http://krisbrower.com for i in life: print i Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:30:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So today Michelle Obama came to visit Haverford, and I went to see her speak. After she recapped the course of the campaign she gave a nice speech where she addressed things like supposed elitism. According to an email from the college no one was allowed to bring any signs, but ... http://krisbrower.com/2008/04/15/188/ Netflix now has unlimited online viewing with one catch: you must use Internet Explorer. This leaves the mac and linux users searching for virtualization software. I am an Ubuntu user, and I already had vmware server installed with both a windows xp and vista. Both of these options 'worked', but ... http://krisbrower.com/2008/03/05/netflix-watch-now-in-ubuntu/ I frequently visit reddit.com and am a big fan of the site. While you can append .rss to nearly any page on reddit and get an rss feed, many of the feeds have the same order of the page itself and are not ordered by date. They do offer this ... http://krisbrower.com/2008/01/22/reddit-rss-feeds/ I just got a extra screen that makes my desktop this size, and there are not very many backgrounds available. Here are a few I created using the Hugin panorama generator and photos I took in australia. I would have a lot more high quality panoramas if I read this. [gallery=1] Here are some large panoramas as well. [gallery=4] http://krisbrower.com/2008/01/14/some-2960-by-1050-backgrounds/ So every once in awhile I have a pang to write a simple flash game. I ended up starting to build the exact same game I made back when Macromedia was its own company. That game was riddled with bugs and I wanted to make something stable. I assumed this ... http://krisbrower.com/2008/01/12/playing-around-with-actionscript-30/ So you've lost your cell phone again, and you didn't have the foresight to back up all of your phone numbers. What do you do? Well if you are on facebook you may know that people have created thousands of groups requesting numbers after such an event. Now there is ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/12/27/what-to-do-when-you-lose-your-cell-phone/ I have had a web site be on TV before, but never in the USA. My site was recently on MyFox Philly briefly in a segment about Cyber Monday and saving money online. Here is a link to the page that has the article and the video clip! Update: It was ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/11/27/amazon-filler-item-finder-on-myfox-philly/ So the site has been down since the 8th due to some sort of caching problem, but the problem has now been fixed by updating to the newest version of wordpress. I wanted to post about google's cool spreadsheet feature, but I am out of time. Here is an example spreadsheet ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/10/26/wowdown-for-a-month-and-didnt-even-notice/ One thing I needed when making my second facebook application is a simple way for users to invite your friends. I found a few examples, but none of them were really what I was looking for. This code uses the ajax multiple friend select box(<fb:multi-friend-input>) for inviting friends instead of ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/29/facebook-apps-php-invite-code/ So Henry Social Network User has written a brilliant article on his blog. The problem is that no one goes to his blog, and no one will read his article. Henry has a plan. He is a regular user of a few social networks and goes out and submits his ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/20/why-reddit-is-better-than-digg-for-normal-people-submitting-articles/ Golden Poison Frog "Its alkaloid poison, batrachotoxin, prevents nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction. This can lead to heart failure or fibrillation. It also lasts long after the frog has left the area; chickens and dogs have died from contact with a paper towel ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/17/things-that-could-kill-you-but-probably-wont/ Updated 11/23: 20 more lego sets posted and many more to come. So my family have about 80lbs of legos sitting around with all of the manuals so we decided to build them and sell them all on ebay. Check this post for updates. See this flickr page for pictures. Auctions: Lego 6769 ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/13/selling-old-legos-on-ebay/ I thought I would do a follow up post to 9 things Australia does better than the USA. These are a few things I noticed after spending a semester in Australia. 10. No legal Prostitution 9. We don't have a government sponsored internet filter yet 8. Food(Vegemite, meat pies, sausage rolls, .... yum?) 7. ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/11/10-things-the-usa-does-better-than-australia/ I just updated and fixed a few websites. The buy.com filler item finder was not working, but not it is. The problem was that the location of the datafee changed. This was all I had to do to fix the problem: Find export.buyservices.com/DataFeed and replace with affiliate.datafeed.buyservices.com I also updated the ebay ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/11/website-updates/ I was excited to find out that a story I submitted to the Amazon.co.uk Associate success story contest won an honorable(honourable) mention. You can read about it on their blog. My site is filleritem.com. I recieved a gift certificate for 50 pounds in my email(the contest said it was ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/10/amazoncouk-associates-honorable-mention/ The other day I was trying to buy a usb cable for my new lg env phone. After going to the verizon store and realizing they wanted to charge me $30 I got on ebay. A quick search yielded some good deals, but I wanted the best deal. The problem ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/08/02/get-the-best-price-on-ebay/ After spending six months in Australia these are some things I noticed that Australia does that I wish the USA did 9. All alcoholic beverages at the bottle shop(liquor store) are labeled with how many standard drinks it contains 8. You do not need to pay 40k a year to go to ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/07/10/9-things-australia-does-better-than-the-usa/ I had some downtime and I decided to head over to my local Apple Store in Ardmore, PA. They had about a dozen Iphones sitting out for anyone to play with. The Iphone did not disappoint, but I would not buy it for any more than $200. The interesting part ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/07/02/apple-iphone-store-models/ So my sister is back from school and looking to make some money. Luckily she knows how to make fabric belts and she has a brother(me) that knows how to make websites. So head over to DesignYourBelt.com to have my sister make you a unique custom fabric belt. http://krisbrower.com/2007/05/07/create-your-very-own-custom-fabric-belt/ Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page. Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 ... http://krisbrower.com/2007/02/07/how-many-backlinks-does-getting-dugg-get-you/