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by Mike Levin on February 29, 2012
I’m running out of time today to fix a very important Tiger function. Both external clients and internal audience are relying on it, and it’s something I’m currently accomplishing through screen-scraping, because it’s so much easier than the API. I just really have to focus. I lose focus so easily. Let’s use the 1, 2, [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 29, 2012
It’s interesting watching the search trends on my personal website. Even though HitTail, my creation, has been sold to a micro-preneur, my interest in using it has gone up. For sites with low traffic, there’s just no reason not to look at every single search hit to let your intuition glean from that list what [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 28, 2012
Note: if you’re just looking for how to activate HUD in latest 12.04 beta, just briefly tap the Alt key! To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in: update-manager -d This post is my daily work journal, starting out with just re-installing my Ubuntu 11.10 Linux system that crashed from [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 27, 2012
The hard drive of my Commodore C64x irrecoverably crashed today. There was an office move on Friday, and I wasn’t there to babysit my hardware, so you take your risk and pay the price. I had all my important data on Dropbox, and replicated across lie 4 other machines, so no lost data. And it [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 24, 2012
BloomReach is another attempt to can #SEO, this time with heavyweights and lots of VC money. Looks promising. http://t.co/nKQsncJj -> Florida and back by 10:30 PM! Hello, Baby! -> @TonyCreative It's tough to work a room through Skype. in reply to TonyCreative -> @Jewyorican I told them as early as possible / as late as [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 17, 2012
I got to work a few minutes early Wednesday morning, with Tuesday’s subway-writing fresh on my mind, and ready to publish. I’m so happy with how my website and personal brand identity development is coming along. I switched my logo to green a few days ago, and have been using it just about everywhere, including [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 17, 2012
Nevada approves self-driving car regulations. Good for Google. Watch for those red license plates! http://t.co/GnfPGYxg -> Looks like OS X and iOS take one step closer to meeting in the middle. iCloud and Twitter integration from the desktop http://t.co/JPI3wcze -> Vim anti-patterns (geek.nz) http://t.co/YMfoU93Z (via Instapaper) -> Here's the vid I was looking for on [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 15, 2012
Note: Much of this article is summarized in my one-page plan. I’m trying to do my next big thing—and hopefully, THE next big thing—computer literacy like never before. I’m not trying to build an empire here. It’s just that I find what I do to keep myself viable and cutting-edge in the professional workplace has [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 14, 2012
Gimp and Inkscape. I think that phrase will soon be comfortably rolling off my tongue like Photoshop and Illustrator did in years past. I’m just through with having to be a pirate because I switch hardware so often. Gimp is the Photoshop of the Free and Open Source Software realm (FOSS) and Inkscape is the [...]
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by Mike Levin on February 13, 2012
The trick is balancing all I have going on in my life, while still managing to be ambitious and productive at work. How can you be extremely ambitious while still walking out the door at 6:00 PM sharp, because you are also trying to be extremely involved? I LOVE my work. And I LOVE being [...]
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I am Mike Levin+, an Earned Media Optimizer, husband, daddy & Linux / Python hacker living on top of the hill on top of the island on top of the world. I put my stream-of-consciousness here in order to create greater commitment and consistency in pursuit of my goals.
