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My Departure From Twitter
On May 22nd, 2007 at 5:35pm I posted my first Tweet. After fighting it for awhile and finally being convinced by my friend Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) I decided to start using Twitter as a way to network. And thus began my experiment. Now exactly 2 years and 4,757 updates later I have decided it’s time [...]
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I really admire Richard Branson (Virgin Group) ever since I read his autobiography Losing My Virginity. This morning I came across this post about fasting for Darfur on his blog. In this post he outlines his reasons for fasting. And they largely center around bringing awareness of the issues in Darfur. While I think there is [...]
In my last post I mentioned that I was currently drafting a new Personal Online Code of Conduct. My goal is to move away from the need to be constantly connected and also to make sure the time I am connected is time well spent creating value, not just consuming and adding to the online [...]
TextMate by Macromates is by far the best code writing/development tool I’ve ever used. Not only is it awesome at face value, but the depth of features and extras make it the ultimate productivity booster when developing. What’s equally amazing is how it accomplishes this with no bloat. If you spend any [...]
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- How Much Of Life Are You Actually Living?
If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life. - Time Wastes Too Fast - And the Pursuit of Happiness Blog - NYTimes.com
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Check out this website I found at dustincurtis.com AMAZING visual representation of a life. ... - How To Hack Your Brain, Part 1: Sleep | Dustin Curtis
via dustincurtis.com I've looked into polyphasic sleep before, but this article makes it easy to read about with it's beautiful design. ... - Abandoned Places In The World
The abandoned places can look charming or they can look frightening, we tried to present it all. The abandoned cities of the former USSR look almost like clones and they resemble the concentration camps from the times of the World War II. - 18 Useful bash scripts for web developers | emson…
Here are a few scripts, that I find really useful for speeding up my web development time. - jQuery TOOLS - The UI library for the Web
This library contains six of the most useful JavaScript tools available for today's website. The beauty of this library is that all of these tools can be used together, extended, configured and styled. In the end, you can have hundreds of different widgets and new personal ways of using the library. - Dreamers - Tom's Meandering Mind
You're going to wear out the snooze button again. Shower, shave, put the coffee on. Don the standard attire; suit jacket, a pair of slacks. Hair's getting a bit long; you should probably take care of that.
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My name is Ben Rasmusen.
A 26 year old web professional currently
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- Akon – I'm So Paid ft. Lil' Wayne and Young Jeezy
- The Airborne Toxic Event – Wishing Well - Final Mastered
- Cute Is What We Aim For – The Curse Of Curves
- Coldplay – Viva la Vida
- Akon – I'm So Paid ft. Lil' Wayne and Young Jeezy
- Tegan and Sara – Nineteen
- Kings of Leon – Crawl
- Vampire Weekend – Walcott
