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My Pee Looks Like Martian Blood

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

A few weeks ago I noticed that my pee was no longer the glorious golden color of my past. It was in fact bluey-green (this is a real color) and it made me gasp. I have seen myself urinate for my entire life. Because of this, I have come to know my pee. I know when I’ve eaten a ton of garlic, oregano or drank a two-liter of Mountain Dew while watching late night television. So, it came as a surprise to me when I noticed this colorful change.

Was I sick? Did I have some strange new urine color changing virus? Was I about to turn into a 3D animated ogre?

So, I looked up on the World Wide InterWeb (the WWiW) and found out that this type of thing typically comes from food coloring in the foods we eat. Which food item could it be? I typically avoid foods with FDBlah-Blah #242 and Red Something #2. I went through everything I typically eat and found out that my Key Lime Yogurt contained yellow and blue stuff in it. Yellow and blue make green. I learned that from a storage baggie commercial.

By putting two and two together, I found that if I ingest said yogurt two days in a row, my pee starts to look like pea soup. To be fair, it’s not really that green, but it’s close. If I stop eating the yogurt, my pee returns to it’s normal sun-shiny state.

My question is, why does this stuff need colorant added? I mean, it’s in a green container and it’s sealed. I can’t see through it when purchasing, so my brain doesn’t need to get fooled into thinking it is really a key lime prior to purchasing it. Aside from the sugar added to help me tolerate the yogurt, the stuff is pretty good for me, aside from this pee-changing juice.

Is there a way that we all just say, “OK, we get it. This isn’t really made out of limes.” so that we can stop using this crap? But Keith, isn’t it safe? The FDA said it’s fine. My question is: who cares if it’s safe? It is unnecessary, so can we not just leave it out? Pee Lime Yogurt is not something I need anymore and if we level the playing field by getting rid of this stuff all together, then we wont be afraid to eat food that is white or creamy colored. Ghasp! Then my pee can return to it’s normal majesty.

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Strengths and Weaknesses

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

I have a close friend and colleague that has been asking me to do a strengths \ weaknesses analysis of my company for months. Since the economic climate is changing rapidly and starting to affect the lives of all the web developers that I know personally, I have been trying to determine what we do best and what we do horribly. After we find a strength and weakness we make a change in order to help us keep up with what the future may hold.

One thing that I think we do well is give advice based on our experience as well as manage projects well when we have no stake in the development or design. We created a web project management division at http://www.thewebadvocates.com/ and we essentially become the best friend of a web development project for any given amount of hours.

I feel that pre-planning for web projects is something that we can help small through large companies with. It’s an exciting thing to be at the birth of a web project. We enjoy it and hope that our experience can help even the smallest company succeed with their web launch.

This seems like an advertisement, I know. But I want it to be a nod to my friend that pushes our companies along through tough times (and easy times), with good ideas and a bright outlook. Thanks…

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But Mommy, I Want the Most Diggs Ever

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

I wonder what it would take to get the most diggs, ever.

For those who don’t know, www.digg.com is a social news sharing site, that allows people to “digg” a story. The more diggs, the higher the story ranks, thereby increasing the visibility of it to the world. Well, the world of digg users anyway.

For some, getting digg numbers is like scaling up Mount Everest. The higher they get, the happier they are. For others, they like the interactivity of social sites or for those that write content, the idea of people reading their blog posts or news articles is just plain nice.

So, what would it take to be the most digged (dugg? dugged?) article on digg? Would it be a well-written piece on global warming? Would it be a sensational tabloid-style picture about the latest celebrity caught doing something insane? Would it be an account of something great that happened?

I am really curious to know what the collective unconscious of digg users is. It might also be fun to do a few tests to see what happens with a variety of digg posts. How would people be swayed to digg one story vs. another? How might different tools allow the digg count to grow even more?

For the sake of argument, maybe this article should get the most diggs ever. Ya know, just as a test :)

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