Technology

There’s a new addition to the blog today. It’s called madKast. You’ll notice the little green icon next to the title of every post.

madKast is one of the many great ideas coming out of Boulder this summer. The team is part of a program called TechStars, a really cool program to help startups get their ideas off the ground.

Installing madKast was a snap, just paste their code somewhere before the </head> tag in your blog template and madKast does the rest. The service is currently in beta right now, so I expect some minor improvements before their official launch, but even in its current form, it seems like an awesome blog-sharing tool.

Great. Another post about the iPhone. Don’t worry, this isn’t my ranting (dis)approval of Apple’s new device, but rather a sad realization after my first encounter with one last evening.

Since the dawn of time, or so it seems, web developers have been required to be well versed in both programming, and juggling. Now I don’t think that many developers would have a very good chance at making a living as street performers, but we are cursed blessed with the obligation to make our sites display properly on different browsers. While we can all rejoice in the fact that IE 5 on the Mac OS has become an increasingly smaller headache, Apple just threw us another curveball.

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