of gmail, there is already a huge user base. You might have a “Digg This” or “Tweet This” button on your blog. […]

BlinkTag HQ hosts Freshbooks “How to Build a Web App Business” workshop

Our pals at Freshbooks asked us if they could use our office to host an upcoming workshop on “How to Build a Web App Business”.  We were pumped to open our office to people interested in web apps. […]

Blinktag Client Meetup a great sucess

Great sucess

BlinkTag Inc Now a Registered Small Business

BlinkTag Inc has been approved by the State of California as a certified Small Business. As long as we stay under 100 employees and keep our average annual gross receipts of $12 million we get a 5% bi. […]

fix your disk permissions! (sorry if this is boring but it was driving me crazy)

Warning: sort of technical here, so this may not be of interest to everyone. But I still feel like people should know how to do this. I was about the re-install Snow Leopard the other day because I di. […]

Can I Buy a Vowel?

Notice anything different in our URL? We just completed purchasing and transitioning to http://blinktag.com from http://blnktag.com. Note the lack of the letter “i” in our old domain name. This ne. […]