http://blog.artwells.com what I've found Mon, 25 May 2009 19:50:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My best friend died last week. I'm still unclear on the details of his death. When I visited, it seemed he wasn't very clear about it himself. He was quite lucid on several occasions and I got some datum points in short stories: One year, one month, one ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/05/brian-walker/ I wrote a little plugin for Six Apart to allow their service to be used by wordpress installs. It was announce at the Mid-Atlantic Wordcamp 2009 today and got to be a big deal right away. It was a great opportunity to contribute to a couple great organizations. I ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/05/six-apart-typepad-wordpress/ My son and I worked on the willow hut yesterday. Today I worked on some inherited spaghetti code. The winter die-off was woven in with new growth. It was difficult to find which part should be snapped off, which brought to the light, which woven back to hold the thing ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/04/pruning-and-weaving/ Flora put this above the door down to the basement, where my office is. This pretty much says it all. We broke even in March financially, and in its first week, April looks good. I've got a part-time job with customerforce along with a few new gigs, and some huge ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/04/a-measure-of-success/ I recently had a mention in BusinessWeek. Though it certainly wasn't a This guy is awesome! You should hire him!, it did send quite a bit of traffic to my site. This made me aware that my website and resume still suck, even though I've been leaning on both rather heavily. ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/03/new-web-page-and-resume/ Lately I've been having strong memories, almost re-experiences, of extremely mundane things. I'll be walking upstairs from the basement and I will be instantly in a cold morning on a second-story deck of an apartment. I'm in a t-shirt and regretting that. I'm smoking the first cigarette from a ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/03/echos-of-ordinary/ The day before yesterday I finally spent some time redoing nshrine's twitter bot. Just like before, all you need is to start a tweet with "@nshrine" and nshrine will light a candle for you and send you back a link to it. You can let other twitter users know ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/02/new-twitter-bot-for-nshrine/ I just launched my latest facebook application. Working with goopymart, I built a vibing/messaging application highlighting the great goopiness of goopy's artwork. Three characters are available at first, but more are available the more you use it. Give it a whirl! vibe-o-mat For you technical types, this was a ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/02/hyping-the-latest/ I made yet another commitment today to being hopeful. I'm finding less and less of my failures have to do with my circumstances and more and more have to do with me. I'm finally becoming convinced from this that much of my successes are not from good fortune ... http://blog.artwells.com/2009/01/shovel-ready/ After some somewhat urgent dentistry, I walked through a growing storm. Even though I really can't take pictures when it gets this dark, I ended up taking a lot of pictures. None of them turned out. Still, a large number of bad photos is appropriate to now. ... http://blog.artwells.com/2008/12/settling-the-horizon/