Air Brokers International, Inc.
Air travel agency based here in SF. Specialize in RTW tickets and multi-stop itineraries.
Air Brokers International, Inc.
Air travel agency based here in SF. Specialize in RTW tickets and multi-stop itineraries.
Awesome blog with “unconventional strategies for life, work and travel”
Makers of fine leather knife sheaths and a great source of survivalist technique info, videos, etc.
“View and Create User Flows, Viral Loops, and More.”
A comparison matrix between a bunch of the more popular URL shortening services.
“Screenjelly records your screen activity with your voice so you can spread it via Twitter or email.”
Checked in at Nook .
This is someone else’s EveryTrail log of what seems to be the same hike we did at Half Dome.
A tool that takes PSDs and converts them directly into WordPress themes. PC only.











View looking directly down from the top of Half Dome.
Posted on Flickr 7:59 am, August 1, 2009

















Photo by Courtney Sullivan
Yep, that’s what time (in the morning) we hit the trail-head.
Posted on Flickr 4:50 pm, July 31, 2009





“his WordPress hooks database automatically scans each WP build for apply_filters() and do_action() to figure out exactly which hooks are available in each version and where the hooks occur.”
How To Create a WordPress Theme: The Ultimate WordPress Theme Tutorial
Detailed and pretty decent tutorial on how to build a WordPress theme from scratch.
Checked in at Hahn’s Hibachi .
“GPS Visualizer is a free, easy-to-use online utility that creates maps and profiles from GPS data (tracks and waypoints, including GPX files), street addresses, or simple coordinates. Use it to see where you’ve been, plan where you’re going, or visualize geographic data (business locations, scientific observations, events, customers, real estate, geotagged photos, etc.).”
Big intro document on how to design an LDAP schema.
PHP5 parsing of hCards from HTML documents
Checked in at Automattic .
Checked in at Automattic .
microformatsDevCamp Yo!
Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin
WP plugin that allows you to try loading a Twitter avatar and/or a Gravatar for commenters on your blog.
Awesome bundle for TextMate that covers all kinds of shortcuts to speed up WordPress development.
Incoming! – A Twitter search client for your Mac
“Incoming! is a Twitter search client designed for power users and social media experts. It lets you cut through the noise and find the tweets that matter to you most — so you can follow your favorite topics or keep track of what users are saying about your company’s products.”
Awesome list of “hidden” features in PHP on StackOverflow. Really good collection of tips, pointers etc.
“In this post I hope to show how to configure nginx as a reverse proxy to a back-end CentOS 5 server running Apache.”
I might end up getting one of these. Sick of crappy reception in my apartment…
Massive collection of screenshots from URL shortening services, collected by Chris Messina
“Quality comment designs for your WordPress site”, $7 a pop
Checked in at Peet’s Coffee & Tea .
Checked in at Peet’s Coffee & Tea .
Checked in at The Bell Tower .
Data visualization system for viewing business intelligence on an iPhone. Packages up your information as a fully-interactive iPhone app and delivers it to your device. Pretty slick.
SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
“SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites – accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links – and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.”
Javascript packer/minify script.
hKit microformats parser for PHP5
“hKit is a simple toolkit for extracting common microformats from a page. The page can be presented as a string or a URL, and the result is handed back as a standard PHP array structure. hKit uses SimpleXML for parsing, and therefore requires PHP5.”
Growl notifications sent to your iPhone.
bashreduce: A Bare-Bones MapReduce
Pretty slick implementation of MapReduce using a bash script, allowing you to pipe data in/out, redirect etc, using command-line tools.

Posted on Flickr 8:26 am, July 1, 2009 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617 = { positions : { 159 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘37.791333’, ‘-122.4175’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions ) { gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.bounds.extend( gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions ) { gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.map, position : gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.map.setCenter( gmap_m13e9534908adf5c9f551ac8e8997d617.positions[159] ); });
a Jabber/XMPP interface to Growl. Awesome.
How to use curl_multi() without blocking
Good post on more efficient use of curl_multi() under PHP. Much better use of resources than most examples around the place.
“Once activated, the plugin adds a “Console” page to the administrator’s “Tools” menu. This page includes a JavaScript-based interactive shell which loads the WordPress environment. It allows execution of arbitrary PHP code as well as anything defined by WordPress or activated plugins. This is awesome.”
RPX: Instant OpenID and Data Portability
“RPX handles the UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data for your website.” Includes OpenID, Twitter, FBC, Google, etc etc etc

Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 11:55 am, June 21, 2009

Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:45 am, June 21, 2009

Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:45 am, June 21, 2009

Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:41 am, June 21, 2009

Oh noes, so cute my head is going to ‘splode!
Posted on Flickr 10:35 am, June 21, 2009

Ben gave us a flyover on his way back to Stockton — awesome!
Posted on Flickr 10:05 am, June 21, 2009

Ben gave us a flyover on his way back to Stockton — awesome!
Posted on Flickr 10:05 am, June 21, 2009

What? He paid his fare, he has as much right as you to be here…
Posted on Flickr 9:00 am, June 21, 2009



San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:13 am, June 20, 2009

San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:08 am, June 20, 2009


San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:59 am, June 20, 2009

San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:53 am, June 20, 2009 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ var gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c = { positions : { 554 : new google.maps.LatLng( ‘37.5115’, ‘-122.2505’ ) }, bounds : new google.maps.LatLngBounds(), // empty for now, we’ll dynamically extend it later map : new google.maps.Map( document.getElementById( ‘gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c’ ), { mapTypeId: google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP, center: new google.maps.LatLng( 0, 0 ), zoom: 16 // Seems to be a good zoom for a single point } ), markers : {}, }; // end of gmap // Extend the bounds of interest based on our positions for ( var m in gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions ) { gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.bounds.extend( gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[m] ); } // Render markers for ( var m in gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions ) { gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.markers[m] = new google.maps.Marker( { clickable: true, map : gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.map, position : gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[m] } ); } // Redraw map to fit our new marker-based bounds gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.map.setCenter( gmap_m7e41fda19e204beaa52d791914ecd16c.positions[554] ); });

San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:14 am, June 20, 2009

San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:12 am, June 20, 2009

San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 8:12 am, June 20, 2009




San Carlos Airport, CA
Posted on Flickr 7:41 am, June 20, 2009

Robin’s Cousin Ben, the pilot of the Chinook in all of the flying pics in this set.
Posted on Flickr 7:33 am, June 20, 2009



