October 12th, 2007

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Paul, thanks for the shout out on newstoday.com. If you don’t know Paul “D5ive” Drohan you’ve seen his work on the web. He’s one of the most amazing Creative Director’s I know. Also, if you live in the San Diego area don’t miss his next art show — his print pieces are unreal.   Lastly, check out Paul’s posters for the band Transfer.

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October 8th, 2007

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As a follow up to my previous post, I now have a definition for “Hard Launch.” A hard launch is what happens when water from a planter box leaks (or in this case floods) your central fire alarm box. In my case this shorted the alarm system and set off the 120 decibel fire alarm at 6am for about a half-hour.

Now of course I was awake due to a scheduled 5am conference call. However, the fire department would not turn off the alarm because then they would be responsible if a real fire were to occur. I’ll end this by saying its nice I live downtown, in a typical neighborhood there would have been some very unhappy campers.

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October 2nd, 2007

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Either I have lost my ability to navigate the Internet, or the Wikipedia is missing an worthwhile entry. Within the “Industry” the term “Soft Launch” generally means that you are attempting to launch a website or campaign prematurely. This is usually caused by scope or feature creep, lack of resources, a shift in deadlines, or mismanaged stakeholder expectations.

If I missed the boat, please drop a link to the Wikipedia’s definition of a soft launch.

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September 10th, 2007

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Yes indeed its true, and I’m not talking about any recent work with Boost Mobile. Johan Bakken of www.styleboost.com has decided the new site is worthy of a listing of his gallery. If you aren’t familiar with the site its been showcasing websites since 2001. If you are familiar with the site you’ll recall the old upside-down mountain layout which was always one of my favorites. Regardless, its a great honor for the mention.

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September 5th, 2007

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So, It’s not the greatest source of information in the world, but its definitely a resource. If you are or have been working on a highly scalable project as I have I’d suggest a visit to HighScalability.com. There are some real world examples of web/server architectures for large commonly known sites such as Amazon, Digg, YouTube and so forth. It’s hard to say how accurate the information is, but its always nice to know what others are up too. I’m from the school of each problem has its own solution, but if you are in the field visit the site, read a few pages and share your thoughts.

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August 31st, 2007

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So, its official — self proclaimed Greg “Papa G” Huntoon announced the arrival of baby Zuri (which means Beautiful in Swahili) at 3:34am this morning. She’s 6lbs, 8oz and shares a birthday with my Grandfather (#2). Of course I reveal I was birthday #3, and brianjeremy.com makes #4.

Cheers.

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August 23rd, 2007

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After nearly ten years in the web industry i’ve managed to partially create over a dozen portfolio websites. However, my first actual personal site launched just this past soon and had after six months in the making it had a rather short shelf live.

And therein lies today’s birth of my new home on the “interweb.” A few notes about the production of this undertaking (a) first and foremost a big thank you to all who led a helping hand (b) secondly whomever gave me the idea that modifying a simple wordpress blog to suit my needs… gave bad advice. I dare go as far as to say that I “re-wrote” the system, but excluding design and integration I spent nearly forty (40) hours customizing the product to function as intended.

Lastly, all typical disclaimers apply (use Firefox not Internet Explorer). I’m of course not finish loading content and havent’ started authoring the case studies, there are a few bugs, and lastly if I didn’t credit you on a project you worked on it was an accident — please email me.

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August 20th, 2007

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This afternoon I was able to kill a few birds with one stone. I had an appointment in Beverly Hills real close to Greg’s new office at Real Pie Media. I had only seen Greg twice since the return of his honeymoon so it was great to catch up.  Plus, he took me to Peet’s and bought me some Chai tea which always makes me happy.

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