Burger & Bordeaux, RIP

by jpreardon on January 30, 2010

Sometime in the winter of 2006, my good friend Jonas and I had a couple burgers and some wine at Café Loup. Burgers so good in fact–and wine in an adequate quantity–that we decided to write about the experience. A (…)

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Communication is Expensive

by jpreardon on January 24, 2010

Communication is expensive indeed. I’m not talking about long distance minutes here (those are quite inexpensive these days). I’m referring to communication between people on a team and within an organization. Everyone agrees that good communication is essential, but unnecessary (…)

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Google Analytics Mobile Tracking With Rails

by jpreardon on January 17, 2010

Update 2010-05-12: At some point in the last couple weeks, the option for creating a mobile GATC seems to have disappeared. Mobile tracking, as described below, seems to be working. But, I have heard of others having problems. There doesn’t (…)

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Asynchronous Google Analytics Tracking Code

by jpreardon on January 6, 2010

Google Analytics has released an asynchronous version of their tracking code. Listed among the benefits of using the asynchronous tracking code are shorter page load times and more accurate visitor tracking–both good reasons to consider using the asynchronous code. Implementing (…)

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“we don’t need half of what we got.”

by jpreardon on January 3, 2010

we don’t need half of what we got. – Barbara Koricanek in the New York Times I couldn’t agree more. The Times reports that a trend among Americans seems to value experiences over things. Let’s hope this trend continues.

One More Resolution

by jpreardon on January 2, 2010

Everyone is tired of hearing about New Year’s Resolutions by now–it’s the second day of the year after all. But, this is one we would all do well by: Cut down still further on American fast food. –Dave Cook (Eating (…)

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Happy New Year!

by jpreardon on January 1, 2010

I’m not posting any resolutions this year, although, I do have a couple. We’ll see if I can stick to them for more than a few days. If you’re feeling a bit rough this New Year’s Day, take some pleasure (…)

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