My friend Dan has been raving about this band, Portugal, The Man for a while now. He said their latest CD, The Satanic Satanist, could be his album of the year. So, as usual I didnt bother listening to it, because he spends a great deal of time trying to convince me of things. I finally put it on my iPod, and I have to say its very good. I sort of hate it when he is right, but I do love good music.
Monthly Archive for November, 2009
I recently started using bit.ly for storing my bookmarks instead of delicious. While bit.ly isn’t entirely ready to be a bookmarking service for everyone, it does have some cool features, such as a public history, and saves me a hop for sites that I want to bookmark plus need a short URL in order to tweet.
In order to facilitate my new, higher volume, usage of bit.ly, I wrote a little bookmarklet hack that throws the current page into bit.ly and alerts back the shortened URL in case I need it.
I put together this form that will let anyone take advantage of the hack. You’ll just need to input your user name and bit.ly API key. Then you never have to worry about logging in again. Enjoy.
Just a quick note to say I started last week at bit.ly as the Lead Front-end Engineer. It’s my second attempt at a startup and so far it’s amazing. I’m very excited about learning Python and having a chance to own the products I work on. Unfortunately, new jobs usually mean significantly fewer blog updates for the first few months, but I hope to put together more tutorials like my extremely popular ffmpeg install post by the first of the year.
