Monsterbox Productions

I was sent a few days ago to proof an advertisement that was getting published on a phone book cover. I think the advertising company put the ad together but I was flabbergasted by the amount of design mistakes.

I threw together a new ad in less than 10 minutes and sent it off for replacement.

I’m surprised again and again how these companies make money with half-assed products.

I found something just as worthy as getting the iPhone.

I’m back to using a cellphone and if it was anything but Koodo I’d still be cellphone-less. Koodo Mobile has no System Access Fee and no 911 fee. Per-second billing, call forwarding, call waiting, and conference calling included. My phone was $70 but I don’t pay anything. I put it on my ‘koodo tab’ and every month they take 10% of your payment towards your tab. If you ever want to leave Koodo you just pay the remaining balance on your tab. The reception is Tbaytel.

Where to get it?

Future Shop and Wall-Mart are the only two places in Thunder Bay where you grab them. I first went to Future Shop but they ran out of phones quickly and only had a pink Motorola, so I trotted over to Wall-Mart and got it there. Now if only someone opened a store to sell and services these things…

Jill Taylor is a neuroanatomist who specializes in the postmortem investigation of the human brain. I was watching Moblogic interviewing her and also her speaking at TED and I thought the concepts she talked about people worrying about the past and the future was a dead ringer for the practices taught in a book by Eckhart Tolle called Practicing The Power of Now If your stressed, or trying to find more time in your work day than knowing how to think about the now is very useful in making your day productive.

I’ve published my new Trigonometry Lesson exclusively via Learnhub. Its been a couple of months since my last lesson. I took a different direction with the humor, but hopefully its as effective as previous lessons. Any feedback or ideas of future lessons are appreciated as always.

Awesome, I’m on the front page.

We already have another Math Video underway. Watch out for it!

I finally got a piece of rail to go along with my ruby. With the assistance of my friend Andrew who has the better camera lens we did some test shots. A Flickr set will shortly follow with a CC License that let you use the photos however you wish.

Am I taking this Ruby on Rails things too far?

What an interesting discovery Brian found.

The only or first place in Thunder Bay was my business address.

I’m a huge fan of Stratego and I came across a game called Snag the Flag made by Josh Goebel

If anyone is on-line and wants to play IM or e-mail me.

I bought a brand new Nikon D80 because I’m shooting an entire product line for an on-line shopping cart. I also bought a $70 light box from WalMart and the results were poor so I returned it and built my own light box. The results were dramastically¹ better.

It costed around the same amount of money but I didn’t go bargain hunting since I have a-lot work ahead of me. The best part is that the lights are florescent so no hot lights.

Materials:

• 1.5 meters of cheap white fabric
• three clip lights
• three 40 watts florescent light bulbs (2,600 lumens)
• big plastic rubbermaid container
• white bristle board

I’m no master of photography but I’m happy with the results.

¹ A word I unknowingly fumbled together one day: dramatic + drastic = dramastic

Last week I started adding my web apps into Fluid. Think of having a web-browser dedicated to a specific app.

Why put Web Apps into their own browser?

Show the difference between regular web-sites and web apps. It has its own icon on the desktop or the dockbar instead of before where users would

• forget the link
• loose the bookmark
• delete the email

Lets say you send you web app demo on cd to a client for review. Instead of them opening it in there browser that you can’t predict, they can open it in Prism or Fluid.

There are many more reason why to use it. But enough jabber, where do you get it from?

Grab it here!

Fluid	only for mac os x
Prism	windows, mac os x, linux

I purchased and read the ebook How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer and here are my after thoughts.

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I received my PeepCode t-shirt from the wonderful TopFunky Corporation.

You Know you’re a programmer when..

I thought it was funny

Ever pick up subtle hints that some kind of change is on its way?

I’ve heard about the version control system Git three times this week:

• RSpec Mailing List (moving source)
• Rails Envy (podcast)
• Peepcode (screen cast on how to use it)

It seems I have something new to learn on my list.

Git Vs Subversion