LifePortal — Rough Draft
You know how mint.com aggregates personal banking information? What if there was a site that aggregated all kinds of information? A dashboard for your life?
A single site where you can see how much you owe on your car, when your next insurance premium is due and if there are any recalls on your car.
A single [...]
Spry Proof-of-Concept
Posted by me in JavaScript, Programming on May 14th, 2010
I’ll post details later, but basically this uses Adobe Labs’ Spry AJAX framework to process a single xml file. The goal was to provide a searchable catalog from a single file. The plan is to augment this with catalog images, more data to search and maybe even a pretty interface.
I will say that Adobe could’ve [...]
The Best Barber for Kids in Athens
Jonah has had maybe 10 or 12 haircuts in his life. (He’s 5 years old.) Each haircut has required a unanimous act of the US Congress, the British Parliament, the UN and 17 lesser known countries. Each haircut has resulted in knock-down, drag-out, blood-curdling fits of anguish. And that was just the barber. Jonah, forget about [...]
How to Train Your Dragon
We saw it today. It was a very good movie. I highly recommend it.
HotWheels Color Shifter Roof
I wish roofs could use the same tech that they put into HotWheels color-shifting toys. A light colored roof in the hot summer and darker in the winter.
