tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-112676282008-02-27T22:28:34.632-05:00Jesse BeachBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-3665673230200395402008-02-27T22:25:00.003-05:002008-02-27T22:28:34.665-05:00

We just launched the new everyzing.com corporate website after a long stretch of design and implementation. I'm quite pleased with it. It's on a wordpress installation. I'm quite impressed with wordpress as a web site substrate. It took a couple weeks to get the whole thing up and running and now our PR folks can happily publish pages and posts at their leisure.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-90085560021538435822008-02-16T14:36:00.003-05:002008-02-16T14:37:12.507-05:00

I've changed the location of my RSS feed to the following: http://metaphoria.splendidnoise.com/atom.xml Please update your readers and feeders. Thanks

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-47385457706565737012008-02-09T17:54:00.000-05:002008-02-09T18:00:37.209-05:00

The Designer's Guide to Installing WAMP, Eclipse and Flex This guide is intended to help attendees to the Boston Interaction Design Association series on prototyping in Flex install the necessary development environment on their computers. If you're not part of this group, you might find it helpful nonetheless especially if you're not a development focused individual who justs wants

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-79431345710938208742007-08-26T23:54:00.000-05:002007-08-27T00:01:23.834-05:00

The point to remember about the current frenzy over social networks is that this period of innovation is equivalent to the introduction of Netscape in 1995. We are at the very beginning of the social, interconnected, people-centered Web. It’s the Stone Age of the social graph. We are just beginning to create useful tools for living in the digital age, mapping the human social genome into the

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-52188387027890400742007-08-24T12:06:00.000-05:002007-08-24T12:07:16.224-05:00

The number of emails indexed on my computer.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-55896103338154447442007-08-23T16:01:00.000-05:002007-08-23T16:07:50.252-05:00

Working on a startup feels like you're standing at the edge of the ocean at high tide. The work piles up. You have 17 programs open on your computer and each browser has 20+ tabs. Your attention has the staying power of a fly in the rain. The work crescendos, crashes, drenches your being and then, suddenly, pulls back. Calmness floats in like fog in the bay. The calm is just the build up of

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-63268441729417069432007-08-18T14:12:00.000-05:002007-08-18T14:14:33.326-05:00

Tara and I climbed at Quincy Quarry this morning. It's a bit of a climbing playground, a great place to go for a few hours. The rocks, in places, are covered in graffiti which contrasts oddly with the serene lake-side scene that the quarry presents. We haven't been climbing in months and I'm feeling the forearm cramps starting to tense. pleasant.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-27149218151847876462007-08-13T10:03:00.000-05:002007-08-13T10:06:59.143-05:00

  I thought I'd pitch in my lot with the 'stachers and sculpt some cooool onto my face. Oh, be jealous ladies that you can't partake of such banditry. check out Erik P's 'stache as well.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-55892844641419000692007-07-27T08:48:00.001-05:002007-07-27T08:50:13.676-05:00

I'm finally 100% moved in to our Boston apartment. Just took another 22 hour drive from Bloomington!

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-28066933965203088192007-07-14T09:04:00.001-05:002007-07-14T09:04:50.463-05:00

for a wedding. all my friends are getting hitched lately.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-78529942353770251362007-07-05T15:09:00.000-05:002007-07-05T21:38:10.740-05:00

I feel like I've been waiting a decade for EA's massive game of evolutionary development. Is the this the biggest piece of vaporware every prophesized?

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-76398026513071166262007-07-02T17:41:00.000-05:002007-07-02T20:07:57.860-05:00

Hyperlinking best practices, pt. 1: Visual presentation of links - jotsheet: "A good place to start on this subject is an essay from the usability nazi himself, Jakob Nielsen. In probably his best Alertbox ever, Nielsen covers the usability of hyperlinking. Amazingly, I agree with just about everything he says here, except that I think it’s possible to be too ugly with hyperlinks, whereas science

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-22401918850779787372007-07-02T12:21:00.000-05:002007-07-02T12:24:58.956-05:00

I've never lived in a big city before. I've visited, but the expectation when you're visiting is that you'll be eating out and spending money. Now that I'm faced with an indeterminate stay, I've got to figure out how to LIVE in a city. Finding anything in Boston (supermarket, gas station, bank) is like trying to find a set of keys in a cluttered living room — after someone has released a hive

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-60294117013337645302007-06-18T19:03:00.000-05:002007-06-18T19:06:41.603-05:00

Today, I am a student. Tomorrow, I am a business owner. Well, I guess I've been a business owner for a while now. I did write a check that bought the stock that brought me into the fold. But tomorrow is a demarcation line. People will be allowed into BigTreeTop. We'll be judged. That's what makes it different. The judging.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-6325202282783031152007-06-11T14:01:00.000-05:002007-06-11T14:04:03.561-05:00

Life's purpose is a scent that reminds me of something I'm always about to remember but never do

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-91447462143012366872007-06-08T09:23:00.000-05:002007-06-08T09:28:24.855-05:00

From the meebo.com blog comments list: "i wd luv 2 b abl 2 change skin colours nd a hot pink skin wd b gr8" Tom Wolfe should write a novel in l33t speak. It'd be the renaissance of Avant Garde art! It could be the Clockwork Orange of the 21st Century. Or Ian M. Banks could do it, similar to the fantastic Feersum Endjinn. And if you're reading this, Tom Wolfe, I ask only that you put my name

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-66752710290716799152007-06-06T23:39:00.000-05:002007-06-07T00:06:12.531-05:00

I thought the 14 hour days grinding out work would end after I got the degree. Oh no no no. The only difference is, I'm getting paid. Well, that's only half true! I'm listening to the Bastard Fairies. Their irreverence and playful vulgarity is just what I need as the clock pushes 1am again. Which reminds me I've never documented my slight synesthasia. Since high school, I've experienced the

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-32878400016287982142007-06-02T11:16:00.000-05:002007-06-02T11:18:00.751-05:00

the best way to spend a Saturday morning. Seriously.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-69187626869246365682007-04-24T09:53:00.001-05:002007-04-24T09:53:38.082-05:00

I'm nearly out of this dark and lonely hole that is the conclusion of grad school. Just 2 more weeks!

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-12653669776157197832007-04-04T12:52:00.000-05:002007-04-04T13:00:29.970-05:00

A proposed amendment to ban same sex marriages in Indiana died on the State House committee room floor yesterday. The 5-5 vote split down party lines. The democrats, although supporting the spirit of the man-woman marriage language, disagreed with a vauge second clause that might have curtailed the rights of straight people. The outcome is good, although the House members are still intolerant

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-63471218140442654952007-03-22T11:04:00.000-05:002007-03-22T11:10:44.618-05:00

It is time to eliminate these words, 'former' and 'latter' from academic writing. From all writing, in fact. The cognitive load of trying to figure out the referents for these words is overwhelming. One must: Remember what they mean. Latter refers to the second phrase in a conjunction, the inner loop of the recursive sequence. Former refers to the first phrase in a conjunction, the outer

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-26268655612261459752007-03-01T22:34:00.000-05:002007-03-01T22:36:13.234-05:00

From: Jesse To: The world Stop making me sign up for your rink-a-dink service with another user name and password just so I can leave a comment on someone's post. I'm not going to participate if I need to give you my mother's maiden name and my zip code! Enough is enough with the obligatory accounts!

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-68805487834095284752007-02-28T23:20:00.000-05:002007-02-28T23:32:52.215-05:00

When was the last time someone wrote a poem about a walkman, email, or Beta Max? Apparently, this guy below was quite attached to the Chappe light telegraph. This poem was written in the late 19th century. What's with you, my old telegraph At the top of your old steeple As stem as an epitaph As still as a stout boulder Life has passed you by Scientists had warned you And when the pomp is gone

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-35618529133725272242007-02-21T15:50:00.001-05:002007-02-21T15:53:28.904-05:00

Lake Snow-be-gone.

Jesse Beachtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11267628.post-69855333650817971282007-02-19T23:19:00.000-05:002007-02-19T23:28:10.755-05:00

Justin, you raise an interesting point. Maybe we can take an example from a wiki, that has a page for fact and a page for talk on every subject. Except that a review is necessarily an opinion piece and no such thing as an objective review will ever be written. This may just be a phenomenon of the Randites, who take umbrage like most of us take air as a matter of survival. My favorite quote

Jesse Beach