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A lot of my posts recently have just been posts about interesting things I have read on other people’s websites. This is another one of those posts. I’ve been catching up on 43Folders.com recently and quite captured by Merlin Mann. Today I say his video on Creativity Patterns. This video changed my entire personal perspective, about myself and about my abilities at least for the day. He’s a great speaker and the concept is motivating. Check it out if you haven’t, and consider reading/watching more of Merlin if you have the time. ...

Found this video through Daring Fireball. It’s a great explanation of what is going on in the financial world.

This is the new cheerleading movie about two football players who give up football camp for cheerleading camp to try and hook up with cheerleaders. Bottom line, not a great movie, wasn’t expecting much out of it, so wasn’t too disappointed. What frustrates me is that the joke content is very young, but the visual content is somewhat sexually inappropriate. That didn’t make for a great combination for me. That being said, there were a few funny lines and a ton of throwbacks to my childhood cheerleading experiences. The vote 3 on the Tubbs scale. ...

Github is a web site for common git repositories. It has been around for a while, and I have been a member since before they became public. Basically you can create your git repos on the site, add code and whatnot, branch from other repos and then sync up. I use it mostly as a backup for my current project, which is a private repository. Anyway, I wake up this morning to see that there is a new little item on the Github dashboard, “Gists”. I click on the link and get brought to a page that looks like Pastie. I’ve always been confused about how long the code stays around at Pastie. I would have like to post some links to Pastie stuff in the blog, but honestly, I haven’t trusted it to be around. So, maybe Gists existed on a more permanent basis. I started hunting around Github for some documentation on Gists, with no luck. ...

I was told that my first logo design lacked a certain “coolness”. This is take two: For those of you who don’t get it: char is the C keyword for a one byte of data. Think of it as a standard character in the English. Basically, it is one definition of the smallest snippet of data.