March 2010
1 post
15 Dollah' Standing Desk
We all know that we sit down too much during the day. This is true of teachers, people who work in the Internet sphere, etc, and etc. How can we avoid this you might ask? Well how about a cheap-as-chips standing desk that can be found at Target. Find yourself a solid wooden table, I chose red but there are multiple bright colors (as well as “natural”) and a stack-able shoe rack. ...
January 2010
12 posts
D/T
Currently this place is being replaced by another micro blogging platform. Not to worry, flirting with technology is easy, loving something is difficult.
The Bike Revolution's Beginnings
This guys seems to be riding around New York City for the mere fun of high-fiving people’s hands who are hailing cabs. Now generally I would implore a level headedness about the whole situation and claim his actions as heresy due to harassment of lack-a-daisy New York “foreigners” who forget to lower their hands as bikers pass however; it is simply too damn funny. Of course...
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Out of place
There is definitely a theme going on here…at Lowe’s motorspeedway. Although there seems to be a serious ugly duckling Posted via email from CloudBacon | Comment »
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Mint Grabs An Eskimo's Ass
If you were under a rock for the entirety of the day, you might not have any clue that Mint.com was bought by the likes of Intuit. Intuit is the owner of a little piece of shitty software called “Quicken.” Quicken happens to be one of the numbest names for software ever. For a long time this software was really the dominator in the field of personal money management software. ...
Labor Day
Labor day is for suckers! This is the current work situation at the new house. It might be an amazing day outside (and tennis sealed that deal) but sometimes your love of work holds up nothing. Someday the side projects will pay for it all! Braden Douglass t: twitter.com/bradendouglass q: “Sent from somewhere over the rainbow…rainbow created exclusively on the IPhone.” ...
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Another One Bites The Dust
Labor day weekend getting to my secon and final Snow Leopard update. The 17 was the last to go due to some serious infrequent use on account of no desk syndrome. Soon…very soon Braden Douglass t: twitter.com/bradendouglass q: “Sent from somewhere over the rainbow…rainbow created exclusively on the IPhone.” Posted via email from CloudBacon | Comment »
Apple's FCC Ruling Oddities
I know, I know another comment in an already filled sea of news and blogs talking about the Google, Apple, AT$T trifecta of FCC awesomeness. I am not quitting so try to hold your breath and I will refrain from boring you too much. However, have you read this Apple comment on how they approve the apps…all 8500 a week? They set two (potentialy awesome) folks on the trail of each app to see...
Why Twitter Will Never Replace RSS
A lot of folks these days…well a couple of days ago (shit, blogging is big again, who knew?) had this crazy idea that twitter could relieve themselves of their Rss fix. This was mainly due to what can easily be seen in exhibit 1. There were so many folks out there simply diving into their Rss feed and reproducing each article as a new tweet. The folks who followed you would adopt the...
LaCie? Never Again!
I am almost positive that all of you people know what LaCie is, however; in the case that you don’t, they make external hard drives and monitors. Sure their monitors are a bit on the pricey side but, let’s face it they are some of the best when it comes to color reproduction. For a long time I thought their hard drives were also, really quite solid. They have never failed me (I am...
Did I say Something Yesterday?
Just finished an interesting read (linked below) of some fairly seedy stuff going on at simple PC repair shops around the London UK area. I do believe that I maybe…hmm, can’t remember. Oh right I mentioned incompetence in my last post, people can avoid this stuff with a simple question: “So do you all have any certifications?” If the answer is yes, walk the hell out of...
Do You Know What IT Fluff Is?
So, as many of you out there may have no idea about, I have been looking for a job now for roughly 3 or so months. Never will I back down and say the market is in turmoil or in a spot of bother however, the market for great IT has always been a little iffy. Here is the issue: most people need folks who know what they are doing when it comes to computers / servers / smart...
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IT "Rinky Dickness"
Ok, so as I do my generic Monday, Wednesday, Friday job hunt and resume push I came across this add in Craigslist. Whoever posted it, I smudged out the email address (just search the job posting # if you care) has their head shoved right up their rectum. Basically it asks for a person that only knows windows XP (OSX, Vista, 7, Linux blah, blah, blah), HAS some kind of certifications (if you are...
August 2009
1 post
listening to "Regina Spektor - Samson" →
Relaxing at the very moment, thinking of delving into some objective c…any ideas?
July 2009
3 posts
Faithful Books
The name on the trsilor is faithful books and yep it is taking up 4 spots at a sarbucks. Genius! Posted via email from My Mapple | Comment »
listening to "Samson - Regina Spektor" →
Taking a second to relax. First LSAT test and not too bad of a score. Long way to go though!
Helpful tip #1
When sitting down for some quiet time away from studying make sure you mean serious business. For example this magazine will scare most solicisitors away in an instant. Posted via email from My Mapple | Comment »
June 2009
7 posts
Search...Fin
I love Macs, sorry but it is completely true. Nope, not a fan boy either so if you want to think that…piss off. In addition, a couple posts ago there was a quote about wanting to find an Apple company niche in the Orlando Florida area. After talking with a couple of high end consultants who tailor there specifically, there is none. Nope not even some, seems like our odd Southern brethren...
A Step
Women are notourious beer haters. I know this is a tremendous overexageration but in the entirety of my life the ber drinking women have always been the ones that were no fun to hang out with. So when I finally found a beer my wife would like I seriously needed a picture for me and the web. The beer all you loving beer wishing wife…husbands might ask? Sam Adams blackberry witbier. Go and...
How Bad Are Florida Drivers?
Well if you must ask, they are bad enough to drive a smart car in the fastest lane of a speedway. Oh yeah , for the folks who have no idea why this is bad: the Smart Car is cheap because it is almost solely meant for city driving.
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listening to "Goo Goo Dolls-Iris - " →
Oh man, rocking it so hard from the 90’s. Music has sure come a long way and the ride is amazing
Searching for Some Tech Love
So as of right now, I have been to the most ridiculous interview for a contract IT job that I have ever been to. I walked up to the door, looked back across the road and saw two dogs fighting it out behind a wire fence and realized that perhaps this was not the most “tech” inspired house in the world. In fact it was not at all; I ended up asking all the questions and anything that...
Craigslist Tech Ad Amazingness
Ok, so if for some bizarre reason you were looking at my blog before, this will fix the Craigslist issue I was having earlier. Here is a picture that encompasses all techie frustrations when it comes to looking for a new job…priceless! Posted via web from Braden Douglass’ Posterous | Comment »
Craigslist Tech Listing (Priceless)
Click here to download: Picture1 (105 KB) Hopefully this comes out on Posterous but I have recently moved and have been surfing around on the Craigslist tech ads. I stumbled upon this one and died when I read it. Give it a whirl! Posted via email from Braden Douglass’ Posterous | Comment »
May 2009
5 posts
Marriage Tastic Yearly Book
Brainstorming a new book, just got married, maybe I should data mine for a year and see how it turns out? Posted via email from Braden Douglass’ Posterous | Comment »
Marriage Tastic Yearly Book
Brainstorming a new book, just got married, maybe I should data mine for a year and see how it turns out? Posted via email from Braden Douglass’ Posterous | Comment »
“All the luck in the world isn’t gonna change things for these guys....”
– Mike McDermott
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listening to "The Rascal King - The Mighty Mighty... →
Relaxing and doing it old school like. Miss these guys
April 2009
6 posts
“More people are killed per year by deer over sharks (priceless!)”
– Seth Godin
Why Twitter DMing For New Followers is Stupid
The Issue
You are happily moving about the web and you stumble onto this website called ‘Twitter.’ Maybe you found it due to your love of Oprah or perhaps your friend pushed you there because they thought it would be a good thing for you. As a result, you run through the signup fields and start looking for people to follow. Soon you find that a couple of people have direct messaged...
“I listened to someone use the words “I should make it worth my...”
– Yours Truely
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Lacie Rugged Drive Review
Hey guys and gals, I am going to try and put up a review of these cool little drives sometime today. I do not think that tumblr is the best place to do a review so this will go up over at My Untitled Folder.
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WatchGood People Day was started last year by Gary Vaynerchuk and is a day to toot the people in life that absolutely crush it but stay out of the lime light. Even though they are quiet and doing their own thing, they still deserve a ton of recognition, here is my entry
March 2009
8 posts
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WatchHow to handle a facebook redesign. Do not fret all you haters out there, the instructions are really quite easy to follow. We, and when I say we I mean us as an internet community need to be much more receptive to change. Sure there are some solid reasons to be irate with a redesign but Facebook is a tool and that tool owes the haters out there nothing. Refrain from taking your haterade and...
“Never, ever cave to people complaining about a design change (facebook?)...”
– BSD
“Bluetooth keyboards with iPhone Os 3.0 and there is no reason to own a netbook....”
– Me!
“Outlook express…the absolute and complete bane of my windows consulting...”
– Braden Douglass
In a Url
Twitter has become a tremendously popular platform for conversing with a large amount of people. One of its greater points is that those conversations are required to stay within a small amount of characters (140 to be exact). This leads to problems when you want to share links that are hugely long along with information about them. A long time ago…maybe late 2008 the ideal way to share...
Starting
I have decided to keep trailing on when it comes to my tumblr design. I really am struggling with the design…api maybe but I will sludge on and most definitely will keep plugging it away. Until then I will do this…simply start. My name is Braden, and my mission is to meet you guys and gals, not to have some paltry relationship but something that we can have fun and especially drink...
February 2009
3 posts
Updatin'
Hello all, I am glad that you have somehow reached my site. I am creating my own tumblr template right now under bdouglasstest.tumblr.com. Go over there and either comment there or comment under this post on the upcomming designs. Thanks, peace.
“When you think you have wrangled in absolutely all those to-dos and checked them...”
– Braden Douglass (Crushing)
Hello Tumblr World
Hi guys and gals, this is a test post good to know that bradendouglass.com is now pointed to here.