tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65636622008-03-31T17:21:36.851-05:00TwinsenBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-1526442684744307002008-01-29T12:21:00.000-05:002008-01-29T12:26:40.955-05:00

I've decided to try my hand at a new (daily) blog. Feel free to stop by. I am still in the process of redesigning this site though, keep an eye for a new look, and some Flex related posts soon.

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-16419064982525096862007-12-25T18:01:00.000-05:002007-12-25T18:27:40.437-05:00

I have to hand it to the Chinese. They are one seriously prolific manufacturing power house of a country. I don't think my son received a present this Christmas that wasn't 'Made in China'. Usually there's a US company serving as the brand, only an inspection of the fine print would yield the originating source, but this year it was a little easier to figure out which were hot out of the

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-29044797561181533102007-11-12T21:48:00.000-05:002007-11-12T21:57:53.064-05:00

I recently installed Mac OSX Leopard and have been looking forward to using the Time Machine backup feature. I regularly trash hard drives, so regular backups would be a good habit to get into. I went out and bought a 500GB FreeAgent USB 2.0 drive to do the job. Long story short, I fired up Time Machine and it wouldn't recognize the drive (no error messages at all). After futzing around for

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-84721739912937278572007-10-14T18:46:00.001-05:002007-10-14T18:46:40.235-05:00

Hmmmmm Originally uploaded by CoreyL Ready for a WHAT!?

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Painterly Still Life Originally uploaded by CoreyL In the doctor's office read about a technique for painting with light, in order to reproduce a classical painterly style.I threw some fruit and interesting textures onto my bar and my sister used her Canon 20D (100 ISO, 15s) in pitch dark while I swung a flashlight around.Pretty cool stuff... I could have gone over the top and slapped on

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-6894560923424376922007-10-04T16:22:00.000-05:002007-10-04T16:23:55.179-05:00

Had a great time at Adobe MAX this year. For a brief writeup, check out my post - over here....

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I'm sure some of you are familiar with the SSL/Cache-Control header issue and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. When Flash attempts to load data (e.g. XML) from an HTTPS url and if the serving host specifies a 'no-cache' header (or equivalent), the data returned to Flash is invalid. Well, we just recently ran into a slightly different issue with IE6 related to a specific combination of headers (

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I've created a little bouncing ball sample for Adobe AIR (derivative of course of our stock Boxely example some of you may be familiar with). You simply run the AIR applet and the ball will do its thing. You can pick it up and toss it as well and it will be constrained to your primary display. I just wanted to demonstrate to the Adobe folks that their system capabilities class is not quite

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-41895298765490535442007-08-06T08:12:00.000-05:002007-08-06T08:49:22.589-05:00

I've been wading through Omniture SiteCatalyst reports for the past week or so, analyzing site traffic for several new websites we've released here at AOL. I can only imagine the subscription rate we're paying Omniture for their services, given the fact that AOL is an enterprise ripe for the picking and all. Their technology and tools are very very powerful however and I got to wondering if there

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-26493733560835968452007-07-23T12:23:00.000-05:002007-07-27T07:37:27.630-05:00

Working on some nifty flash gadgetry for a site called CircaVie at AOL. Essentially the site lets you create multimedia timelines (consisting of photos, video, and text). Some potential use cases would include family or individual history, work history, art portfolio... etc. Once you've authored a timeline you can publish the widget on your own site. We're still working some kinks out of the

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-8046619871966824872007-06-05T14:28:00.000-05:002007-06-05T17:54:25.930-05:00

Ran into an unfortunate problem with ActionScript 3 and the Flash 9 player, when running inside Firefox on a Mac (Firefox 2.0). I've created an interactive that allows the user to essentially 'throw' the canvas around. The user clicks, drags, and lets go. Depending on the velocity of their drag at the time they release, the canvas will scroll and pan accordingly. This functionality relies on

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-14505893398615285522007-04-29T05:51:00.001-05:002007-04-29T05:55:10.942-05:00

Hot Fuzz.... Brilliant! Best movie I think I've seen in quite awhile. Maybe even since Shaun of the Dead. :)

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A while ago I wrote about stumbling across Kyle Gabler's game sketches and other creations. After graduating he ended up at EA Maxis prototyping game ideas. I couldn't imagine they would be able to keep him cooped up for long. Seems he's gone off and started his own game company, 2D Boy (www.2dboy.com). To start they've flushed out Goo a bit. Niice. I wish Kyle and Ron huge success. I'm

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-8891719250767602532007-02-25T00:33:00.000-05:002007-02-25T15:48:16.565-05:00

So I was a little bored today....emptied my bookshelves at home, spent four hours organizing my books in a 8x30 grid, and snapped this picture... ...(no, not really). Been playing with GuruLib. Promising concept but I suppose my UI standards are too high - wish they could get a face lift. Took only about 45 minutes or so to key in the names of all the titles in my bookshelves, then I exported

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-84754297719653072007-02-22T11:08:00.000-05:002007-02-25T15:45:54.721-05:00

For some reason I prefer to work (code or write), with the presence of music or television. The world feels a bit less empty I guess. Typically when home I can just flip on the TV and I have an ambient content source. I have been looking for something equivalent to a web based television channel, that streams non-stop. But preferably something I can program with my tastes and interests at the

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Unintentional porn of the day...as seen on Yahoo's homepage today. "Which (open air quotes) energy bar (close air quotes) is best for you!?". Oh my...

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Sigh...I had such high hopes. In less than two hours I've run into so many issues with this over engineered OS. I purchased the upgrade to Home Premium this weekend and crossed my fingers that it would be a smooth process. I was successful but it wasn't without serious stressors on my patience. Installation: I attempted to be a good citizen and run the freely available upgrade advisor,

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While driving home from work (you have to do something to keep from going crazy on such a tedious commute), I had a bit of a Jack Handey moment. Got to wondering... have I seen anything in my life that the greater majority of the world population hasn't? Or even more profound, have I ever observed something in my life that nobody else but me has witnessed? Have you? The former is probably

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-3121777492101185872007-02-02T09:14:00.000-05:002007-02-11T10:19:04.720-05:00

For an eclectic, brainy, bumper-car ride, add metamerist to your blogroll.

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I've always wanted to join an adventure club. By adventure, I don't mean extreme sports or base jumping necessarily. I'm not even sure anyone's ever actually created an adventure club of the like I'm thinking, but I've always wanted to be a part of one all the same. The kids in Stand By Me or... The Goonies for instance, are my kind of adventurers. Or consider the Sleep City crew. I've

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Men, lend me your ear, give me a hand on this one - I'm opening a can of worms here, I understand. Before I dig myself an early grave by posting this entry, I thought I'd say upfront that I love my wife dearly. Now...on to the matter at hand. A question for those of you who are married with children. Who usually cooks, does the grocery shopping, cleans the house, and does the evening dishes?

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From John Chow, top eight Google adsense money makers (approximate dollar amount per month received from Google corporate): Markus Frind, $300,000, PlentyOfFish.com Kevin Rose, $250,000, Digg.com Jeremy Shoemaker, $140,000, ShoeMoney.com Jason Calacanis, $120,000, Weblogs David Miles, $100,000, FreeWebLayouts.net Tim Carter, $30,000, AskTheBuilder.com Joel Comm, $24,000, Miscellaneous Sites

Twinsentag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6563662.post-32663518076398240402007-01-13T15:03:00.001-05:002007-01-13T15:24:13.650-05:00

So, I've attempted to put myself in the shoes of those visiting the website I work on (Revolution Health) - and set a goal for myself of losing 15 pounds.  Today was the day I finally saw the big 179 staring back at me!  My progress to date as presented by the weight tracker tool I've been using- 194 to 179 !!! Which reminds me... been procrastinating a bit and haven't blogged about my new day

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So on her way to Maryland to cash in her $1000 scratch off lottery ticket, my wife totals her car one mile away from the lottery vendor. Apparently she's fine, still on the side of the road working out the rental car and towing issues as I write this. Too good to be true they tell ya... money does seem to be the root of all evil, time and time again.

Twinsen