Tweet It just drives me nuts that I can’t get good data access to my credit cards. I just want an easy download of ALL my credit card transactions. You’d think you could but Chase now B of A. You just can’t easily. Ok…I was able to download an easy spreadsheet for last year at [...]
Tweet I was setting up a demonstration event web site to show how events can become more social. I setup new accounts for the event at Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Facebook has their Fanbox tool that easily allows you to build a widget or badge to showcase your Facebook page on your web site. Twitter [...]
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Tweet Just came across a cool web application called Bundle that lets you see how people like you save and spend their money? You can use Bundle to compare yourself by age, location, income and household status. I love the tools out there that help us understand our money and spending.
Tweet Keep hearing discussion discussion on my social networks about whether or not global warming or global climate change is real. Does it matter? Isn’t the right question: Are humans negatively impacting our environment and are there things we could do differently?
Tweet Over the next few weeks Google is rolling out the ability to upload all file types to the cloud through Google Docs, giving you one place where you can upload and access your key files online. Google Docs now supports files up to 250 MB in size, which is larger than the attachment limit [...]
Tweet We launched registration for Google I/O this morning. The third annual developer conference will be at Moscone West in San Francisco on May 19-20, 2010 You can register for Google I/O here. Checkout the schedule, sessions, and more at: http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/ The event was a blast last year with the Android Phone giveaway and the [...]
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Tweet I love data. When I find great sources of data I have to record it. Here is RAW and API data from the Federal Government. OpenSecrets Open Data It has: Campaign Finance – PAC and individual contributions to, and expenditures by, Candidates, PACs and Party Committees Lobbying – Clients, registrants (generally lobbying firms), lobbyists [...]
Tweet I found a much more colorful visual of where government spending goes. It is in the UK, but still very cool. They did a much better job visually displaying the data then I did on my Oregon or California State Budgets. Where Does My Money Go? Pretty cool visualizations of Government spending. I predict [...]
Tweet Google released the SDK for Google Android 2.1 today. I need to play with the new release.
Tweet I pulled this from the Google Research Blog. I was going to write my own, but they said it all. I just modified a little: Database systems are notorious for being hard to use. It is even more difficult to integrate data from multiple sources and collaborate on large data sets with people outside [...]
Tweet Someone needs to create an open source version of data.gov. Every city, county and state municipalities need a copy. There needs to be a well written, secure and standards based open source version available. It would be setup identical with: RAW Data Catalog with XML, CSV, KML, etc data files Tool Catalog or Marketplace [...]
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Tweet Many projects I do in my spare time are purely for the exercise and learning experience. I have been developing a tool I am calling social budgets. I am very political, but I get frustrated when I don’t fully understand what is going on at a state and federal level. I like to have [...]
Tweet I was just playing around with a new visio diagram to help me keep evolving a Ubiquitous Oriented Architecture. (Click to Enlarge)
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Tweet I was looking for an open source image gallery solution for a friend the other night. Tonight after reading The Coming Tornado: Cloud in the Enterprise. I got into researching a couple of other areas of open source or cloud tools that I can add to my IT cloud stack. I came across Panda, [...]
Tweet I wanted to reintroduce everyone to Google Charts. If you haven’t heard about it, it is a quick and easy way to create chart from data sources. It is so easy to use. I think it is a tool that more people need to hear about and understand how they can easily use to [...]
Tweet I came across a blog post in the Huffington Post called, “Schwarzenegger Proposes Budget For ‘Tough Times‘”. So I went and checked out the California Proposed Budget for 2010 and 2011. I am seeing a lot of PDF documents available regarding the budget, but no data feeds or spreadsheets. I went ahead and plugged [...]
Tweet I was doing my taxes the other day. I thought to myself. Where does all my tax money go. For quite a while I thought how nice it would be to be able to tell the government how to spend my money. I would like a multiple choice form showing how I want it [...]
Tweet I just realized a funny thing. I use 3 different browsers on a daily basis now. I use Firefox for my personal sites and web applications. I use Chrome for my work sites and web applications. I use IE 8 for watching movies, TV and Media. I generally have work and personal in separate [...]
Tweet I was looking for some nice CSS styling for text and memo boxes tonight. I stumbled across CSS Portal. They have some great information to improve your CSS skils. I found some greate CSS text boxes, CSS memo boxes, and CSS buttons. There is a lot more. Recommend checking it out. Great quick CSS [...]
Tweet I am trying to find to find an appropriate solution for a friend that will allow him to manage a photo collection. Rather than build something from scratch I thought I’d take a look to see whats out there. I came across Plogger, a great open-source web photo gallery. It is an excellent example [...]