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Yes friends, I am right at that age where EVERYONE I know is getting married. Which gives me more excuses to paint. Here is another collab I did with Lauren for our good friends Karis and Dave. They even hung it in their office!

I was lucky enough to get some time with the talented Lauren Gray about a month ago, when she was in town for the wedding of our two close friends, John and Maria Young. We decided to put together a little (Well, little is a loose term. This sucker was around six feet long.) collab painting together for their present. I hope we did them justice. Congrats you two!

Just watched Brian W. Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman’s Google I/O session, and I was very impressed. This talk is geared towards engineers/developers who have made the transition to management, be it through a promotion, or “accidentally.” This really hit home for me, as I made this exact transition at AE a while back. There are definitely some awesome concepts in here, definitely worth an hour of your time.

In case you haven’t seen the show, this sums it up pretty well. Might even save you a weeks worth of life destructing DVDs.

I particularly like the point at the end of this actually. It really shows that everything in the middle doesn’t matter for the overarching point of the story, however it does matter in the entertaining manner it was presented.

Took the State of Web Development Survey a few months ago, and the results came back this week. Definitely some interesting stuff, especially the amount of people using JQuery. You can download all the responses in CSV format here.

I recently ran into an issue where a specific windows service **cough** oracle **cough** was really bogging down my machine. Since this particular service was not one I used on a daily basis, I set the service to start manually, rather than automatic at start up. Problem solved, however I now needed a quick way to get these services going again. Enter a batch file, with the following:

ECHO #### Starting Services... ####
ECHO ============================================================
net start <service name>
net start <service name>
net start <service name>

You can add as many services as you want, and also stop them with the net stop command. Just save that as a .bat file, and away you go.

So first off, I cannot take credit for this tasty morsel of internet amazing. My friend Jake showed me this, and I felt the need to share it with all.

Secondly, if you haven’t check out the StormTroopers365.com yet, take your nerfherder ass over there immediately. Basically, this guy took a picture of storm trooper action figures doing hilarious stuff every day for a year.

Well, once, I stumbled upon this, I told Jake I had to have all of the pictures, in their full resolution glory, on my desktop immediately. In the usual fashion, Jake had already found some Firefox addons to do the trick.

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Throughout the land
Learn to use content filters
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This is pretty awesome. Google recently made the apps script available to the public, and people have already been doing some sweet things. For one, you can now play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in Spreadsheets, which I’m sure is something you’ve always yearned to do.

To do it, just go to Insert – Script…

Under there, is a list of current scripts available that users have added to the scripts gallery. There are some pretty cool ones, but KB easily takes the cake, at least at the current time. Install the KB script, and head back to your spreadsheet. Here is an example formula to get you started:

=kb("Miley Cyrus", "Arnold Schwarzenegger")

And here is the result: