Today, Farrin Anne ‘Crane’ Gustafson, the manager of the social media strategy for the Clayton Trotter (my father) congressional campaign became the first person in history to use Facebook Places to check-in to a new kind of application: a social election game. She earned the “At the Voting” badge by checking-in using Facebook Places as she […]
Category: Hacking
How to add a new place to Facebook places
Soon, I will be making an announcement about some work that I have been doing with the Facebook places API. For now, I want to give a little tutorial on how to create a new place, in Facebook places, using your iphone Facebook app. First, you have to download the facebook application from iTunes, or […]
You might be a cyborg….
People often do not get why I am so convinced that only GPL Software should be used in Medicine. I can understand why. Without understanding the nature of Healthcare, people assume that I am being religious about the issue. This is the furthest thing from the truth. It has been a while since I have […]
gvim over ssh
I use vi for development. I keenly remember one of Dr. Eggen‘s early lectures to us. “There are other editors out there, but if you learn to use vi, you will have a powerful editor on every unix server you ever use…” (or something like) It took me the about halfway through the compsci intro […]