March 2012
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My Top 5 albums of 2012
Here are my top 5 thus far for 2012 (unordered), plus a bonus entry. 1. Fort Lean - 7” single The best way to describe Fort Lean is to imagine a 90’s british pop vibe mixed with a classic american rock band from the late 70’s. Very spacey at times, with lots of highs and lows in front man’s Mitchell’s voice. Their new 7” single is inspiring and hopeful.  ...
Mar 8th
April 2011
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The time has come.
Today will be my last day at Zynga, as I’ll be leaving to embark on a new adventure. I’ll be starting a new company with my good friend Ben Bloch (Foodspotting) The last year and few months at Zynga have served as a tremendous learning experience. The gratification of writing, and architecting code that is served to millions of people everyday is tremendous and I will forever be grateful to...
Apr 29th
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Wild Flag - Future Crimes
Apr 23rd
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Yelle - Que Veux-Tu
Really catchy tune from these guys
Apr 6th
March 2011
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TV On The Radio - Will do
Really loving this new single. Kind of forgot about them since “Return to Cookie Mountain” 
Mar 24th
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Mother Mother - Oleander
Been listening to this one a lot lately.
Mar 17th
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Airwaves - Ride
Mar 11th
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Angus and Julia Stone - And The Boys
The lead up to the chorus on this song is pure gold
Mar 10th
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Modeselektor - The Dark Side of the Sun
A little older, but awesome nonetheless.
Mar 9th
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Baths - Aminals
The blogs has become a little stale, so I’m going to post one track a day. Let’s see how long I keep this up
Mar 8th
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January 2011
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Grubtastic
I’ve been living in San Francisco for about 9 months and discovered some great food spots in the city. I thought I’d share my list of favorites, in no particular order. Indian Dosa (Mission) Udapi Palace (Vegetarian, Mission) Mexican Taqueria El-Farolito (Best Burritos, Mission) Taqueria Cancun (Mission) Papalote (Mexican, mission) French Chez Maman (French Bistro, Potrero...
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November 2010
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March 2010
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Inkage?
Contemplating a tattoo. Something witty/geeky, but not sure what to get yet. I’ll be adding to this list but so far here are my choices in no particular order. Reply with any helpful suggestions :) 1. Hello World 2. Mushroom or turtle from super mario bros. 3. <img src=”tattoo.jpg” />
Mar 30th
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February 2010
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Stuff I want
Fireball Island (Purchasing on Ebay as I’m posting this) Forbidden Bridge This puzzle This table This converted barn This Glider Any of these madballs
Feb 6th
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New hotness
Hey guys, Just wanted to inform you of a new project I’ve been working on with @Davidedicillo and @orical. As you may or may not know, location based services are the hotness right now. Foursquare is one of them, and it’s gaining traction reminiscent of Twitter circa 2007. The idea is that you go around and check-in to different venues with an application that resides on your...
Feb 3rd
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January 2010
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Menomena - Wet & Rusting
Found this tune courtesy of Marie Lucas. Sort of feel like dipping myself in and out of water when I listen to this.
Jan 28th
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Best cheesy inspirational songs
Decided to bring in the weekend with some kick ass motivational tunes. I still can’t believe Ralph Macchio is 50!
Jan 9th
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Had this song in my head all day.
By far amongst the best lyrics in history.
Jan 7th
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Cassandra Messaging Tutorial - Part 1
I am currently working on developing the basic architectural components for a project me and my buddies are putting together. Since forming relationships via  communication is going to be our core business, the internal messaging system needs to be built on something solid that can scale out horizontally without the need for replication. Enough about that, the goal is to show how how to build out...
Jan 5th
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ListenReally re-thinking certain key things in my life...
Jan 4th
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ListenThis song is pure bliss, with an overtone...
Jan 1st
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December 2009
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Dec 26th
Spam
Me: I just got an email: "Your zoosk matches are waiting", we need to start spamming people! This stuff works.
Peter: Spam people... Check. You can't spell success without spam.
Me: gem install mail_spammer
Peter: Error : Dependency Check... "It seems you have morals, this gem requires you to run 'gem remove morals' before you continue."
Me: Weird.. I don't get that error.
Dec 19th
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November 2009
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Scaling on up [part 1]
For a recent ongoing project, I realized that I had to begin offloading a sub-system from mySQL to a key/value store for efficient retrieval. We all know that mySQL heavily depends on power to read as opposed to write. Therefore, when dealing with joins, and sometimes IN’s on non trivial queries, it can become fairly expensive. Not to mention my budget is finite, so I can’t (and...
Nov 5th
October 2009
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Oct 28th
The Bucket List
Here is a list of the 10 things I’d like to do in my lifetime, in no particular order. 1. Write a book I have no idea what I would write about, but it would definitely be gratifying. 2. Write a horror movie screen play As some of you may know, I have a passion for all things gore and horror, I have tons of sick ideas that could really be put to good use. 3. Be involved in a music...
Oct 13th
September 2009
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CakePHP Error Handling
So a couple of people asked me about the correct way of handling errors in CakePHP, and defining custom error pages for websites, so I decided to not explain this any more and just hand out a url to this post. Using standard error messages For common errors such as 404, Controller not found etc, you could easily use CakePHP’s built in cakeError function. So if you wanted to define a 404...
Sep 29th
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This always reminds me of sitting in a car,...
Sep 25th
Sep 25th
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Some Cardboard Lovin
I came across a great find today. Cardboard love, it’s by a buddy of mine Joey Hall who also happens to be the king of all fashion, just in case you need any glamor advice. So hit up Cardboard Love and let me know what you think.
Sep 21st
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Great fashion resource IMO →
Sep 18th
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Dope!  →
Sep 17th
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Sep 15th
ListenBack at work after a few disconnected days I found...
Sep 15th
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ListenLate afternoon delight. Mates of State -...
Sep 9th
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State of the now
Been fiddling with Python lately and I must say I am very impressed. It really is elegant, consistent, and powerful at the same time. This is especially true when running the language in one of the most popular and emerging frameworks, Django. If you know me, you know I pretty much swear by PHP and it’s frameworks, but there is something about python that could just lead me to sway. ...
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August 2009
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Aug 30th
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ListenSorry I’m back with some Dan Deacon, which...
Aug 25th
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Pikchur Shenanigans
So tonight I added the ability to post photos from Pikchur directly to posterous. A nifty little update that took about an hour. Now I am off to attempt some video editing. Farewell
Aug 25th
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Aug 21st
Aug 21st
Man;Hindered
I think I am in the midst of an existential crisis, I am questioning the purpose of everything; from what I do for a living, to my current morals, to the purpose of my life. I suppose this phenomena isn’t uncommon for this stage in my life, but nonetheless it is driving me to dig deeper. So now that I’ve acknowledged this, and confronted the inner me, I came up with some of the...
Aug 21st
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Aug 20th
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Aug 8th
July 2009
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Jul 31st