May 2009
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Track the swine flu on a map
You can see a bigger version on Google Maps
April 2009
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Air quality by county - San Bernardino (my county)... →
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Great tips on adding a human element to your... →
This is form design guru Luke Wroblewski’s summary of a talk given by Bill DeRouchey from the 2009 Wep App Summit in Newport Beach, CA.
Simple, take-home tips for giving your apps a bit of much-needed personality. Too many apps are boring and “stuffy” make it personal, make it fun and people will like it.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to...
– Henry David Thoreau
This is one my favorite quotes. I used to have it framed on my desk.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the...
– Taken from “On The Shortness of Life” by the stoic philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca
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Switched to tumblr - lovin' it
I just dumped my old blogging platform for the slick, sexy and completely customizable tumblr. I was sick of dealing with scum-of-the-earth spammers cluttering my site with comments linking to sites offering “infinite bliss”.
Now with tumblr, I’m in control, yet I don’t have to worry about running my own wordpress or django app on a host somewhere. I can just use it to...
This is pretty funny: http://tweetingtoohard.com/ (via @ericflo)
I just changed my twitter username to my full name: HenrikJoreteg, supposedly my followers don’t have to change anything, guess we’ll see =)
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Guess I was out of the loop, apparently oprah started tweeting last week. Soccer moms are already all a’twitter.
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Average Annual Vacation Days, USA v. World
It’s an interesting set of numbers and it says a lot about national values in the US. However, maybe our values need a second look:
The following is an excerpt from the blog of Tim Ferris: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/the-truth/#_usa_world
Average Annual Vacation Days
Italy42France37Germany35Brazil34Britain28Canada26Japan25USA13 Is it any wonder that US Bureau of Labor Statistics...