http://colinsteele.org Life... With Ice Cream Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:47:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So like many others, I am developing iphone applications.  If it didn't already seem perfectly clear to you that we technology people are just as lemming-like as say, commodities traders, or art collectors, well, I hate to break it to you. Yeah, so I've gotten sucked into the iphone hype too.  ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/42 Once upon a time, I p'shawed twitter.  "Who needs this goofy one-line blog thing?  It's like an IM away message, only without any notion of presence... duh." Then for the hell of it, I signed up.  And it hit me.  "This is brilliant.  It's like IM away status, only it's syndicated!" Now, ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/41 After the nausea-inducing trip to Myspace-customization-land, building a custom Facebook application (using Ruby on Rails and rFacebook) is a picnic.  Two and a half days to a working prototype.  Not bad. On a incredibly geeky side note, why doesn't IE support CSS selectors properly, even in IE7?  What year is it? http://colinsteele.org/archives/38 My client needs to put up scalable and extensible social networking sites for his clients.  I need to suss out which platform is the current best of breed.  Heretofore, their choice has been Drupal, which has certainly been good enough.  I've half a mind to say "If it ain't broke, ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/37 I've just completed my first custom Myspace page for a consulting client. Words that come to me are things like shameful, nauseating, broken, hopeless, confused, and ugly. Myspace, you should be ashamed of yourself. And you deserve every bit of the ass kicking that Facebook sends your way. If your ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/36 I really hate to trash local businesses.  Perfect Flavor is my very own local business.  I guess I live in a glass house.  But I can't help but launch this one out there into the blogosphere:  Don't hire Plan Electric of Charlottesville.  'Nuff said. http://colinsteele.org/archives/35 Happy accidents? Unforseeable synchronicity that happens from time to time when I try to make art. A confluence of factors - a dash of creativity, a pinch of technique, a spritzing of awareness - come together to create a piece of art that somehow comes together to create a whole ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/34 As reported in the inestimable International Herald Tribune (a good non-US perspective I like to keep tabs on), global food reserves are running low.  The green revolution not withstanding, the news troubles me.  Throw in global warming, the moves by multinational agri-conglomerates like ADM and Montsanto (in the US, this ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/33 Grist on christmas. http://colinsteele.org/archives/32 Lynsie and I have been practicing our own version of transparency, which includes things like posting our recipes for gourmet ice cream on the company blog.  But this slide (see to the right) is a new ballgame.  People ask us why Perfect Flavor does this, and the answers are pretty ... http://colinsteele.org/archives/31