http://www.eightfivethree.com the personal weblog of travis johnson Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:41:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Buzz opened to all publishers last night I decided to throw together a Wordpress plugin to easily put Buzz badges on my blog. I then and put up a quick tweet announcing the plugin. Pat tried it out and put up a post about Buzz and the plugin. ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/08/19/wordpress-plugin-for-buzz/ Despite my lack of updates here, I've been having a great summer. If you follow me on Twitter this will all be old news and if you don't follow me there you should. Summer kicked off with me and Rachel getting a puppy. Crusher is a Boston terrier / chihuahua ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/08/17/summer-update/ I've been running the iPhone 2.0 software for a couple weeks and think apple has definitely improved their mobile phone offering, but I have some issues with the entire platform. I was most excited for the new apps to be able to use my current location. I was hoping for social ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/07/23/iphone-20/ I've been trying hard to figure out the right mix between posting here and on Twitter. Over the past few months I've clearly been giving preference to the latter. This morning I discovered the wordpress iPhone app that looks to be a pretty good tool to post to this blog ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/07/22/from-the-phone/ http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/06/08/crusher-the-wizard/ Rachel put together a video complication of a few camera videos we've taken of Crusher over the past few weeks. http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/06/01/crusher-on-flickr/ A few friends from the office went in together and got a 10 game mini pack of tickets local Single-A ball club here in Eugene, [The Emeralds](http://eugene.emeralds.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t461). The tickets recently arrived and below is the schedule. I am most excited about the July 2nd game because there will be fireworks ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/05/22/the-ems-this-summer/ Congtatulations to this year's Eightfivethtee Classic winner, ClownBaby. I don't know who you are, but if you identify yourself i will send you your prize. Needless to say, everyone in this year's classic did pretty well since KU won it all - and what win that was! While I didn't ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/04/12/1286/ I had to give [Google's new App Engine](http://code.google.com/appengine/ "Google App Engine - Google Code") a try, so I quickly [re-built my dad's The Bet site](http://thebet.mechroboticon.com/ "The Bet"). The one page-site was built in Python, because that's what you have to build all apps in and only took me about an ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/04/11/my-first-appengine-app/ Rachel and I went to see Vampire Weekend this past Tuesday in Portland. The show was short, but great. We had a spot right up front near the stage. They played most of their songs off their album and did a couple that they've recorded a few other places. It ... http://www.eightfivethree.com/2008/03/30/the-vampire-weekend-show/