Jarrod Trainque

January 30, 2005

Cell phone providers messing with our technology

Ugh. Stuff like this turns my stomach.
We’ve got a great site like Flickr that makes it easy to post mobile phone photos to your blog, but of course cell phone providers have to go and mess it up.

A9 visual yellow pages

People are talking about A9, Amazon’s photo based Yellow pages.
It works like this: You enter an address or the name of a store, and it returns a photograph of that store. Try it, it works.
I’ve even heard that from some people that it will occasionally return a pictures of their house at […]

My horoscope

In recognition of my birthday yesterday, Erik at coacalina posted my horoscope (Aquarius).
I’ve never thought much of astrology as anything more than entertainment for bored housewives, but this one is uncanny in its dead-on accuracy. (I think. I might be biased).

new music track

Yeah, so I was playing around with the mpc2000xl, and made a new track loosely based on a guitar riff by Creedence.
Download it here: http://www.trainque.com/music

January 29, 2005

reverse type on corporate websites

I’ve been reading more and more about website usability guidelines lately, and came across this article concerning the debate over reverse type.
“Reverse type” refers to white text on a black (or dark) background. Anyone who has taken an introduction to advertising design class knows that reverse type is generally frowned on by old-school designers […]

January 26, 2005

Adam running in Marathon, raising money for cancer research

For the second year in a row my brother Adam will be running the Boston Marathon to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer institute. He writes:
Last year my initial goal was to raise $1000.00 in six weeks. With many donations, and your selfless charity I reached that goal in a mere 5 days. As […]

Amazing Flickr coincidence

Get this: Some guy travels 5000+ miles to Japan. While there, he takes a photograph of woman taking a photo. Within six weeks, the woman finds the photo of herself.
This, my friends, is why Flickr rules.

The end of the Weekly Dig

Last night I attended the the Weekly Dig relaunch party, an invitation-only party.
For those that don’t know, the Weekly Dig was Boston’s last holdout for a worthwhile, consistent independent small newspaper. Marketed as the “best little paper in Boston,” it contained music reviews, events listings, arts/culture, etc. It’s style was raw, a little immature, […]

January 23, 2005

“Fitness Celebrity” John Basedow possible victim of Tsunami?

This internet press release has been circulating:
PRWEB) January 2, 2005 — Fitness celebrity and television personality, John Basedow has been missing in Phuket, Thailand since the deadly Tsunami devastated the area where he was vacationing on Sunday, December 26th, 2004. Best know for his fitness video commercials, John Basedow has long been a part […]

Blizzard strikes boston

Depending on who you ask, it looks like we got between 24 and 30 inches of snow last night in Boston. I took some pictures.
Before the storm:

During the storm:

After the storm:

And here are some buried cars:



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