I made a Muxtape.

http://austingriffith.muxtape.com/

Is that even legal?

It's running on Amazon's S3... I've been working with EC2 and S3 and they could be a really cool way to implement HR.

I wanted to play with iMovie today so I made an intro to Horse Racing and Danica did the voice.

I'm building a system for users to complain about my application.

That's weird!

For Easter, Danica and I went out to Camarillo to visit Sib and Kim and then on to Ojai to see the Day crew, and then to L.A. to get our brain storm on with Tanner.

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Keeping a watchful eye on the territory and providing me with daily entertainment/distraction.

at home this weekend.

Gives us an excuse to have a screw driver.

My Master's Work is in the Computers In Education Journal (VOL. XVIII NO. 1 JAN-MAR 2008).


How neat is that?

I've been hunkered down for the past month splitting all of my free time between programming Horse Racing and playing Rise of Nations with Ranica.

It seems like the weekends are just flying by one after the other and I'm packing on the weight. I hope it's just a bit of hibernation and I will be up and at them in the spring!

I sent Horse Racing over to the Facebook Product Directory and I couldn't be happier with the results. Since I launched it, there has been a steady average of about 15 people playing at any given time.

These numbers totally suck in terms of Facebook application users, but I doubt the app could handle the sort of load that most of the successful ones boast.

In my mind, it is a success if I can keep a good percentage of the users engaged.

Danica's family invited me to chill with them in Sedona, Arizona for New Years. This is a picture I just took off of the deck as the sun was setting.

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My goal for the weekend was to create a race builder for horse racing in hopes to make it a little more viral.

After 16 hours of straight programming, I'm pretty happy with the progress... and I'm dead tired!

I've been in contact with Olivier Mevel, the CEO of Violet, and he sent me over some of the new Nabaztags to play with. Now Boozer won't be so lonely.Eventually, I think he is going to take the Nabaztag Facebook application off my hands.

UPDATE:
Guvna is up and running.

Watched them sweep the National League Division Series in the 4th game. Amazing experience! I hope we can get tickets to the World Series.

I always have more fun than I thought I was going to when we go paint balling.

...in SLC with Chris and Tanner on a new business venture.

go pokes!

too bad I was the big loser

I've been working on a UW Facebook app (along with 7 other apps for the Mountain West Conference).

If you are a Wyoming Cowboys fan, be sure to add the application.

Last night, there was an eclipse around 4:30 am here.

I wasn't awake to see it, but I was up the night before and shot this picture and this one too.

I'm building a large glass ant farm (pictures coming soon). But first, I needed to capture a small amount of ants and make sure I can keep them alive (and also to test their tunneling skills in the fine white sand).

I mixed two different colonies forgetting that they will wage war on each other. They did for a bit, but then they 'worked things out' as Danica put it.

Yesterday, I found a really cool looking moth outside my office so I put him on my desk.

This morning I found him up in the corner of my office... laying eggs?

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UPDATE: they hatched

What a busy weekend... shooting guns, a movie, drinking, golf, 2 baseball games, and some more drinking.

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with Dennis and Skunk

For that last few days we've been up in Jackson. Danica had a family reunion estrogen brawl while I attended my long time friends Sib and Kim's wedding. It was great to meet the rest of Skunk's family and see the most beautiful part of Wyoming.


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This little guy was jumping out in the parking lot at work.

My little set up in my garage.

Dennis took the pictures, Diana called some people to come get it and care for it.

He looked pretty haggard

We've been spending a lot of time indoors, playing old school computer games.

It's nice to just hang out on the deck and watch the lightning over the mountains.

My buddy Logan sent me this article ranking Cookbook in the top 10 Facebook Utilities.

I'm a little sad right now.

One of my Facebook applications has been copied by a company wanting to do something of the same nature. I'm happy to have competition, Recipe Binder and I have been doing it this whole time, but we have had two very different applications.

You be the judge, check out the comparison screens.

Well at least Cookbook was out a couple weeks ago and has more users:

Cookbook 5,219 users
Recipe Binder 3,734 users
iCook 384 users

...laid some eggs in a pile of rocks.

So I took a couple pictures.

in Wyoming at the Day/Holbrook cabins

Life goes on... even with sore guts.

So last night around 1:20 AM I went in for an emergency surgery... woo hoo!

Thanks to all my friends, family, and co-workers for the good wishes! I'll be up and at 'em soon.

Lucky for me, I have my computer and the internet.

Oh man that was a sweet trip.

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Here are the shows I saw:
The Police
Tool
The White Stripes
The Flaming Lips
Franz Ferdinand
The Decemberists
The Roots
Michael Franti and Spearhead
STS9
The Hold Steady
Cold War Kids
Clutch
Flight of the Conchords
Demetri Martin

Skunky helped me bottle this batch of Cabernet Sauvignon this morning.
Why is everything green with a white Georgia font these days?!?

... on a perfect day in Colorado City ... until the daily thunder-boomers came a rollin' in.

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A good crowd showed up for Mark Z's keynote (video) at the facebook f8 launch. It's very humbling to be in a room with that many great minds.

I only got some of the basics working, but I can't wait to get home and start really building some stuff! Maybe a way to share recipes ... facebook cookbook? I'm in to cooking these days. Or maybe a comic strip creator where people can collaborate to make and share their own comic strips.

My cellphone has finally proven its worth to me. Not only did I use it to edit all the photos and make this post, but I also needed it to navigate my way from San Francisco to to my cousin's house in Oakland.

One of these days I want to stop on highway 287 and go tromping around, but for now, we will just have to shoot out the window. Danica took a quick picture on the way home from Laramie.

... I work for fits at two picnic tables.

That's awesome.

I also need to remind myself that even though the city is fun, living out in rural Colorado has its benefits.

Last night we just sat out on my deck and enjoyed the mountain air with a delicious gin and tonic. With no sirens and no smog, we could enjoy nature and the stupid, loud crickets at their finest.

All my life I have lived in towns with a population of less than 2000 people except for the five years I was in college.

And all my life I have loved coming to the city, surrounded by buildings and people, to have a good time and experience new things.

My favorite part of the drive to Denver is coming over the pass and seeing the skyline for the first time.

This weekend, Kellen came up from New Mexico and threw down some beers.

...with my favorite toy!

Plus, Dennis took us shootin'

... and some delicious wine with the fam

...from a weekend of ridiculism in Laramie Wyoming.

I got to take a break from the real world and head back to college for a few days.

It was really, really fun.

pbwiki motivates me to work on typecinch but there's no way typecinch could roll with those big dogs

No posts for a week, I'm a slacker. I've spent any and all free time away from work developing another web application to interface with the Facebook API.

UPDATE: It is now over 2000 lines of code plus all the TypeCinch stuff.

Check out the beta version:
pumpd beta and as always, feedback helps

Kellen recently discovered TypeCinch. It's really cool to see people putting it to use.

eeesh what a nerd, I'll have to go out and redeem myself tomorrow for st. patty's day

After seeing 300 in IMAX, I got excited to play with AIBattle and created a very outnumbered match between my smartest and dumbest AIBattle algorithms.
(you will have to have a fast computer to run the 200+ threads in realtime)

It was neat to read the basics of aibattle ... old school

It's fun to see what happens when two peaceful brains are left alone for an hour. ...or one peaceful brain and one evil brain

A new buddy of mine, Carl Moeller recently added me to the narcissistic bloggers club and I'm flattered to be in a list with such successful bloggers, but that's just not my thing. And because I am truly in love with myself, this site is targeted at a single reader, me. This is my personal portfolio and collection of lists and thoughts by me and for me.

Don't get me wrong, these guys have got it figured out, but I am actually sort of disappointed in how all of these sites follow a basic Wordpress cookie cutter layout, and more often than not, are full of advertisements. But, if John Chow can make more scratch blogging than I can with a masters in electrical engineering, much respect is due. (He has only been blogging for a few months?)

Although I'm not exactly proud of it, I have been blogging since I was 17 and as soon as I got to college I realized I didn't want to be 'that guy' with ads all over my page. Even though my blog during college sold t-shirts, I've made less than 50 bucks my entire life from the web. (Wow, I was a little whoreish back then... look at the watermarks on the photos.)

In conclusion, the web is full of sell out bloggers who are probably making more money than you and certainly more money than me. And even though form should follow function, I think many of the 'dot com moguls' have lost site of the design that should go in to publishing content. But why should they care?

Nick Lewis
Carl Moeller
Bob Buskirk
Jon Waraas
David Lithman
Gary Lee
Ed Lau
John Chow dot Com
Nate Whitehill
Stephen Fung
Michael Kwan
Jeff Kee
Stuart Hannig
Hannes Johnson
Nomar
Nathan Drach
Saman Sadeghi

My Adds (sorta):

Dennis Cordova
Zak Griffith
Nikk Folts
Curtis Heimbuck

After taking that weird driving range picture below, I wanted to do a camera phone vs digital camera test.

a weird picture from my cell phone

I hit two big o buckets of balls today

bored on the book and the friend visualizer are showing up in some fun places like a paper on social network visualization
local copy

low scores aren't good? ...ah crap

*don't quit your day job*

UPDATE: Oh... the market took a dump for everyone. Stupid China...

... patience ...

Until yesterday, I had a catch-all address on austingriffith.com

Meaning, you could send an email to *anything*@austingriffith.com

After getting hundreds of spam email, I'm just using a@ or me@.

for bonnaroo in Tennessee

good thing we've got a map

i finally got some time to play with AIBattle

...nerdy...

$5

my fish are gonna hate me

is totally awesome

via bb

just found this old photo from spring break last year

man, that was a fun trip

I miss my old kitchen

March 9th

UPDATE: a guy I work with said when they show a movie in an iMax theater, they tend to shorten it. Any idea on how to figure out if we are going to see the full movie?

UPDATE: stills

my favorite web comic, xkcd says it best

i'm diggin on some bluetooth earbuds

kinda cool

better

oooo

gps

wine4.pcm

wine5.pcm

mmmm

these berries have been fermenting a wine all winter

I haven't been skiing since last Christmas in Jackson and I got my butt whooped.

This time around, I had an absolute blast!

I can't wait until I get to go again!

*cheers*

Dennis and I came in for a mid-day break and put down a serious amount of whiskey and coke.

It made the afternoon quite interesting.

Behold the gaseous planet of jupiter

Pandora is awesome...

Thanks Les and Dennis for the heads up!

Now if I could get it working on my phone...

...after seeing a funny graph Dennis had, I was reminded of Indexed

It is a neat site where Jessica Hagy graphs life.

I think I'm going to get a pair of these

I've been spending my free time for the last few days working on v025 of TypeCinch.

There are already some bugs I'm seeing, but Upgrading will add some new features including database backups, easier pictureList interface, new src options and a couple style changes here and there.

I also set it up to generate your content the first time it is viewed and then instead of hitting the database every time, it can just load the generated file.

For all the details, look for [v025] in the feature requests at typecinchdev.com

It can take normal audio input, an sd card, or even just a usb drive filled with songs... that's cool.

purchase

an awesome CD

trustymusket.com/music:5

I want to go see the flick soon

I'd like to get some storage for my phone

$58

It looks like almost 50% of my botb readers use firefox compared to about 3% hitting our work website. haha

still trying to get a picture out of this phone

out of 27,000 visitors from facebook, 250 can't handle java...
those numbers are good for developers

javaenabled.jpg

it would be nice to know what is hogging the electricity around the house

$20

another upload from the XV6700 to test

can't figure out how to get a good picture out of it

to test my new toy I took a picture of this delicious bloody mary

this phone is getting a damn fast internet connection here in ft collins

I have been really paying attention to design lately (although I know nothing about it) and I really like Dan Cederholm's work.

a stash subscription would be awesome

cool shirt

another shot

I'm surprised at how far I can zoom in on my house.

wikimapia is a neat project

Have the mugs you'll need in the morning?


His n' Hers ... n' Hers


http://cafepress.com/hismug
http://cafepress.com/hermug


hehe

MySpace is a wonderful idea connecting millions of people, but its design makes me want punch myself in the face.

Two pop-ups later, I was staring at more adds than content... and the ads were animated.

makes me laugh out loud when no one is around

I am really digging The Raconteurs 'Broken Boy Soldier'

Almost every song on the CD is the balls.

trustymusket.com/music:2

If I ever start a bar, I want to name it the Trusty Musket. It's just so much fun to say.

This weekend I added a bunch of file upload features to TypeCinch.

These new additions will hopefully allow for better file sharing. So I started a simple test site: http://TrustyMusket.com to upload and share some files and other information between friends.

...look

This little guy just sat there and stared back at us.

MMmmmmm I've grown to love the perfect cup of coffee

I still haven't quite gotten used to how beautiful I think it is here. One day, I'm sure I'll be sick of it, so I'm enjoying it while it lasts.

I guess I look like freddy with this new sweater.

Dennis snapped this picture from my office window.

I dig the mountains.

I guess it snows more down here than up in Wyoming. I hope it will be green and delicious in the spring and summer!

...and the start of me keeping track of myself in the professional world.

I am too excited. I think I peed.

Overall, I am feeling it will be comfortable. Not comfortable as in static and snuggled down, but more as stability through mobility. Staying unstuck is a goal.

TypeCinch is my current passion.

I am really enjoying work.

I keep busy with projects.

Still not too good with the ladies.

Still not too smart or tough... shoot.

but always on a tangent.

2007, let's do this.