2008 was a great year.
A lot of fun things happened. I started speaking more. I started using linux as my desktop. Obama won. I played with XMPP manically. I built some neat applications and Threadless continued to be awesome.
On my blog, the following entires got a decent amount of attention:

Chicago Transit API – Oct. 6th [...]

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The other day I was on flickr and I happened across a friend’s picture of things that he carries in his pockets. I thought it was really neat. He had linked to the photo pool that had a bundle of people following suit. It is amazing. I immediately took a picture of the things I [...]

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So I decided to jump in and write a facebook application. It was really fun and pretty easy. For those of you who haven’t been following this, Facebook released development kit for their site that allows third parties to develop applications that reside inside of facebook’s website. It is pretty nifty.
So I used the [...]

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So i decided to copy the success of my flickr badge and create a youtube badge. It works really easy and shows the last 6 videos you have uploaded. Its pretty cool. I used the youtube class i made the other day and just copied the functionality straight across from my flickr badge. haha. its [...]

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So i have been writing drafts of posts with windows live writer. It does a decent job. It makes blogging a bit more easy for peeps who don’t really like working in a browser. I think along with the flickr plugin – it may be a decent blog editor for people like my mom and [...]

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So falbum, the awesome flickr photo gallery for wordpress, broke this afternoon around 4pm due to the API key for the plugin expiring. This is annoying and somewhat funny. It seems that as of right now – all falbum sites are broken. hah. Every single one. Doesn’t this seem to be a flaw in flickr’s [...]

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I am currently at home. Hanging out. Having a great time. It is sometime sooo nice to be home. I forget that about traveling.
Anyway. I have posted all the pictures from this weekend. We have Jon’s Graduation, some night juggling pictures and then pictures of Jon’s biodiesel setup.
The trip was nice.
Next weekend i am going [...]

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I am waiting for my flight. my family left to colorado about 30 minutes ago and my flight is delayed until 8:00. sad. only 4 hours. i thought it would be a good opportunity to go and find a book to read in the bad airport book stores. sadly there was NO interesting books. Only [...]

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I am lost in regards to what to listen to. I need something new. Or old. i don’t know.
This is really amazing. For some reason people are taking “famous” videos and making them “stable.” It is quite interesting and makes watching the videos a bit more mysterious – cuz the video becomes much more [...]

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so this weekend i hung out a lot. it was awesome. i came home from work early on friday (holiday) and hung out with matt and hiromi. we went and got beers, pop, cheese and thai food. then we watched new poilce story. so so good. it was about jackie chan – a screwed up [...]

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