gabriel mcgovern
Mmmmmm... Robot Juice!
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 However, I can guarantee that it will already be out of date by the time you read it.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.
Expertise
examples of:Aliases
that I go by:- gabrielm - BoingBoing
- gabrielmcgovern - gotoandplay
- gabrielm - lifehacker/gizmodo
- slash5-toaster - ebay
Featured Post: Bad Apples (tastes like spiced ham)
A 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
- The joy of compression
- 2008-08-05: I gave a little talk at our monthly "All Developers Meeting" today. The topic was web optimization. Recently we setup http compression on our servers and I decided to take a look at how much bandwidth...
- A List Apart - the survey
- 2008-07-29: A List Apart is currently conducting their yearly survey: The Survey, 2008 Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyon...
- RSS autodiscovery on every page (of a static site)
- 2008-07-10: So you have some feeds and want browsers to be able to find them using autodiscovery. The problem Unfortunatly, you have static pages and would have to update each one to add the <link> tag. A...
- Safely using FeedBurner
- 2008-07-09: So you have some feeds and you want to track subscriptions using FeedBurner. The problem? FeedBurner is a great service and probably will stay that way since it was recently acuired by google. Howev...
- Extracting DVD Subtitles
- 2008-07-02: Problem Our foundation has a great little video produced by an outside complany and they want us to put it online, but... We require that all online video includes captioning for accessibility (...
- More '@ work' available »»
- There are total of 89 postings.
@ play
- Monica
- 2008-08-07: Pic of monica...
- Wordpress iPhone App Attack
- 2008-07-22: This post was created using the new iPhone Wordpress application. A few days ago, I posted about my excitement. Now that I have had a chance to use it - I can say that I am not disappointed. It is a...
- Wordpress on the iPhone (1)
- 2008-07-10: Matt Mullenweg of wordpress fame just announced: "We're doing an iPhone-native WordPress client, check out the screencast here. It will work for both .com and .org, be available FREE from the App Sto...
- Fireworks
- 2008-07-08: For the forth, we went down to the waterfront to watch the fireworks. Portland puts on a pretty good show. I forgot to bring a camera - but found that the iPhone takes pretty good firework shots: [...
- Obama has a posse (1)
- 2008-07-03: Looks like Andre isn't the only one. Spotted this on the corner of 13th and Nehalem St:...
- More '@ play' available »»
- There are total of 52 postings.