gabriel mcgovern


a random image of me

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Hello World

Sometimes, I find myself feeling spread thin across the internet. There are the websites I maintain and the blogs that I publish content to. There are also the unintelligible comments I tend to leave scattered around.

So, consider this an attempt to gather all of the pieces. Perhaps it will help to paint a better picture of who I am.

My resume is available if you are interested - feel free to download a copy. However, I can guarantee that it will already be out of date by the time you read it. Contact me directly for more current information.

Aliases

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Music

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Featured Post: Bad Apples (tastes like spiced ham)

featured post thumbnailA few bad apples shouldn't be able to ruin it for everyone. However, on the internet, that is usually what happens... You set up a blog or mail form and everything goes great for a while. Then come the spammers. They want your attention and will do what ever it takes to get through. Some of it is obviously computer automated: Dear Sir / Madam. You want to save your money and get licensed medications? I bet you do! Others seem hand written: Hey Gabriel, Great blog. I really like your photos. Viagra Viagra Viagra. I am sure that every webmaster/blogger eventually goes through the sam...

Posted on 2008-01-03 | 1 comment(s)

@ work

Magic video enhancement?
2008-05-13: We have started adding regular video clips to our weekly web features. Entitled "In Their Own Words", the clips are short and raw - much like something that you would find on YouTube. Sometimes, I do...
PDXRIA - Amazon Web Services
2008-03-26: Mike Culver from Amazon web services came to speak to the PDXRIA group. In his own words: "I'm a Web services evangelist with Amazon Web Services. My day job--and my night and weekend passion--is wor...
iPhone SDK (4)
2008-03-06: Today, apple released the beta SDK for building your own iphone apps. During the announcement, there were some good points and some bad points. The good: iPhone Getting Multitouch Games In...
Shrinksafe is back!
2008-03-05: The dudes at dojo developed a great tool called shrinksafe that can safely optimize your JavaScript. It removes the whitespace and shortens local variable names, but leaves the function names alone....
Farewell Netscape
2008-02-29: Today marks the end of an era. Netscape Communicator was the first graphical web browser that I ever used. Mosaic may have come first, but for me and countless others, Netscape was our introduction...
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@ play

Little quackers (2)
2008-05-11: My friends Jamie and BK just became the proud parents of four baby ducks. These particular ducks will grow up to be Indian Runner Ducks. The breed is characterized by their peculiar stance. They te...
Rotten fruit lip balm (1)
2008-05-06: I spotted this in the bargain bin of a local store and took this fuzzy picture. At first, I thought that it was an unfortunate translation issue (non-native speaker confusing rotten for fresh or ri...
Big Mona
2008-04-30: Little Mona's Big Sister...
1K Tiny Mona (2)
2008-04-22: Even after giving Rob some guff about not optimizing his image - he was kind enough to append my comment to the original 1K Competition post. So, I decided to take the challenge and create a real 1K e...
1K Competition (4)
2008-04-22: Over on BoingBoing Gadgets, Rob Beschizza lets us know that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has just shipped it's 1 billionth drive. To commemorate the event, he asked readers to create something less...
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