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Heat Wave

Friday, August 31st, 2007

I’m getting caught up on my work after my hard drive crash. Now I have the intense heat in the valley to deal with. I think it’s 110 today. I need to move back to Venice Beach!

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Always Backup Your Hard Drive!!!

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Yeah, I didn’t do a backup recently enough. My MacBook Pro harddrive died a week ago Saturday, and I lost a lot of creative stuff. Most of my work stuff was either easily reproducible or backed up via email (I use Google Apps for Your Domain for most work related emails, and it’s all saved [...]

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Sexual predators online – the real story

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Sexual predators online – the real story: “Cory Doctorow: The next time someone starts telling you how important it is to ‘protect kids from online predators,’ send them to this record of the DC Internet Caucus panel on kids and predation, wherein quantitative social scientists describe the real situation with predators and kids. Kids do [...]

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Fans fit the battle of 'Jericho,' and CBS came tumbling down – MSNBC: “ KOMO Fans fit the battle of Jericho, and CBS came tumbling downMSNBC’- 1 hour agoIts official: After being pressured by fans, who sent 50000 pounds of peanuts to its New York office, CBS has brought back ‘Jericho,’ the America-after-the-bombs drama that [...]

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Jane Siberry’s “you decide what feels right” pricing: “ Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog describes how some small-scale recording artists are succeeding on the web. One interesting bit mentions the ‘pay what you can policy’ used by Jane Siberry. The result: People wind up paying more than they would at iTunes. Like many, I’m [...]

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Actor Website

Saturday, May 12th, 2007

I recently did a website for my friend Jack Maxwell. You can watch him this Tuesday on House at 9 PM EST/PST! He’s had a good run this season, and he’s appeared on Ugly Betty, Beyond the Break, and Lost (he was the guy who punched Desmond a couple of episodes ago). Great job, Jack!

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iPhone anticipation continues to shake up cell market: “ Filed under: iPhone We’ve already heard from some of the usual suspects on the ‘iPhone drag effect’ that may be impacting sales and phone upgrades in advance of the June arrival of the iPhone; customers who would ordinarily be snapping up new smartphones and renewing two-year [...]

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Patience is a Virtue

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

I’ve been looking for a new place to live. I can’t take Anaheim any more. I feel like I’m living my life on the 5 freeway. Things are hopping for me now in about every area of my life, and most of my life is in L.A. Apartment hunting is about my least favorite thing [...]

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MIA – Alan Hartung

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Okay, I know I’ve been absent from the blog… absent from my house church… absent from a lot of other things. I’ve been crazy busy with trying to find a new place to live, doing a ton of web development work, shooting a short film and a tv pilot (not the really good kind, but [...]

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Lent Approaching

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

What are you doing?

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