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Archive for October 2009

Jim Coudal on RFPs

In Asides on 31 October 2009 with no comments

A few days ago I read a compelling argument for bailing on the RFP game by Max from Big Bang Technology that got me thinking about this stuff.
Interestingly enough, today I was watching this talk Jim Coudal did at GDC and he presents the idea he pitched to his agency regarding RFP’s.
I thought it […]

whitehouse.org drupal move

In Asides on 26 October 2009 tagged social web, Technology with no comments

If you haven’t heard, the whitehouse.org team has announced that their entire platform is running on drupal and a few other open source projects powering their servers.
This is big news for the open source movement but more than that it really goes to show that there is no need to reinvent the wheel, specially at […]

Magic Mouse and Middle Clicks

In Asides on 21 October 2009 with no comments

As any Mighty Mouse user probably does, I hate it’s little fucking nipple for all the times it forgot it could scroll.

The problems caused by that thing over the years have been simply maddening.
Yet I still use it. Call me an masochist, but I like the stupid mouse otherwise. I love clicking the […]

Stop Motion Sunsets

In music on 14 October 2009 with Comments Off

Continuing with my experiments in stop motion photography comes my latest project.
The scene is what’s leftover from a bonfire the night before (in what probably will be the latest bonfire of the season), chairs turned upside down over night by the wind make for a memorable view.
5 hours of shooting frames every 15 seconds […]