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Donnie Ray Jones

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Day One Book v2.0

January 21, 2016

In Day One Book v1.0 I used HTML and CSS to turn my Day One Journal entries into a PDF which I could then print using Blurb. This worked OK…

Amateur Photography

February 11, 2015

I’m often asked what kind of camera I have and if I have any tips for getting started in photography. I usually feel uncomfortable when…

The 40 sqft Standing Office

February 07, 2015

When I began working from home I decided to look into a standing desk. My primary motivation? I didn’t want to pay several hundred dollars…

Publishing a Day One Journal as a Book

March 22, 2014

My wife and I keep a journal of notes to our twin girls in Day One. After a year of journaling, I wanted to print the entries in a physical…

How I Built PandoRdio

February 19, 2013

PandoRdio is a Google Chrome Extension that adds a song to your Rdio collection after you “thumbs up” a song in Pandora. Easy, Right? While…

Flickr Original Images Atom Feed

September 18, 2012

The Problem I want my desktop wallpaper to rotate through my Flickr Favorites. I need the original (or large-sized) images, and I want the…

The Kindle: Physical vs. Digital

February 12, 2012

I read so much more on my Kindle! Liars - that’s what I thought. Either they were lying, or were tricked into thinking they’ve read more…

Budgeting with Google Docs

March 06, 2011

Budgeting is Hard While in college I used Mint to manage my finances and budget. Budgeting for myself was hard; budgeting for two people is…

My Favorite Chrome Extensions

February 01, 2011

I recently switched to Google Chrome (from Mozilla Firefox) as my primary browser. I still use Firefox when I need to do heavy-lifting web…

My Favorite Mac Apps

January 18, 2011

I’m planning on doing a series of posts of my favorite things: Mac Apps Chrome Extensions Firefox Addons Windows Apps iPhone Apps These…

Cr-48 Chrome Notebook - First Thoughts

December 19, 2010

When I got home from work Friday I was surprised with Google’s Cr-48 Chrome Notebook at my doorstep. I had signed up for the pilot program…

Learning Vim

December 12, 2010

I plan on diving into Ruby on my Mac soon and was in need of a good editor. I’ve been wanting to use TextMate, but with a $50 price tag (and…

Using a Custom RouteHandler in MVC 2

February 21, 2010

So I was trying to use a custom RouteHandler in ASP.NET MVC 2 to allow for hyphens (as opposed to CamelCase or underscores) in my urls. I…

Hide Gmail Ads in Fluid

January 04, 2010

After several minutes of trying different userscripts to hide Gmail’s sponsored links, I discovered that Fluid has built in support for…