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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

Google May Pull out of China?

Via TechCrunch

Google is releasing information about a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” on their corporate infrastructure that occurred last month. The attack originated in China and resulted in the “theft of intellectual property from Google.” In light of the attack Google is making sweeping changes to its Chinese operations.
Google is releasing some information about …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

Open Source and Free Software I use

[This was updated 12/16/2008 with the most recent software I am using]

7-zip – This program will handle nearly any type of compressed file. Its pretty solid and supports drag and drop. – Replaces WinZip & WinRar
Daemon Tools – Daemon tools is a CD emulator, needed if you want to mount CD or DVD images. …read more

Children Dancing on a DOS prompt

A picture I took in Hong Kong recently got featured in the Error’d section of The Daily WTF. They even took the time to blur out the kid’s faces.
Brendan Nee observed some children at a Hong Kong airport enjoying one of my favorite passtimes – dancing on a projected DOS prompt!

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Warehouse Construction Video (with dance sequence)

I’ve been living in a live/work converted warehouse space in San Francisco for a few months now. Along with seven other people, we did all of the work of building out the space ourselves. My brother put together a video time-lapse montage of our progress and posted it on youtube, check it out:

If …read more

Make mailto: links open in gmail in Google Chrome browser (Windows XP & Vista)

I’ve been rocking Google’s new web browser Chrome for the last few days and really like it. Browsing craigslist and clicking on email mailto: links I realized there isn’t an obvious way to force these links to open a gmail window in Chrome. Most Windows systems will have the default mailto handler set …read more

From the Blinktag 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. […]

The best campaign ad ever? (we think so)

One of our clients, James Perry got written up in an article by Salon “The Best Campaign Ad Ever”. Hes running for mayor in New Orleans in 2010. When a narrator, describing other candidates, says,. […]

MUNI real time arrival data now free and open

Jed and I are at Datacamp SF #cadata today. MUNI announced at the event that their real time arrival information is now open and free for developers to access. Its the same data that powers nextmuni.. […]

Google traffic fail

The Bay Bridge just had a cable snapped and BlinkTag is on the wrong side. The Bay Bridge is closed, sounds like it could be 24 hours or more before it reopens. I’m curious how long it will take goo. […]

The Blink Tag shows up on XKCD’s tribute to Geocities

In honor of Geocities shutting down today, XKCD redesigned their site in Geocities style. This redesign included a prominent use of the blink tag (including some HTML mistakes to show the markup).

BlinkTag Inc Company articulated bus

Update: SFist wrote a followup article about us and our bus. Blnktag just pimped its ride!  $3,250.  Worth every penny. What’s even sweeter is that we figured every hipster with $10,000 bucks woul. […]

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