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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Playboy and Cuervo Football Viewing Party

Pretty girls, NFL football, free tequila, foosball, table tennis, and comfy bean bag chairs. Sounds like a dream, right?

There were also a bunch of Santas playing ping pong and dancing with the ladies.

Very classy setup at the Sutter Room in Pacific Heights.

I took home this pillow.

Best part of the night was handing out 40+ [...]

Doin the MUNI

All the kids are doin the MUNI. Yea, it’s a new dance that is sweeping the city hills of San Francisco.

As you can see, this bar isn’t really crowded, but when it was, we all scrunched up together and pretended we were on a bus. Tiffany is pulling the yellow cord that dings and says, [...]

ESPN’s new Bowl Pick ‘Em Facebook app

Cody Swann, from ESPN.com’s Community Development team, has always been one of the most focused Javascript interaction developers I have ever encountered, so when he sent me a link to his new Facebook app, I was eager to test it out.

You can pick all 32 matchups and even rank them in confidence. As with any [...]

Take the New York Times quiz every day.

If you want to keep up with the world’s news while you are browsing on Facebook, try the NY Times Quiz.

It’s challenging, and only takes a few minutes. They have five multiple-choice questions that are mostly international.
I have to admit that I have another tab open searching Google News. Most of the time, my guesses [...]

You’ve been bluebirded.

Twitter is a Ruby on Rails experiment, and at least once a day I am greeted with these messages:

There is even a website called istwitterdown.com that displays a white background with one word in black text. Ironically, Twitter is down now, and it says, “No”. It does link to an Amazon page where you can [...]

Allison Torres 2.0

I just spent a few hours updating Allison Torres’ website that I built about a year ago.

Since I have started working at CNET, I have gotten a lot better at interpreting XHTML/CSS and Wordpress’ PHP code.