gabriel mcgovern


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Hello World

Sometimes, I find myself feeling spread thin across the internet. There are the websites I maintain and the blogs that I publish content to. There are also the unintelligible comments I tend to leave scattered around.

So, consider this an attempt to gather all of the pieces. Perhaps it will help to paint a better picture of who I am.

My resume is available if you are interested - feel free to download a copy. However, I can guarantee that it will already be out of date by the time you read it. Contact me directly for more current information.

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Featured Post: Bad Apples (tastes like spiced ham)

0A few bad apples shouldn't be able to ruin it for everyone. However, on the internet, that is usually what happens... You set up a blog or mail form and everything goes great for a while. Then come the spammers. They want your attention and will do what ever it takes to get through. Some of it is obviously computer automated: Dear Sir / Madam. You want to save your money and get licensed medications? I bet you do! Others seem hand written: Hey Gabriel, Great blog. I really like your photos. Viagra Viagra Viagra. I am sure that every webmaster/blogger eventually goes through the sam...

Posted on 2008-01-03 | 1 comment(s)

@ work

Top 10 Worst Types of Blog Post (and one big example) (2)
2008-09-15: Rob Beschizza over at boingboing gadgets writes: Anyone who writes will eventually be guilty of writing something bad. Most do so only incidentally, as a result of error or ignorance. It's a sin o...
Pushing Silverlight
2008-08-11: Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to adobe flash. On many computers you will need to download the plugin in order to watch the olympics online. What strange, is that the plugin is an artificial re...
The joy of compression
2008-08-05: I gave a little talk at our monthly "All Developers Meeting" today. The topic was web optimization. Recently we setup http compression on our servers and I decided to take a look at how much bandwidth...
A List Apart - the survey
2008-07-29: A List Apart is currently conducting their yearly survey: The Survey, 2008 Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyon...
RSS autodiscovery on every page (of a static site)
2008-07-10: So you have some feeds and want browsers to be able to find them using autodiscovery. The problem Unfortunatly, you have static pages and would have to update each one to add the <link> tag. A...
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@ play

Salsa Verde
2008-09-21: Ripe tomatillos = salsa verde time! [gallery] Recipe: lots of tomatillos hot peppers onion garlic cilantro lime salt Husk and half tomatillos (also cut out stem connection). P...
Ultimate bike light
2008-09-21: As the days get shorter, I find myself riding in the dark more and more. Wanting to improve my visibility, I tracked down the components listed in the Daylight Visible Bike Light instructable. Howe...
My first fondant
2008-09-14: It was BK's birtyhday. I decided to try my hand at fondant (the stuff that makes wedding cakes look so perfect). [gallery]...
Berries
2008-09-08: The berries ae ripe. Blueberries are good, as are raspberries - but they both cost big $ (even in season). Blackberries on the other hand, only cost the time and effort to pick. We went out to the...
Beer
2008-09-07: My friend Jamie had all the equipment (plus hops growing in his yard). Each night a differsnt batch was made: Pale Ale Imperial Red Hopscotch Ale (double batch) Luke's Holiday beer [galle...
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There are total of 57 postings.