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chipr

  1. I'm selling a solid wood queen platform bed. austin.craigslist.org/fuo/3049475905…
  2. Battleground is great TV and a genius content move for Hulu. gigaom.com/video/hulu-bat…
  3. @MikeSaulters @jettek It took a while, but I think they finally got a footing. Even the Mom character got some depth 2/3 way thru.
  4. The bad news: today's disk archiving exercise postponed due to drive failure. Good news: the WD Green 1TB drive still has 1mo on warranty.
  5. I <3 Linux RAID
  6. Introducing dillo, a ruby library to access Austin #opengov data. github.com/phillipsj/dillo #atxgov #cfaatx
  7. @impactnews_cta Disappointed you didn't share the "find my polling place" web app link. nearby.webatx.us
  8. Austin city election is today. Find your voting place with this mobile app: nearby.webatx.us #atxgov
  9. Austin municipal election tomorrow. Free mobile app to find your voting place: nearby.webatx.us #atxgov #cfaatx (please rt)
  10. Voting locations for Saturday, in a handy geocoded spreadsheet. (Why doesn't #TravisCounty Clerk do this?) #atxgov docs.google.com/spreadsheet/cc…
  11. Who is the genius at Google who decided that KML files with no location information is useful?
  12. Liars!! I followed the whole bunch of you, and not a single one of you really is a ninja.
  13. A spammer goes to jail jl.ly/Email/mcdaid.h… via @spamvikktim
  14. I just backed CotFG: New Media Art and Sound Summit 2012 on @Kickstarter kck.st/K2K3Ob
  15. @EccentricFlower I think the word you are looking for is "troll".
  16. Texting in movies? Ok by me. slackerwood.com/node/2905
  17. I hope I finish the early voting app I'm working on before early voting starts ... which was yesterday.
  18. @JeanCaffeine hulu.com/30-rock
  19. @technoronin It was actually not a tax issue. I was trying to get a GIS layer file with Travis County voting precincts. ++helpful
  20. Travis Co may not have a data portal, but Clerk and Tax Assessor Collector offices have been very responsive to electronic info requests.