http://lorennorman.com Loren\ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:53:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cara and I are currently on vacation to visit her family in Shawano, WI.  We'll be staying in a beautiful lake house, with the weather feeling mighty fine compared to back home in ATL.  I'm going to try to post videos from as many places as possible during our adventure. Here ... http://lorennorman.com/real-life/vacation-in-wisconsin/ A couple videos of me sitting in the bed of Chad's truck on the way home from the lab. Nothing terribly interesting, just playing with my new 3G wireless card and data plan. I really need to bring my camcorder so i can take better action shots on ... http://lorennorman.com/web-video/ride-home/ And I finally figured out how to fix it! UPDATE:  This set of instructions is for Version 1.0 of the plugin In your WordPress admin panel, click "Plugins", then click "Edit" next to the Seesmic plugin.  Now you'll be presented with the code for the Seesmic plugin.  All you really need to ... http://lorennorman.com/web-video/seesmic-wordpress-plugin-breaks-some-themes/ At this month's investment club meeting, we launched our website proper over at BenHurInvestments.com.  Much more than Just Another WordPress Blog, this site is dedicated to the ongoing investment activities of our club.  Our motto is "Empowering Personal Investment Through Group Education." What this means is that, above all, the point ... http://lorennorman.com/investment/investment-club-blog/ I haven't had time to cover this week's podcast, but i wanted to post it anyway.  Marty's coverage here. http://lorennorman.com/podcasting/podcast-3-pirate-radio/ Finished with East Atlanta Beer Festival! {seesmic_video:{"url_thumbnail":{"value":"http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/Bfa9wbFguq_th1.jpg"}"title":{"value":"EABF "}"videoUri":{"value":"http://www.seesmic.com/video/RU0qTMpzUN"}}} http://lorennorman.com/real-life/eabf-aftermath/ Today, i'm going to the East Atlanta Beer Festival with my buddy Tom. I am not going to think about my computer, my company, blogging, Twitter, or video on the web for about 5 hours straight (1pm - 6pm) because I will be tasting some of 150 beers and ... http://lorennorman.com/real-life/east-atlanta-beer-festival/ TechCrunch just alerted me to this interview with the Twitter co-founders, Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz), from this afternoon.  Here's the video, and below are some quotes, notes, and my analysis: A major strain on their system is power users. For example, people who are followed by tens ... http://lorennorman.com/startup-culture/the-update-on-twitter/ A couple of weeks ago, Adobe slipped this announcement past my radar screen. It seems we can download the Flash 10 Beta now (previously codenamed "Astro"), and it is chock full of new enhancements, most notably of which are access to Pixel Blender and 3D hardware acceleration. Pixel Blender ... http://lorennorman.com/web-development/on-flash-10-gpu-acceleration-and-history-repeating-itself/ As a social media marketer, I pay attention to technologies that let me build social web applications with ease. With so much social progress on the web every day, I like to be able to bootstrap someone else's functionality so that I can focus my efforts where they are ... http://lorennorman.com/web-development/communityengine-a-ruby-on-rails-social-networking-plugin/