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Alex Chousmith

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Upcoming in February : The Modlins at UCSD’s The Loft

If you haven't seen it yet, Showtime has a new show The United States of Tara on Sunday nights, about a mom (the mother from Little Miss Sunshine) who has whatever the correct psychological term is for split personalities, and is married to the guy from My Big Fat Greek Wedding. What that has to do with anything is that they attempt to relate the actual different personas to the fact that everyone everywhere has different aspects of who they…
February 4, 2009
Development

Cleaning Up The Archives: Sometimes It’s Ok To Hide The Past?

First, let me say, thank you Larry for the rad rug sweep picture! And yes, the Archive section, which groups posts by month, got quite long, as we've been blogging here at Ninthlink for over two years now. In the interest of opening up more real estate (virtual estate?), Craig suggested we put a dropdown that filters the archives by year, so I did. Or did I suggest that, and then Craig told me how to make it look more…
January 27, 2009
Development

My Takeaway from SANDcamp 09

I don't know what you did last weekend, or last summer, but I spent my weekend attending the first annual San Diego Drupal camp, also known as SANDcamp, if you are in to the whole brevity thing. Platt College donated the space, and the schedule was filled up by knowledgeable Drupal masters from San Diego's Achieve Internet, Acquia over on the east coast, Andy from SixFlip, and more. The schedule ran for both days, and there is even a first…
January 26, 2009
Marketing

Why I Love Monty Python

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNRkhJc2d_w News from around the internets is how Monty Python launched their own youtube channel, and proceeded to climb up the charts of the Amazon Best Seller list. Mashable.com claims somehow that the act resulted in "increased sales of 23,000 percent", though who knows where that number came from. (more…)
January 26, 2009
Marketing

Sunday Sunday Someday

Yes, this upcoming Sunday, February 1st, not only marks my sister's 23rd anniversary of existing, but also marks the third year of existance for San Diego's Beauty Bar. And while I'm not sure what my sister is doing to celebrate her bday (ok, thats not true, we are going to the Spaghetti Factory), I do know what the Beauty Bar is doing: throwing a free party, sponsored by Three Olives vodka, with performances by Darker My Love and Ninthlink faves…
January 26, 2009