2007 August Archive at Rik Abel

Archive for August, 2007

Where I am on my holidays…

Published on August 21, 2007 in google rocks and infinite recursion. 4 Comments

I am in Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. Yes, it is raining here too… But anyway, I just wanted to share the exciting news that google maps are now easily embeddable on any web page, just like YouTube videos. In fact, you can easily embed YouTube videos inside google maps which you have also embedded inside a web page (hint hint…click the blue pin) w00t! All this embedding stuff inside other stuff is very exciting, but I am supposed to be working hard, not ripping a hole in the fabric of space-time:

Yoink!

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Tweets on 2007-08-20

Published on August 20, 2007 in Tweets. 0 Comments

watching BSG #
blueprint, now tripoli, css frameworks a go go #
suffering from lackofinspirationitis #

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Tweets on 2007-08-18

Published on August 18, 2007 in Tweets. 1 Comment

reading about the social graph #
enjoying an almost surreally canadian conversation about relative merits of different chainsaw models #

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Tweets on 2007-08-15

Published on August 15, 2007 in Tweets. 0 Comments

yay! spook country arrived just in time to read on flight to vancouver. who knows, maybe i’ll bump into ‘bill’ gibson in town… #
i gotz my facebook in my netvibez #
off to limoncello for a #3 sarnie. num num #
actually, YES, that IS a chorizo in my pocket #
@bru: i know the feeling. try deleting lots of crappy music… #
@bru: ignore me, i’m clearly confoosing memory with disk space. eejit #
assessing risk of a caffeine OD if i have another mug of Hot Lava Java…ah, feck it! #
attempting to cultivate haute nerd intensity #

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Tweets on 2007-08-14

Published on August 14, 2007 in Tweets. 0 Comments

investigating blueprintcss: http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/ #
dear polish people, please stop eating all of our swans. thanks.just kidding! lubie wass szalenii polacy! #
@lloydDavis: actually, Poles and Lithuanians. in r country, eatin’ r swanz. and carp. it’s in the daily mail so it must be true… #
@LloydDavis: the only sensible answer is to close our borders to this rampaging central/eastern european swan-gobbling menace! #
@rossshaw: tell you what, I’ll install it now! #
playing scrabulous. piss poor letters so far… #
off to kill a swan for lunch. mmm…tasty tasty swan #
@rossshaw: your turn, mate #
calling it a day #

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Tweets on 2007-08-13

Published on August 13, 2007 in Tweets. 0 Comments

was anyone else licked by a cow on their morning commute? i thought not… #
proof, if proof be need be, of aforementioned cow lick: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rikabel/1102559638/ #
@daveknapik: fucking awesome, dude! #
struggling to see the point of mailplane, although thanks anyway neilio #
i think i’m already bored of facebook. but i still like twitter. for now. #
haha, bombarded with twitter updates from twitterlicious, mailplane, meebo and netvibes. overkill, perhaps… #
checkout process designs completed. time for a twix. #

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Tweets on 2007-08-12

Published on August 12, 2007 in Tweets. 0 Comments

thinking about checkout page design making head hurt #
"how can you be friends with someone who is not online?" #
@martina: tintagel? #
calling it a day, monged, after wrestling with checkout page design. time for wine, methinks. #

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