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By Andrew Shell on September 6, 2007
Some fun music videos I found surfing YouTube. Stella Rocket – Animals Like Honey – Airport Oldfish – Dot Dot Dot Portable Groove 09 – Rose Day Blue Sorbet – Satisfy Me Love is All – Make Out, Fall Out, Make Up Junior Senior – Can I Get Get Get
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By Andrew Shell on August 27, 2007
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/drains-of-canada-interview-with-michael.html I just came across this article today. It’s very interesting. I’ve always had an interest in exploring storm drains and tunnels and such. I wonder if Madison has drains like this. That would be really cool to see. I’d be worried about slipping and drowning though.
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By Andrew Shell on April 25, 2007
I’ve been programming in one form or another for as long as I can remember. Since my family got it’s first computer when I was five I couldn’t have programmed much before that. However I knew DOS well enough to help teachers with their computers in first and second grade so I was probably already [...]
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By Andrew Shell on April 18, 2007
So I discovered an incredibly cool artist recently. Her name is Joanna Newsom. She plays the harp and sings. Her voice sounds like a cross between Cerys Matthews (lead singer of Catatonia) and Dudley Moore. Here’s a video of her playing the song Peach, Plum, Pear.
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By Andrew Shell on January 26, 2007
BarCamp Madison, part of a fast-growing global movement among technologists to meet and share their knowledge and interests, is coming to Madison. Participants themselves bring different technologies and activities that they are passionate about to BarCamp. The only common element is that technologies discussed generally involve computers or computer-related businesses in some way. For example, [...]
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By Andrew Shell on January 8, 2007
So I’ve attended a couple of meetings so far for BarCamp Madison. For those of you not familiar with BarCamp… “A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants.” BarCamp Madison will [...]
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By Andrew Shell on November 5, 2006
So I am currently looking for good bug tracking software. I have a few requirements, some of which I’m sure are unreasonable. First the code needs to be able to run without errors, warnings or notices in PHP 5.2 (using php.ini-recommended) and it’s an extra bonus if it works under E_STRICT. It should either use [...]
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By Andrew Shell on August 7, 2006
Today I attended a Code and Coffee session of the Madison Ruby on Rails User Group. It was a lot of fun. It sounds like they have the guy from http://radiantcms.org/ doing a talk in October. I’ll probably start attending their events regularly. There were probaly about 13-14 people there. We met at Escape Java [...]
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By Andrew Shell on August 18, 2005
This Sunday I will be going to see Hilary Duff in concert at the Alliant Energy Center Coliseum. I’m very excited. I’ve been really getting into her music lately. I had pre-ordered her new CD “Most Wanted” and received it on Monday. It’s really good. I’m particularly fond of the songs Wake Up and the [...]
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By Andrew Shell on August 1, 2005
James says: Mr. Hugs…how do I get into our ATS internet page and update info? Username/password? Pepsi Achiever says: Well first you need to find Mr. Snuggles the update elf. Then answer his three riddles. Once you do that he will give you the magic key that can unlock the secret hollow in the land [...]
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