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MobileGates has just published two more of my iPhone apps (links go directly to iTunes)
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Simon Says Fart
Simon Says Party
Each is 99¢, and each is a memory sequence game like Simon, but with real sounds instead of abstract beeps. Multiplayer mode has you do a task, like a punishment, when you lose. [...]

My employer, MobileGates, has just published my first three iPhone apps on the application store. (links go directly to iTunes)
FartMobile
BurpMobile
SnoreMobile
If you require farts or other such noises on your iPhone, you will find these apps exceptional samples of their genre.
Each is a sound machine for the referenced body noise. Each includes a timer, a [...]

I started what I call a “microproject” at the end of January. It’s a twitter stream called AppDuJour.
AppDuJour brings you a single short review of a great iPhone app each day via Twitter. I looked around for something like it, but no one else seemed to be doing it. There are [...]

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Check out my photoset on Flickr to see how I made roast duckling and a lovely duck gravy.

I’ve been working on this site for a month, & I think it’s ready to go live. There’s still features to add, and there’s surely massive flaming errors yet to come…
http://classimy.com/
It’s a classified ads site between Craig’s List and eBay, focused on face to face sales for cash, with a streamlined interface and (soon) [...]

I wanted to give my Ruby on Rails app a simple jQuery driven custom boolean field, styled as a lock for security purposes. You know, click on the lock and it opens, click on it again and it closes. Just like the lock there to the right - go ahead, click on it [...]

I need to start this off by saying that I did, in fact, vote against Proposition 8. A great many of my friends are gay, I support them with all of my heart, and fully understand why this means so much to them. But I feel like I didn’t really stick to my [...]

In the interest of saving money, breaking the cycle of eating fast food twice a day, and cleaning the detritus from my pantry, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to trim my grocery budget to ZERO and commit to eating whatever I had in the house until it runs out. I had bought [...]

Not sure if anyone is still reading here, but I thought I’d mention that my (grand)father passed away a couple of hours ago.
It’s not a terrible shock - he’s been declining for, years, really. For a long time he’s been asking “why won’t jesus take me?” and wanting to die. The past few [...]

I got called for jury duty this week, got released yesterday, here’s the description I wrote for my boss:
I got potentially picked for a jury, gang member with face tattoos, two counts (1) felony possession of firearm, (2) possession of marijuana with intent to sell. 36 brought in, 12 needed, 18 interviewed in the first [...]