Author Archives: Michael Koby

Learning the Ruby Programming Language

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Michael Koby

I’ve set out to learn a new programming language (for several reasons that will be disclosed at a later date), the language of choice was Ruby, so that eventually I could learn some Ruby on Rails for the purpose of getting back into web development. I have found a couple of nice ways to help with learning the Ruby programming language. Continue reading →

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FourSquare Wises Up, Now Useable

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Michael Koby

Since this change, FourSquare’s iPhone application has seen more use from me. It’s still not on my first iPhone screen (Gowalla’s not going away anytime soon), but it’s on my second and I have found the overall experience of FourSquare to be much more enjoyable then before. Gowalla still has a better overall user experience in my opinion, its more consistent. Continue reading →

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Beekin – All That's Left Behind

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Michael Koby

Today marks an important day for both a close personal friend of mine and myself.  The release of my friend’s band Beekin’s album entitled “All That’s Left Behind” is today.  Why you can probably see the immediate importance for my … Continue reading →

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Beekin – All That’s Left Behind

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Michael Koby

Today marks an important day for both a close personal friend of mine and myself.  The release of my friend’s band Beekin’s album entitled “All That’s Left Behind” is today.  Why you can probably see the immediate importance for my … Continue reading →

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Nine Inch Nails Continues to Prove They "Get it"

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Michael Koby

Yesterday I randomly found out about a NIN fan project entitled “The Gift” from the fan group This One is On Us/Another Version of the Truth. What this is, is a a full length concert video created from over 450 gigabytes (GB) of video footage shot from HD cameras by the NIN crew that was released by NIN.com to see what their fans would produce. The end result is a full length concert video containing 32 songs, 5.1 surround sound, and released in a variety of formats (including a single layer Blu-Ray). All variations are available via BitTorrent downloading for free. Just to be clear, the video is professionally shot, the completed Blu-Ray/DVD/video files are fan made from that video. Continue reading →

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Nine Inch Nails Continues to Prove They “Get it”

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Michael Koby

Yesterday I randomly found out about a NIN fan project entitled “The Gift” from the fan group This One is On Us/Another Version of the Truth. What this is, is a a full length concert video created from over 450 gigabytes (GB) of video footage shot from HD cameras by the NIN crew that was released by NIN.com to see what their fans would produce. The end result is a full length concert video containing 32 songs, 5.1 surround sound, and released in a variety of formats (including a single layer Blu-Ray). All variations are available via BitTorrent downloading for free. Just to be clear, the video is professionally shot, the completed Blu-Ray/DVD/video files are fan made from that video. Continue reading →

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