March 2010
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“I wouldn’t sweat [it]. As I’ve always suspected, you’ll end up...”
– My dad, upon hearing me freaking out about not having a job
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Soulja Boy Tell Em (11)
松浦雅也 (5)
Gorillaz (4)
Nine Inch Nails (4)
Pixies (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The Verizon iPhone Rumor: 2010 Edition
Every. single. year. the same Verizon iPhone rumors surface and it’s like no one recalls the same “verified rumors” from the previous year.
The only thing that makes me highly skeptical of any of the Verizon iPhone rumors, is that Verizon still runs on CDMA, meaning that a Verizon iPhone would be useless in a year or so when everyone finally switches to their LTE networks.
Not...
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What the heck is 'SpenderBot', anyway?
SpenderBot is my first iPhone app. I decided I wanted to make something I needed and that I would use so I’m making the finance tracking app that I’ve been looking for for over a year.
The app will tie to a web-based service I’ve been working on to allow over-the-air syncing to an upcoming web service and desktop app.
Basically, you log your transactions as you go, and as you...
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Gowalla Guide for Spot Creating & Editing →
It’s like Gowalla took my Gowalla Nazi-ness (hope you read that correctly) and put it in a guideline blog post.
Rollup to iPad →
marco:
If there’s a single feature that elevates the iPhone from the rest of the pack, it’s the way that it urges and enables me to maximize the amount of time I spend thinking and doing and creating, each and every day. I’ve got ten minutes while I wait for a burger to arrive, three minutes at the post office while as a clerk explains the concept of a “forever stamp” to the unenlightened, six...
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Here's What Happened?
So I lost my job, Monday. Those closest to me know that I’m taking this a lot harder than usual and no one knows why.
Let me back up a bit.
I worked for a small web-development firm in Fredericksburg and for a while it was great. Then something happened and my performance began to deteriorate. Everyone around me, including myself, attributed this to being in an office, all by myself,...
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Seriously?
Why in the world would you hope that [something] fails? Wouldn’t it be much better and nicer for everyone if [it] succeeded and did amazing things like help people that need help?
How negative of a person do you have to be to wish failure upon [something], let alone a fellow human being and American citizen?
How petty do you have to be to wish and will negativity into a world you claim is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Gorillaz (14)
Jack’s Mannequin (3)
Dethklok (3)
Gorillaz feat. Bobby Womack & Mos Def (3)
Matt Pond PA (2)
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Gowalla trips are awesome.
I made a Gowalla trip for me and Heather’s birthday trip to New York, this weekend.
Check it out.
The trips feature in Gowalla is one of the many reasons I don’t understand why folks opt to use Foursquare.
My only gripe is that I can’t select a slick icon for it or maybe upload a photo to have thrown into a pin template or something.
All in all, though, I think this is an...
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Next Year, Right?: The Obligatory Post-SXSW Post
So for those that don’t know already, this past 4-ish days were spent in Austin, Texas for the SXSW Interactive event. Some call SXSWi (or “South By”, if you need to get to your buzzword-filled rant on social marketing quicker) a spring break for web folks and it seems that a lot of people come here for different reasons.
Of the people I got a chance to really have...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Gorillaz (55)
Jack’s Mannequin (29)
The Rentals (11)
Dethklok (9)
The Most Serene Republic (8)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Leaving on a jet plane... almost
Of all the things I need to get done in the next 15 hours, I’m currently stressing the following:
Leaving a project at work incomplete
Getting PIxelPipe set up to do what I want it to do without spamming everyone for the next 7 days
Getting http://alexstone.me/(sxsw/live/outside - haven’t picked a URI, yet) setup to do what I want
Getting http://alexstone.me set up to be some sort...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Gorillaz (175)
Jack’s Mannequin (127)
Allison Weiss (46)
Death Cab for Cutie (29)
k-os (15)
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This must be possible...
Okay, so the EyeFi card + service is pretty cool except for one major drawback:
You can only post to one service at a time.
Lame, right? Well fortunately for me, I know my way around an API and can build my own solution for this, combining PixelPipe (or direct APIs if I wanna get fancy… which I now do), CRON, and telling EyeFi to just send the files on over to my FTP server.
But before I...
NOTICE!
If I said I was working on something for you, pro-bono, now is the time to remind me. Making my Back-from-NYC Project To-Do List.
Basically, I need to clear my slate by the end of March and, as I recall, a lot of you were just asking for Wordpress themes or something.
I return from NYC on March 22 and plan on knocking out everything over the following week.
Shoot me an email at me@alexstone.me...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
k-os (87)
Selective Hearing (16)
Pogo (14)
Allison Weiss (12)
Alex Stone (11)
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alexstone.me
I couldn’t sleep last night and finally took a few minutes to build my personal website, alexstone.me.
I wanted a blog, but not really a blog (since this is my blog). Instead what I have (and what I wanted) is a single-purpose website devoted strictly to realtime current data.
Right now, I’m only have Last.fm and Gowalla data up (their new API is really nice), but over time...