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Being at Super Bowl 44: meeting Jennifer Lopez aka JLo

Being invited to the Super Bowl is at once exhilarating and guilt-provoking. For even mild sports enthusiasts the Super Bowl is one of those things you have on your life’s master to do list. Get Married. Buy A House. Have Children. Go To The Super Bowl. Check. Since I’m an avid football fan, for the months leading up it felt like a fantasy – I wasn’t really going and I kept dreaming that something bad would happen and plans would fall through. Like the tickets would get lost in the mail, or CBS would only send my friend Jonathan two tickets instead of three and he’d have to choose between his father and me. New scenarios popped up almost daily, keeping my unbridled excitement in check.

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Ordered some long overdue prints finally

I finally ordered some prints! It has been a few years of built up frustration over not making prints.

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jQuery Autocomplete + JSON + ASP.NET MVC + key value pair example

It took us a while to get this working properly – largely due to some pesky javascript errors but also because we wanted to return a key/value pair. We had a big head start, however, thanks to German Schuager’s article which employs the jQuery Autocomplete plugin and clearly explains how to consume JSON from ASP.NET [...]

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Adding Facebook Comments to a Lightroom HTML Gallery template

If you prefer displaying your photos on your own website using Lightroom’s web galleries over uploading your photos to Facebook then one of the drawbacks is the lack of commenting. Fortunately, there’s a way to add Facebook Comments to your own website and gallery. See an example here.

Step One: Enable Your Website To [...]

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Encourage Virtual Attendance: Lessons Learned From #140conf

The 140 Characters Conference last week in New York was an interesting case study in how to encourage virtual attendance at a conference. From an organizer’s perspective here are 5 things you could do to facilitate virtual attendance.