Archive for October, 2006

Google Gadget: Add Joe’s Badge to your Personal Homepage

Thanks to the awesome coding skills of Daniel Beck you can now add your Joe’s Goals badge to your Google Personalized Homepage! Daniel is a Technical Writing undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida. Everyone give him a round of applause! You can view his blog by clicking on his name above.
To add the […]

Quick guide to making a transparent favicon

I’m so happy! I finally figured out how to make a transparent favicon. It seems like not a month goes by that I hear from some Joe’s Goals user who tells me how much they really like the application and use it daily, but would really like it if I could just fix one little […]

Geography Game: Place all 50 US States

Stumbled across this game over on reddit and thought it was worth a post. The game has you placing all 50 US states on a map. It tracks the number you placed correctly as well as how far you were off by. Very useful and cool way to learn US Geography in a recognizable way. […]

Photo: Watch your step

Filed under other stuff

A half hour or so after I got to work this morning a SUV tried to go off-road and down-stairs outside our building. Crazy photo courtesy of a friend/co-worker and the Seatte Times. No word on the cause but police blamed the rain. ‘course traffic in Seattle always has problems when it is raining, or […]

Couple of small code updates

Just wanted to let you know I made a couple of small updates to Joe’s Goals today. Nothing too major, but I’ve listed them below:

Refreshed landing pages and removed some old/outdated text.
Set badges up so that they now display on your goal grid when you turn them on. This is a great way to see […]

Video: Joe’s Goals friend on JibJab

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John Boyle, friend and co-worker, was a big help early on with Joe’s Goals and helped give me ideas on how to approach media outlets and promote the application. A few weeks ago Train of Thought, John’s sketch comedy group (responsible for PuppetTom, among other things), flew out to JibJab to record a short sketch […]

Weight Tracking and the High Cost of Being Overweight

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2003-2004, an estimated 66 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese, along with 17 percent of children and adolescents. The total annual cost of obesity was an estimated $117 billion in 2000.
J.D. has a great article up at Get Rich Slowly talking about the […]

Wallpapr - a Flickr wallpaper finder

Marco Gomes sent me a quick note to let me know about a cool little Flickr wallpaper finder he built using the Flickr API. What better excuse can you have to post a cool sunset photo? Check it out, especially if you are a big flickr fan. It is a really cool way to find […]

Introducing Joe’s Goals Badges - plus bug fixes and more

“How can I show my score to my friends?” That is one of the most common requests I get as captain of the H.M.S. Joe’s Goals. Well ask no longer!
Today, thanks to the mad Jedi coding powers of an ordinary Joe’s Goals user, we are introducing Badges. Joe’s Goals Badges are live graphics that you […]

In the news: Screencast for Logbook, Reviews, and more

So back when I launched Joe’s Goals I was really excited/blown away when someone put up a Screencast of my little baby application. Now the good people at Screeniac have done it again with a very good Screencast of the combined Joe’s Goals/Joe’s Logbook application. This is an excellent resource if you’ve been having touble […]