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Speed reading with Zap Reader and Spreeder

Got another article up over on DownLoad Squad. It covered two application that let you speed read content on the internet. Thought you all might find it useful and worth a read. You can read the article here.

I’ve been an on again off again speed reader for some time. Every couple of years I find […]

Ian to speak in Seattle about Ajax/Yahoo User Interface

Thursday February 1st -  I’ll be speaking at the Seattle ColdFusion Users Group at 6:30 PM on the first. The topic will be the Yahoo User Inteface and Ajax. I’ll probably talk a little bit about Joe’s Goals as well as other projects I’ve worked on. If you are a developer or other interested party […]

Happy Birthday: Joe is turning 25!

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Good morning everyone. Tomorrow I turn 25. That’s right, I’ll be a quarter century old! Can you believe it? I can’t. I’m looking forward to spending the next 25 years with my beautiful wife though. I guess I should be, seeing as how I spent the last 25 growing up enough to “win” her.
So I’m […]

Article: The tipping point for online games

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I posted a new article on Download Squad. Check it out.
Have browser based games reached their tipping point? The evidence says yes. And this will quickly lead to a huge influx of better and more accessible browser based games pushing an old industry into the mainstream for the first time. Let me explain.

Joe becomes a Download Squad Contributor

Good morning everyone! Today I’m really excited to announce that I’ve become a blogger over at the Download Squad blog. I’ll be doing weekly or semi-weekly posts on products and applications I use to “hack” my life. This page will update with a list of my posts and I encourage you to bookmark it to […]

Pandora - The coolest way to find music you like

Sometimes I code best when there is total silence. Other times I need music. But what music? Pandora is a service that takes a song or artist you like and builds a radio station around it. The services uses the Music Gnome Project to map the music based on the qualities a song contains. You […]

Joe’s Goals in the news (a lot)

New Years hit and so did all the people looking to keep their New Years resolutions. Here are just a few of the links that Joe has gotten in the last couple of days:

Lifehacker: “You’ve decided to quit smoking, post to your blog, bring lunch to work or regulate your sleeping patterns every day. Track […]

Two brilliant history websites

I’m a huge fan of history, having just yesterday finished the excellent America - The Last Best Hope by William Bennett. Before that I was reading 1491, a highly speculative but excellent read on the continents of North and South America before the Europeans arrived. I can highly recommend both books. I also use the […]

Impossible objects that will amaze you

For your consideration:

How did they do that? Or, better yet, why did they do that? That is the question that keeps going through your mind when you browse John Rausch’s Puzzle World. The site offers a huge selection of web puzzles as well as many many profiles of impossible objects, real world puzzles, and obscure […]

Awesome Video: 3d engine animation

I happen to be one of those folks who opted to focus my learning and attention more on the finer arts (such as HTML and StarCrraft) and, as such, I’ve always been left to wonder just exactly how all the parts in an engine fit and work together. Now, thanks to the following brilliantly done […]