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Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 7:23 AM by johnmont
One of my friends, and a former teammate, is Aaron Brethorst . For the longest time I thought of him as the amusing guy from VScore who attended shiproom. It was only later that I realized he was an accomplished photographer . The photograph below is Read More...
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"To Truly Understand What It Is to Be an American You Must Eat Wonder Bread"

Posted Friday, June 27, 2008 8:04 PM by johnmont
Earlier this week, two engineers from Microsoft in Germany (Sebastien Peray and Marcel Tilly) joined the Popfly team to work on adding a feature to Popfly. They invented a clever way to substitute one Popfly block for another a few months ago and were Read More...
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Screencasting the Hard Way

Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008 12:46 PM by johnmont
With today's update to Popfly , comes a new Popfly screencast. Or kind of a screencast. It turns out that when you leave a development team alone for a few days, they do strange and wonderful things. Like stage a live-action screencast that uses humans Read More...
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2008 Predictions

Posted Thursday, January 03, 2008 8:36 AM by johnmont
I predict that 2008 will have between 300 and 400 days. Most if not all will end in the letter "y." Similarly, here in Seattle most if not all will involve some form of precipitation. I predict that the US will have an election this year. A democrat will Read More...
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We Bought a Pig

Posted Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:03 PM by johnmont
Yesterday, at the Pigs on Parade auction we purchased a pig. If you've spent any time around downtown Seattle you've probably seen one of these illustrious beasts hanging around looking porcine. If you haven't spent any time around downtown Seattle, suffice Read More...
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Office Hijinks

Posted Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:16 AM by johnmont
You go away for a week and you get pwned. Office Hijinks Technorati Tags: office hijinks Read More...
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Coding Best Practice

Posted Friday, July 06, 2007 9:32 AM by johnmont
Courtesy Smalltalk Tidbits : Technorati Tags: humor , coding Read More...
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What "Vacation" Means During a Remodel

Posted Wednesday, July 04, 2007 10:38 AM by johnmont
I took this week off from work. Or I should say, I took this week off from going to the office. So far, in addition to doing quite a bit of email (that's the right verb, isn't it -- one "does" email?) and attending one teleconference (during which I invoked Read More...
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Maker Faire and Popfly Results

Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:12 PM by johnmont
Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some of the ducks that the kids painted, Popfly-style. Read More...
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Popfly Humor

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 2:32 PM by johnmont
Drew Bollman has posted his mashup wish list . He had me at #1. Read More...
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Maker Faire: Meet the Popfly Team

Posted Friday, May 18, 2007 1:58 PM by johnmont
Tonight a lot of my team and I head down to San Mateo, CA for O'Reilly's Maker Faire . I've never been and am pretty excited to see what people are up to -- things like the Fab@Home look neat. We'll be in the Microsoft Coding4Fun booth giving demos of Read More...
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Probably Old News to Everyone Else

Posted Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:54 AM by johnmont
Suddenly, antitrust law all makes sense. Read More...
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Are You a Dinosaur?

Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 8:58 PM by johnmont
Dinosaur . I love these guys. Read More...
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New Encryption Technique Discovered

Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 6:53 PM by johnmont
MARCH 06, 2007, REDMOND -- Microsoft today announced the creation of a new super-secure encryption technique, doubling previous techniques. Dubbed "ROT-26," the new technique applies a complex mathematical algorithm recently created in Microsoft Research. Read More...
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News: Terrier Alert Raised!

Posted Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:42 AM by johnmont
Please maintain your awareness of cute dog photos and (mostly) happy endings. Read More...
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