http://hwork.org Henry Work Blog. Developer for TouringPlans.com. Formerly of TechCrunch (co-built CrunchBase). Once team captain of the Northern Bites. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:50:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I tried to hit every attraction in Disney's California Adventure on Sunday.... If I haven't pinned you down and explained the intricate details of the most recent meta-Disney habit of mine, I'll do it quickly here: I've started to do "extreme theme park touring." That is, trying to hit ... http://hwork.org/2010/02/08/ultimate-dca-touring-plan-attempt/ Just played around with the new Twitter Lists. Some notes.... -You can follow people on lists but not actually follow them. I've stopped following celebs and companies and just added them to lists. I don't need their tweets coming in the main stream, but I'll now check them ... http://hwork.org/2009/10/29/twitter-more-like-facebook/ DisneyParks.com now has a blog--and that's awesome. Props to @ThomasSmith and the whole @DisneyParks team. Here's is a random list of notes about their blog, both technical and not. They use WordPress (dot org version, they don't seem to be a wordpress.com VIP). Not sure what Disney's history ... http://hwork.org/2009/09/29/disney-parks-blog-details/ Continuing in my series of armchair "oh man Facebook should totally do X" posts, I gotta say, it's a sad to see Beacon die. Facebook could have used it to build one heck of a product search engine. Facebook's biggest problem is focus. When you google for a tennis ... http://hwork.org/2009/09/25/facebook-product-search-engine/ Facebook needs to enter the geo-location / mobile social network game, and now is the time to do it. I wrote two comments today on M.G. Siegler's (p)review of the new sweet-looking Facebook 3.0 iPhone App, and I felt this needed to be properly said. Now, this app looks freaking ... http://hwork.org/2009/08/19/hey-facebook-take-on-loopt-and-google-latitude-already/ Here is a Flickr set of a weekend Kate and I spent in Bend, Oregon celebrating @afischer and @shollen's wedding. http://hwork.org/2009/07/12/nutzs-wedding/ So my car nearly caught fire tonight, something with the starter refusing to turn itself off and messing up stuff internally. But this article is not about the drama (everything turned out ok). What amazed me though was the speed, response, and ultimately how smooth the towing went. ... http://hwork.org/2009/04/07/towing-companies-changing-with-the-times/ This is the kind of article that I love. Disney pledging aggressive (seemingly) targets for consuming less power across their fleet of theme parks. What's fascinating about this is that it's a giant optimization problem, and that environmental concerns are directly in line with operating costs. Use ... http://hwork.org/2009/03/09/disney-to-cut-emissions-by-half-in-four-years/ This has probably been done to death, but for the sake of Random Google Searches (RGSs), here is a quick run through about how to do reCAPTCHA with Rails. First off, you need to register at recaptcha.net. Then you need to add your domain and get two keys (one public, ... http://hwork.org/2009/03/08/recaptcha-on-rails/ Finally made the switch from Blogger to WordPress. All links are now redirected. The feed is now redirected (and hosted on feedburner). I've been working with WordPress for over a year now, and so I finally thought I should switch to it for myself. http://hwork.org/2009/03/06/the-long-huck-hworkorg/