Slashdot

Originally uploaded by anwamehtar

Party! Update: I went to the Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party tonight held in Seattle. They’re holding ‘em all over the country and I was fortunate enough to make it to this one. There were piles of pizza from Costco, flats full of soda, and even a cake.

Best of all, however, was the ample conversation to be had with people easy to relate to. Why? Because all of us read Slashdot and are all therefore somewhat bent towards topics related to technology, computers, the internet, gaming, blogging, etc.

I had a great time, got a few email addresses, and hope to actually see some of these folks again.

Categories: Life, Tech
Tags: party, Slashdot

NEW ADDRESS: http://anwanore.com/projects/mytwitter — The plugin has a new address at a project page I created exclusively for the MyTwitter for Wordpress plugin

Plugin: MyTwitter
Current Version: 1.5 (Updated February 10, 2008)
Download (Zip) (from official Wordpress Plugins site)
Download (Zip) (from my server)
Note: Only download from sites you trust. I’ve seen a few illegitimate spam sites popping up with ripped-off copies of the text and files with no attribution.

About: MyTwitter allows users to display their Twitter status updates (tweets) on their Wordpress blog and update their status through the Options page. Includes customization options including number of recent twitters to display, formatting options, and stylesheets. It can be called as a function or used as a widget.

MyTwitter @ Twitter: http://twitter.com/MyTwitt3r

Please see the new project page for MyTwitter for installation assistance and to leave any comments about the plugin.

Categories: Tech
Tags: code, plugin, Twitter, Wordpress

Peanut butter jelly time

Originally uploaded by anwamehtar

Oh yeah oh yeah. And a book to reread after.

Categories: Life
Tags: jelly, mobile, peanutbutter

Secrets

Originally uploaded by anwamehtar

Barely caught the last bus home from the book presentation.

It was awesome. Frank Warren had some good anecdotes, talked about how PostSecret got started, shared some of the secrets, showed some he can’t put in the books for copyright/legal issues, and answered some questions. I managed to get him to sign my copy of his newest book, A Lifetime of Secrets. I cut in line by asking politely if I could because I had 15 minutes to speed-walk to catch a bus I’d never taken before.

Fortunately, I caught the bus. My bag slightly heavier carrying a couple hundred peoples secrets in it, I made it back to the home town, disembarked, and walked the last half mile home.

Categories: Books
Tags: mobile, PostSecret, secrets

It’s been a while since I paid attention to baseball, but the Colorado Rockies performance at the tail end of the 2007 season and into the playoffs has me paying attention. It helps that I used to be an avid baseball follower, particular in the days of Colorado’s Blake Street Bombers (Larry Walker, Andres Galaraga, Dante Bichette, Vinny Castilla).

Now, they’re in the National League Championship Series with a 3-0 lead (best of 7 games) over the Arizona Diamondbacks. They’ve won 20 out of their last 21 games. This is an incredible winning streak.

Jayson Stark (ESPN - article):

Hang on. It gets better. How about Mel Ott, Carl Hubbell and the 1936 Giants. That’s the last National League team to understand what it feels like to ride one of these 20-1 tsunamis.

One more win to get to the World Series.

Categories: News
Tags: baseball, Colorado Rockies