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Twitter Updates
- Holy crap, Texas! Their education board is dictating textbooks for a large part of America. This is horrific: http://bit.ly/aJO8Ck about 23 hours ago from web
- Hah, so Gavin Newsom is running for Lt. Governor! It's the perfect do-nothing-job for a do-nothing-mayor. http://is.gd/amw1H about 1 day ago from Tweetie
- Disturbing circumstances: One of the cats figured out that he can sit in my office chair when I'm not around. Or if I am, my lap works too. about 1 day ago from Tweetie
- Watched Moon last night. Totally not what I expected, but still a very good movie. I enjoyed it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twuScTcDP_Q about 1 day ago from web
- I just ousted @jayzombie as the mayor of Papalote Mexican Grill on @foursquare! about 1 day ago from foursquare
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Out with landing pages!
If you’ve visited this site before, you might have noticed that going to the root url, daveschumaker.net, took you to a landing page. It listed links to various social networks, projects, photos, and such.
It was also kind of annoying. The bread and butter of this site were the blog and the photos posted on it. [...]
Rolling my own URL shortener
Thanks to the popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, URL shorteners are popping up everywhere. Bit.ly, one of the most popular shortening services, has raised over $2 million dollars in funding!
Despite their popularity, URL shortening sites are by no means a permanent fixture on the internet. A perfect example of this was tr.im, which [...]
Back Online with a New Design!
While updating some components of the blog this week, my website experienced a PHP out of memory error and ended up breaking the entire blog thanks to some corrupted files.
After rebuilding the database and reinstalling WordPress, it appears that I’m back in business! And with a new design. Enjoy!
Say hello to the Squid