14 Feb

Valentine’s Cards that Don’t Suck

When you care enough to be ironic, send the very best. Nothing says “I love you” like the time and effort it takes to type your email address in a web form and hit submit. If you’re really in love, try actually copying the image into a new email message manually.
God damn, that’s [...]

13 Feb

Obama Kicks

I’m not sure what the story is on these fly Obama kicks but I need a pair. Do you think I could pull them off?
What would the McCain shoes look like? Velcro lunch lady sneakers maybe? With premium bridge support.

13 Feb

I’m a Kennedy

OK, I’m not really. But apparently Jack Worthington is.
Meet the man who claims to be the long lost son of JFK. Worthington has just made his entrance into public life by talking to papers in his home of Vancouver. There is no DNA evidence yet, but he claims his mother was very close to [...]

13 Feb

You Missed Darwin Day

Yesterday was Darwin Day. You missed it and I forgot to publish my post about it. I hope you remembered Charles Darwin, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.
Next year, be sure [...]

11 Feb

Obama Beats Clinton

…at the Grammys, that is.
Although I’d love to hear this chap sing some karaoke anytime, it was a spoken-word award for “The Audacity of Hope” that Barack Obama picked up a Grammy — edging out Bill Clinton. It’s actually Obama’s second Grammy, but now he and Amy Winehouse will have something to talk about.
I [...]

10 Feb

Using Your URL for Your OpenID

I’m a big fan of OpenID. I’m also a big fan of neat packages where everything is branded beautifully clean-like. (Did that make sense?)
I dig custom Basecamp URLs, for example. In the same way, I also dig branding my OpenID url. This means instead of using the default MyOpenID url vocino.myopenid.com I [...]

10 Feb

Travis: Now in Your Bathroom

I get literally thousands of emails per hour begging — no, pleading — with me to make an iPhone-optimized interface to Vocino.com.
It goes something like “Oh please Travis, I absolutely can’t live without your content for 10 seconds. I need to check your site from my toilet. For the love of god!@#$” [...]

   
 

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I am a web entrepreneur (whatever that is) focused on standards-based development. I currently live and work in Palm Beach, FL.

This blog is about me and my passion for art, science and technology. I do, however, often veer off topic a bit when I have some random thought I just have to get out there.

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