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5 Things I’ve Learned Freelancing in 2009

Daniel — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:37:16 +0000

It’s been just over a year since I quit my high-paying but miserable desk job and decided to “do my own thing” and now that 2009 is coming to a close I decided to recap some of the lessons I’ve learned. Looking back now I feel like I’ve made some progress towards sustainable self-employment, but [...]

I’m an Idiot

Daniel — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:03:38 +0000

I went to Toronto Taste today, an annual fundraising event put on by Second Harvest. My old roommate and good friend is one of the coordinators for Second Harvest and she plays a big part in this event. Last year was my first year attending, and I was really excited to go this year. I’m a [...]

Modnation Racers

Daniel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:50:30 +0000

Some old co-workers of mine are now working at a studio out in Vancouver called United Front Games doing some pretty exciting stuff. My friend Jon just linked me to a presentation that Will did at E3 today for a pretty sweet looking game they’re working on called Modnation Racers. Check it out:

How To Enable Half-Star Ratings in iTunes

Daniel — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:15:29 +0000

I have such a large collection of music that 5 stars doesn’t really give me the kind of granularity that I need to rate my music, so I started looking to see if there was a way to tweak that number. I came across this Lifehacker article which explained how to do it on a [...]

How To Make an iPhone Ringtone Using iTunes

Daniel — Wed, 06 May 2009 05:23:29 +0000

Want to make your own iPhone ringtones and avoid paying up for content that you already have? This is a quick and easy tutorial on how to do so using iTunes. I’m using Windows here, but the process is essentially the same if you’re on a Mac. Before you start, you’ll need to set iTunes [...]

Summer is Finally Coming

Daniel — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:20:37 +0000

I bought my Cervelo S1 back in February but because of the crappy weather I barely got to ride it until just a few weeks ago. The temperature has been rising steadily, and I’m pretty happy if it’s anything above 11-12 degrees. Some people might not think that this is anything to get excited about, [...]

Wordpress Community Woes

Daniel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:44:40 +0000

In light of the results of the recent Wordpress Has-Patch Marathon I thought I’d write a little bit about my experiences with the Wordpress community. I’ve been using WP for quite a while now – this blog is obviously powered by it – and I have to say, I’m a big fan. Like any software [...]

Top Secret Drum Corps

Daniel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:29:11 +0000

A friend linked me to this awesome video and I thought I’d share here. Even if you’re not into drumming, this is pretty awesome :)

Finally Updated my iPhone to 2.2.1

Daniel — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:00:22 +0000

I was laying in bed awake the other night and after not being able to sleep for a while I decided (don’t ask why) that I wanted to take another crack at updating my iPhone firmware. I have a first generation iPhone which I unlocked using Ziphone almost a year ago. This was (to my [...]

The Twouble With Twitter

Daniel — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:41:42 +0000

Twitter has obviously been around for a little while now but it’s just starting to get popular with the non-tech savvy masses, and so has been figuring prominently on my list of annoyances lately. While I think the core concept is great in several contexts (short, quick messages broadcast to an audience), I don’t see [...]