Social network badges & opportunities

By rickColosimo / December 11, 2008 / Comments Off on Social network badges & opportunities

The title of this post links to the page pinged by a Facebook badge I just created. I’m considering adding these to our contact pages (http://www.imetrick.com/ and http://www.imetmikeprinci.com/). Are these useful to anyone? I’m not sure — I think it depends greatly on whether you have a social networking strategy (even if that strategy is…

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Evidence-based food preparation

By rickColosimo / November 14, 2008 /

After reading this post on Springwise (a site/feed I enjoy very much), I realized that I needed to post another orphaned idea. People have seen a number of “prepared food” offerings, where a company delivers a bunch of meals to you or your family that are designed (usually) to control portions and assist in weight-loss.…

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Allegheny College Gets WSJ Mention

By rickColosimo / November 7, 2008 / Comments Off on Allegheny College Gets WSJ Mention

In this article on lawyer/presidents (or president/lawyers, if you prefer), the WSJ‘s Law Blog notes that William McKinley, the 25th President, attended Allegheny College (“briefly attended,” according to this biography) and “for one term” according to his Wikipedia entry. So, if we’re grading on a curve, I’ve managed to graduate from Allegheny and from a…

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Applet wanted – $50 bounty

By rickColosimo / September 3, 2008 / Comments Off on Applet wanted – $50 bounty

Wanted: a work-for-hire (so it can be released under a CC license for non-commercial use, exact license TBD) software applet, either for an iPhone or for a Fujitsu laptop (running Vista). Feature: uses internal accelerometer(s), shock sensor, or similar functions at the hardware level as input for output that describes the motion of the phone/laptop…

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