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	<title>Mike Laurence&#039;s Internet Playground &#187; Self-Evangelism</title>
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	<description>Mental Meanderings for the Masses</description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Making An App For That</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Laurence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how time flies when you&#8217;re a hermit cranking out code 10 hours a day, attempting to make something concrete but all the while watching your once rising Internet star (ha!) plummet like the Dow circa September &#8216;08. And now you&#8217;re just starting blog posts with vastly overused metaphors. Ah well.

But hey, I made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how time flies when you&#8217;re a hermit cranking out code 10 hours a day, attempting to make something concrete but all the while watching your once rising Internet star (ha!) plummet like the Dow circa September &#8216;08. And now you&#8217;re just starting blog posts with vastly overused metaphors. Ah well.
<br /><br />
But hey, I made an iPhone app! It&#8217;s called <a href="http://punkbot.com/ipose">iPose</a>, and it features, amongst other things, scantily-clad ladies.
<br /><br />
I&#8217;m also nearly done with my next app, <a href="http://punkbot.com/leap-quest">Leap Quest</a>! It is seventeen times more complex than iPose (*actual ratio of complexity more complex than 17 : 1), and is quite entertaining, if I may say so myself. It also has cutesy graphics that would be suitable for an 8-year-old (and no, I didn&#8217;t have to go door-to-door, Walter). 
<br /><br />
Based on my developmental progression, you might assume that my grand plan is to have 8-year-olds innocently obtain Leap Quest and then become interested in my brand, <a href="http://punkbot.com">Punkbot</a>, and then via the app store or my website accidentally stumble across aforementioned iPose scantily-cladness, thus prematurely exposing them to toxic American adult values earlier than they might have had they depended on discovering a hint of nipple through static on their friend&#8217;s satellite TV (wait, that was my generation. Today you can just google image search any two random words and visually feast on fetishes you&#8217;ve never even dreamed of!) But I don&#8217;t have grand plans. Only grandiose ones.
<br /><br />
You know what? I rather like ranting. I wrote some &#8220;rants&#8221; as a sort of online humor column back in college, before there were &#8220;blogs&#8221;, which makes me kind of cool and iconoclastic, except it was also before &#8220;anyone cared&#8221;, so I wasn&#8217;t able to capitalize on that coolness. I should really return to my ranting roots. Maybe I will.
<br /><br />
Anywho, I just thought you may have been wondering if there was An App For Cute Yellow Jumping Sun-Flower-Germ-Looking Dudes. There will be soon, so stay tuned. And check out this youtube trailer:
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		<title>Wordpress to the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://blog.mikelaurence.com/posts/2009/01/wordpress-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Laurence</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Self-Evangelism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I embarked on a mission &#8211; to code my own blog software so I could say that I coded my own blog software. My hubris got the best of me, though, revealed in a severe lack of friendly blog editing, which kept me from writing the fancy words that I know my internet [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last year, I embarked on a mission &#8211; to code my own blog software so I could say that I coded my own blog software. My hubris got the best of me, though, revealed in a severe lack of friendly blog editing, which kept me from writing the fancy words that I know my internet readers crave.

As a result, I decided to shake things up a bit and install wordpress. It’s &#8211; shudder &#8211; PHP, but sometimes ol’ Personal Home Page (yes, that’s its etymology!) fits in quite nicely, like when you don’t want to manage a burly Rails stack. Which is All The Time in my case. Don’t get me wrong &#8211; I frickin’ love Rails, but as a programmer I’m just not terribly interested in administering anything at all. I can dream about load balancing and memcached server side includes all night, but at the end of the day I’d rather hand the reigns over to someone else (preferably a guy who wears a <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/5d6a/?cpg=ab">localhost shirt</a>).

I hope this means my writing juices began to flow again. I believe it’s my duty to flood the internet with as much inanity and alliteration as humanly possible.]]></content:encoded>
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