Dawn Patrol

The new Yahoo! Video -code named project Playground- launched yesterday in the US. Various International Tiger Team members worked on this project: Marco, Tak, Daniel and myself. I've architected the i18n and l10n of the site. Can't wait for the localized sites to launch in the near future.

Here are a couple of videos in the new embedded player, which is part of the new site. They showcase 16x9 wide screen support, the awesome and fun video team and some high quality user contributed content.

The Launch of the New Yahoo! Video

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal

PostSecret - A Valentine Video

Postcard to promote Paintings & Prints by Ginger Crawford Tolonen on exhibit at Artemis Healing Center in Los Gaots from Jan 25 - Apr 25 2008.

By the ever entertaining Joy of Tech.

Today I'm publishing 3 Ruby on Rails plugins:

• Crumblr, a Ruby on Rails plugin to protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery.
• ImageBundle, a Ruby on Rails plugin to automatically bundle local images into CSS sprites.
• StringExt, a Ruby on Rails plugin that adds class method rand to class String.

All plugins are listed on Agile Web Development's Ruby on Rails plugin directory: Crumblr, ImageBundle & StringExt.

If you haven't already, install rapt, a script/plugin replacement. Rapt taps directly into Agile Web Development's plugin directory. Now you can search the plugin directory instead of having to hunt for plugin sources.

Let me know what you think about these plugins.

Casper's hand outlined on paper. He must have been about 15 months at the time.

The fine people of the Walker Art Center recently asked me if they could use some of my photos on flickr in their catalog and on the center's web site. Specifically if they could use some of my Millenial Territory Orchestra photos for Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra performance on Dec 1, 2007 at the McGuire theater.

I'm honored that both the Millennial Territory Orchestra and Walker Art like my photos of MTO's performance at the Jazz Standard in NYC well enough to represent MTO. MTO's page in the catalog and the oversized postcard of the Walker Art '07-'08 program featuring the same photo are gorgeous. See the scans included in this blog post.

See MTO's performance at the McGuire theater for use of some additional images. Go see the Millennial Territory Orchestra should you be near Minneapolis on Dec 1st, 2007, they're fantastic.

To verify ownership of this blog on Technorati, Technorati's spiders look for a link to my Technorati Profile at the Code Mill.

So now there is one. Let the spiders feast!

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I've started to experiment with SketchUp. SketchUp is an amazing 3D modelling program. Using simple geometric building blocks one can create sophisticated realistic 3D models. I'm going to use SketchUp to design our new workshop/barn.

A few years ago Tatyana took me to see this house in the shape of a barn that she had come across. I took some pictures of it because we both liked the shape. SketchUp allowed me to load the image and create a model of it. The result you see on the left. Play the video to see the model rotate. The photo of the barn has been draped over the model to texture it.

It turns out that the ratio of length and width of the model exactly match the ratio we could build a barn in on the site we have in mind.

Oversized postcard to promote Artemis Healing Center's Sampler Day, come Saterday Aug 18, 2007.

Oversized postcard sent out to Tatyanna Teeuwisse's clients to inform them of Tatyanna's new contact information.

Postcard to promote Pascale Wowak's Images For Life Exhibit at Artemis Healing Center from Aug 17 - Oct 25, 2007.

The exhibit opens tonight, can't wait to see how they'll transform the clinic compared to the previous exhibit.

Our friend Angela Wilson is opening Avedano's Holly Park meat market in SF's Bernal Heights.

The space they're located in was historically the home of a butcher shop (1901). The most recent incarnation was as Cicero’s Meat Market, renamed to Avedano’s in honor of the proprietor's Italian grandparents who emigrated from Asti.

The sign in front of the store is now a historic land mark that had to stay. The store is once again a meat market but this time with extra's: seafood, great sandwiches, fresh produce, cheeses, teas, agua frescas and more.

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Casper rocking out to the Arbiters's remix Pappa Was A Crashing Car, shot by his grand parents last winter when they came to escape another Montana winter.

After months of furniture walking Casper has taken the plunge and is now walking across the room.

Inspired by his friend Noah, Casper took his 1^st unassisted steps on Tue Jun 05, 2006. The photos below were taken 2 days later.

Casper loves to walk. He will clap for himself when he succesfully has walked across the room.

Soquel is what Brooklyn is to New York.