RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

KOALAS CONTROL THE WEATHER I'm pretty good at guessing plots of movies, but I have to say this one completely twisted my mind. Actually, if you had told me the entire plot in detail before hand, I still don't think I would have quite grasped what you were saying. I barely got it as the movie progressed as it was. That said, I liked it. Though I definitely think there wasn't nearly enough hints as to what was going on in ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

KOALAS CONTROL THE WEATHER I'm pretty good at guessing plots of movies, but I have to say this one completely twisted my mind. Actually, if you had told me the entire plot in detail before hand, I still don't think I would have quite grasped what you were saying. I barely got it as the movie progressed as it was. That said, I liked it. Though I definitely think there wasn't nearly enough hints as to what was going on in ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands.

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A few days ago I decided to stop updating Twitter with random thoughts. I turned to Facebook status updates as an outlet, but that seemed much more limited for some reason. That doesn't make sense as I was updating Facebook via my Twitter account before, so it should have been the same, but mentally it wasn't. This is a good thing, as now, a few days later, there's been a slow insatiable KOALAS CONTROL THE WEATHER I'm pretty good at guessing plots of movies, but I have to say this one completely twisted my mind. Actually, if you had told me the entire plot in detail before hand, I still don't think I would have quite grasped what you were saying. I barely got it as the movie progressed as it was. That said, I liked it. Though I definitely think there wasn't nearly enough hints as to what was going on in DISTRIBUTED REVISION CONTROL SYSTEMS: GIT VS. MERCURIAL VS Update June, 2011: This is a pretty old post that I wrote when I first learned about distributed revision control stuff. This page keeps getting traffic though, so I should say that I've since decided to use git because of the utility of github.com and the fact that the git guys cleaned up a lot of the 'wonky' bits I wrote about below making it a no-brainer. There's more detailed pros/cons SEARCH - RUSSELL BEATTIE Russell Beattie. Home About Me Archives Tweets Links Search . Search

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Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston FLIP.IO - AN OPEN HTML5 WORD PUZZLE GAME - RUSSELL BEATTIE There's a game that was launched a couple years ago on iOS called Seven Little Words which I was addicted to for a few weeks back then. The author did a great job coming up with a completely new game mechanic for a word puzzle which is simple, yet very compelling: There are seven word definitions listed at the top, and a grid of squares containing 2 or 3 letters listed randomly at the WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like APPLE WILL LAUNCH A MOBILE PHONE WITHIN 18 MONTHS Okay, let me say that I don't have any real information. But Ross Mayfield turned me on to this thought in his post this morning. I'm convinced that Apple will get into the mobile phone business within the next 18 months. Why? Well, there's some logic, and there's also some amateur psychology involved as well. First it just makes sense. Apple is making a ton of money off of the iPod. YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

MY SLEEP GRAPH

My Sleep Graph. Posted Monday, May 17, 2010 1:18 pm. This year I decided to fix my horrible sleeping problems I've had for the past decade or so. A month ago I had an operation to take out my tonsils and fix my deviated septum to help alleviate my sleep apnea (a whole other long post, which I probably will never write as I don't actually

want

SEARCH - RUSSELL BEATTIE Russell Beattie. Home About Me Archives Tweets Links Search . Search

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. APPLE WILL LAUNCH A MOBILE PHONE WITHIN 18 MONTHS Okay, let me say that I don't have any real information. But Ross Mayfield turned me on to this thought in his post this morning. I'm convinced that Apple will get into the mobile phone business within the next 18 months. Why? Well, there's some logic, and there's also some amateur psychology involved as well. First it just makes sense. Apple is making a ton of money off of the iPod. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

MY SLEEP GRAPH

My Sleep Graph. Posted Monday, May 17, 2010 1:18 pm. This year I decided to fix my horrible sleeping problems I've had for the past decade or so. A month ago I had an operation to take out my tonsils and fix my deviated septum to help alleviate my sleep apnea (a whole other long post, which I probably will never write as I don't actually

want

SEARCH - RUSSELL BEATTIE Russell Beattie. Home About Me Archives Tweets Links Search . Search

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. APPLE WILL LAUNCH A MOBILE PHONE WITHIN 18 MONTHS Okay, let me say that I don't have any real information. But Ross Mayfield turned me on to this thought in his post this morning. I'm convinced that Apple will get into the mobile phone business within the next 18 months. Why? Well, there's some logic, and there's also some amateur psychology involved as well. First it just makes sense. Apple is making a ton of money off of the iPod.

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Try my game! About seven years ago, I made a web-based clone of an commercial word puzzle app I liked, but with extra game tweaks I wanted to have (like hints). That little project got me hired at Amazon, actually. I just updated it, gave it a new name and website:

https://clever.io.

RUSSELLBEATTIE PORTFOLIO Technologist, Strategist and Entrepreneur with a focus on Web and

Mobility

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Russell Beattie's Weblog. Hi, my name is Russell Beattie and this is my website. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at russ@russellbeattie.com or you can follow me on Twitter here.. Check out my resume for more details about my work life. I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles

RUSSELLBEATTIE.COM

Qualifications Product Management and Developer Relations. At Amazon Lab126, worked with external and internal developers to promote Amazon's Web App Platform for Fire OS, creating sample code, presentations and blog posts, speaking at industry conferences, as well as doing product management on new projects and bringing feedback

to internal team.

TETRIS SPLASH

Tetris Splash. Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:43 pm. Since I exchanged my Wii for an XBox 360 last week, I've been happily playing "casual" Arcade games at night while listening to NPR on the radio. One of the best ones is also the most classic: Tetris. When I first got the 360 a couple years ago, one of the things I really wanted was

Tetris

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

MOBILE BUSINESS PLAN: 'DOT MOB' Here's the first of various business plans I'm working on right now. I use "business" and "plan" loosely as I'm a techie and so I'm looking at what's needed from a technical perspective, but these ideas may not be viable from a business perspective. Also, I am only thinking of

things that I

FUCK - RUSSELL BEATTIE I'm constantly amazed at people's reactions to the word "fuck" in my blog. They can watch HBO daily, and it's okay, but seeing it in a blog is somehow shocking! HOW INAPPROPRIATE! SWEARING! IN A BLOG NO LESS! THE AUDACITY! And before they dare include a link, they have to warn their readers of "strong language". VIRGIN MOBILE USA ACTUALLY HAS A CLUE! Wow, so here I am bitching about how the U.S. mobile telecom operators are clueless and not learning from the European model (i.e. receiving calls and SMS messages for free), and there's Virgin Mobile out there the whole time doing something pretty close. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

MY SLEEP GRAPH

My Sleep Graph. Posted Monday, May 17, 2010 1:18 pm. This year I decided to fix my horrible sleeping problems I've had for the past decade or so. A month ago I had an operation to take out my tonsils and fix my deviated septum to help alleviate my sleep apnea (a whole other long post, which I probably will never write as I don't actually

want

SEARCH - RUSSELL BEATTIE Russell Beattie. Home About Me Archives Tweets Links Search . Search

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. APPLE WILL LAUNCH A MOBILE PHONE WITHIN 18 MONTHS Okay, let me say that I don't have any real information. But Ross Mayfield turned me on to this thought in his post this morning. I'm convinced that Apple will get into the mobile phone business within the next 18 months. Why? Well, there's some logic, and there's also some amateur psychology involved as well. First it just makes sense. Apple is making a ton of money off of the iPod. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. ARCHIVES - RUSSELL BEATTIE Bored with my blog. Google Mindlessly Blocks Mowser Ad Swapping. Holy s***, look at the size of that ramp! My Comment on Yet Another O'Reilly iPhone Post. N810 WiMAX: Yes! Green Tea, Toast with butter and honey, and Daft Punk.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

MY SLEEP GRAPH

My Sleep Graph. Posted Monday, May 17, 2010 1:18 pm. This year I decided to fix my horrible sleeping problems I've had for the past decade or so. A month ago I had an operation to take out my tonsils and fix my deviated septum to help alleviate my sleep apnea (a whole other long post, which I probably will never write as I don't actually

want

SEARCH - RUSSELL BEATTIE Russell Beattie. Home About Me Archives Tweets Links Search . Search

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. APPLE WILL LAUNCH A MOBILE PHONE WITHIN 18 MONTHS Okay, let me say that I don't have any real information. But Ross Mayfield turned me on to this thought in his post this morning. I'm convinced that Apple will get into the mobile phone business within the next 18 months. Why? Well, there's some logic, and there's also some amateur psychology involved as well. First it just makes sense. Apple is making a ton of money off of the iPod.

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Try my game! About seven years ago, I made a web-based clone of an commercial word puzzle app I liked, but with extra game tweaks I wanted to have (like hints). That little project got me hired at Amazon, actually. I just updated it, gave it a new name and website:

https://clever.io.

RUSSELLBEATTIE PORTFOLIO Technologist, Strategist and Entrepreneur with a focus on Web and

Mobility

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Russell Beattie's Weblog. Hi, my name is Russell Beattie and this is my website. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at russ@russellbeattie.com or you can follow me on Twitter here.. Check out my resume for more details about my work life. I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles

RUSSELLBEATTIE.COM

Qualifications Product Management and Developer Relations. At Amazon Lab126, worked with external and internal developers to promote Amazon's Web App Platform for Fire OS, creating sample code, presentations and blog posts, speaking at industry conferences, as well as doing product management on new projects and bringing feedback

to internal team.

TETRIS SPLASH

Tetris Splash. Posted Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:43 pm. Since I exchanged my Wii for an XBox 360 last week, I've been happily playing "casual" Arcade games at night while listening to NPR on the radio. One of the best ones is also the most classic: Tetris. When I first got the 360 a couple years ago, one of the things I really wanted was

Tetris

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

MOBILE BUSINESS PLAN: 'DOT MOB' Here's the first of various business plans I'm working on right now. I use "business" and "plan" loosely as I'm a techie and so I'm looking at what's needed from a technical perspective, but these ideas may not be viable from a business perspective. Also, I am only thinking of

things that I

FUCK - RUSSELL BEATTIE I'm constantly amazed at people's reactions to the word "fuck" in my blog. They can watch HBO daily, and it's okay, but seeing it in a blog is somehow shocking! HOW INAPPROPRIATE! SWEARING! IN A BLOG NO LESS! THE AUDACITY! And before they dare include a link, they have to warn their readers of "strong language". VIRGIN MOBILE USA ACTUALLY HAS A CLUE! Wow, so here I am bitching about how the U.S. mobile telecom operators are clueless and not learning from the European model (i.e. receiving calls and SMS messages for free), and there's Virgin Mobile out there the whole time doing something pretty close. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

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RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

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RUSSELL BEATTIE

Try my game! About seven years ago, I made a web-based clone of an commercial word puzzle app I liked, but with extra game tweaks I wanted to have (like hints). That little project got me hired at Amazon, actually. I just updated it, gave it a new name and website:

https://clever.io.

HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though ANDROID TABLETS: IT'S THE BROWSER About six weeks ago, I decided I needed to really grok the Android platform, so I turned off my beloved iPad 2, wrapped it in a foam cover which I taped up, placed the bundle into a box which I also wrapped with several layers of duct tape, and put it in the back of the highest, out of reach shelf I could find (the one in the corner of the kitchen, where you need to have a ladder to get back

BORED WITH MY BLOG

Bored with my blog. Posted Sunday, April 6, 2008 3:34 pm. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was totally into it and posted as much as I could - maybe four or five times a day if the mood struck me. The problem with that is that you start to get into a mode where everything you do in life seems to be simply excuses to write about it

in your

WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results.

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. VIRGIN MOBILE USA ACTUALLY HAS A CLUE! Wow, so here I am bitching about how the U.S. mobile telecom operators are clueless and not learning from the European model (i.e. receiving calls and SMS messages for free), and there's Virgin Mobile out there the whole time doing something pretty close.

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

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USING BLUETOOTH AS YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION Looking for something else, I stumbled upon this in an All About Symbian forum. I had read before that I could use the Bluetooth connection to my PC as my network connection from my phone instead of GPRS, but was clueless as to how. This thread gives all the details: Q: i have adsl on my pc. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

Russell Beattie's Weblog. (Make sure you click on the image):-)-Russ <

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RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

Russell Beattie's Weblog. (Make sure you click on the image):-)-Russ <

Previous Next >

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Try my game! About seven years ago, I made a web-based clone of an commercial word puzzle app I liked, but with extra game tweaks I wanted to have (like hints). That little project got me hired at Amazon, actually. I just updated it, gave it a new name and website:

https://clever.io.

HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though ANDROID TABLETS: IT'S THE BROWSER About six weeks ago, I decided I needed to really grok the Android platform, so I turned off my beloved iPad 2, wrapped it in a foam cover which I taped up, placed the bundle into a box which I also wrapped with several layers of duct tape, and put it in the back of the highest, out of reach shelf I could find (the one in the corner of the kitchen, where you need to have a ladder to get back

BORED WITH MY BLOG

Bored with my blog. Posted Sunday, April 6, 2008 3:34 pm. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was totally into it and posted as much as I could - maybe four or five times a day if the mood struck me. The problem with that is that you start to get into a mode where everything you do in life seems to be simply excuses to write about it

in your

WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results.

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. VIRGIN MOBILE USA ACTUALLY HAS A CLUE! Wow, so here I am bitching about how the U.S. mobile telecom operators are clueless and not learning from the European model (i.e. receiving calls and SMS messages for free), and there's Virgin Mobile out there the whole time doing something pretty close.

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

Russell Beattie's Weblog. (Make sure you click on the image):-)-Russ <

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USING BLUETOOTH AS YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION Looking for something else, I stumbled upon this in an All About Symbian forum. I had read before that I could use the Bluetooth connection to my PC as my network connection from my phone instead of GPRS, but was clueless as to how. This thread gives all the details: Q: i have adsl on my pc. RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. RUSSELLBEATTIE.COMSEE MORE ON RUSSELLBEATTIE.COM MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

RUSSELL BEATTIEMY (NEGLECTED) BLOGRUSSELL BEATTIE NOTEBOOKMY RESUME Hi! I'm Russell Beattie.. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. RUSSELLBEATTIE.COMSEE MORE ON RUSSELLBEATTIE.COM MY THOUGHTS ON THE END OF NEUROMANCER At the end, the result is a sense of, "wow, that was lucky" rather than a sense of fulfilling a destiny. The characters in the book are all introduced within a context of a wild-west style future, so any failings they may have, or crimes they may have committed seem justified by their surroundings, and as a reader you are immediately

on their side.

SUPER WHY ROCKS!

Alex is watching some Saturday morning cartoons while I try to gain consciousness, and I saw a preview of a new show called Super WHY that looked pretty cool, so I found it on On Demand, and it's *great*. The animation is cool, the music is cool and it's *super* engaging. The munchkin is sitting on the couch yelling out words to help put them into sentences, and picking out "super letters" to BASKETBALL BOUNCINESS Spring has sprung in California, so I went up to Big5 and spent the princely sum of $1.25 for a needle to blow up my basketball, which has gone flat after, oh, a couple years of being completely ignored. But now, inspired by the weather and my non-stop weight gain lately, I've decided to go down and shoot around, and hopefully make it a habit

again.

ADULT THOUGHTS WHILE WATCHING WALL-E The munchkin and I went to go see the matinee of WALL-E yesterday and it was pretty great! Definitely recommended for the whole family. If you haven't seen it, though, you probably don't want to read the rest of this post as I don't want to give any spoilers or take away from the innocent wonder of seeing the movie for the first time. We good?

Okay.

COLLEGE LIFE

Wired News has an article about a "virtual exchange" of university students at MIT in Massachusetts and Universidad Polit�cnica in Valencia, Spain. College Kids: A Day in the Life At the Universidad Polit�cnica de Valencia in Spain, students play f�tbol, dance at discotecas and live in apartments or at home with their families. Thousands of miles away, students at MIT in Boston WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. WATCH FAHRENHEIT 9/11 NOW Please feel free to check out Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 online in streaming video now (available until I get a takedown order). I

think this is a

RUSSELL BEATTIE

Try my game! About seven years ago, I made a web-based clone of an commercial word puzzle app I liked, but with extra game tweaks I wanted to have (like hints). That little project got me hired at Amazon, actually. I just updated it, gave it a new name and website:

https://clever.io.

HOW I LEARNED TO WRITE I recently read a blog post about someone who was having trouble figuring out how to write a 'good blog post', but really the author was stuck even getting started. Really, she wasn't having problems writing a *good* post, but with writing full-stop. It reminded of a lesson that I learned years ago while working at a small daily paper near where I grew up in New Hampshire. I'll warn you though FLIP.IO - AN OPEN HTML5 WORD PUZZLE GAME - RUSSELL BEATTIE There's a game that was launched a couple years ago on iOS called Seven Little Words which I was addicted to for a few weeks back then. The author did a great job coming up with a completely new game mechanic for a word puzzle which is simple, yet very compelling: There are seven word definitions listed at the top, and a grid of squares containing 2 or 3 letters listed randomly at the

BORED WITH MY BLOG

Bored with my blog. Posted Sunday, April 6, 2008 3:34 pm. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was totally into it and posted as much as I could - maybe four or five times a day if the mood struck me. The problem with that is that you start to get into a mode where everything you do in life seems to be simply excuses to write about it

in your

YOU DON'T NEED TO USE JQUERY TO SCRAPE HTML PAGES WITH I saw this article earlier called "jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js" and thought it was pretty cool. I tried it out, and it worked like a charm to parse a webpage. I didn't realize how easy it was to use jsdom with an external library like that, and I was pretty impressed with how fast it processed and returned the results. WHAT'S ON MY NOKIA 6600/6620 I've gotten this request a few times lately, so it's time to write it up here, no? With my 3650 I was pretty experimental - I loaded up just about everything I found and kept a lot of stuff that may not have done me a whole hell of a lot of good. With my 6600, however, I've been much more reserved. For one, I don't have as much money to spend right now on mobile apps, so some things I'd like

TRUE REPUBLICAN

In my email: From: chris To: russ@russellbeattie.com Subject: wow wow for someone as faggoty lookin as you i'm surprised you even have the balls to go up against republicans over the internet. Lets face it faggot only real men are republicans. The majority of democratic males (that would be u cock smoker) are little pussies. VIRGIN MOBILE USA ACTUALLY HAS A CLUE! Wow, so here I am bitching about how the U.S. mobile telecom operators are clueless and not learning from the European model (i.e. receiving calls and SMS messages for free), and there's Virgin Mobile out there the whole time doing something pretty close.

HAWAIIAN SHIRT DAY

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USING BLUETOOTH AS YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION Looking for something else, I stumbled upon this in an All About Symbian forum. I had read before that I could use the Bluetooth connection to my PC as my network connection from my phone instead of GPRS, but was clueless as to how. This thread gives all the details: Q: i have adsl on my pc. HI! I'M RUSSELL BEATTIE. About me: I grew up in New England, went to school in New Hampshire, have lived in or around Miami, Atlanta, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Madrid Spain, traveled throughout Europe, and visited Egypt, Mexico, Canada and a bunch of Caribbean islands. I currently reside in gorgeous Mountain View, California (near San Francisco in Silicon

Valley).

I went to college for Graphic Design and Journalism, became a programmer and consultant in the mid 1990s, and a blogger, developer advocate, speaker and product manager in the 2000s. I speak Spanish fluently from my time in Spain, and I'm a die-hard Liberal, total geek, stand 6'3" and have turned almost entirely grey haired before my time. I also have a wonderful teenage son who's heading off to

college.

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at russ@russellbeattie.com or you can find more about me at the links

below:

* My Resume

* LinkedIn

* Instagram

* Facebook

* YouTube

* Github

* My (neglected) Blog

* Try my word game!