Any Site Even WordPress on Google AppEngine. We Put Your Site in the Cloud

Any Site Even WordPress on Google AppEngine. We Put Your Site in the Cloud by Brandon Wirtz

I sat down to put my depth of Python experience in to learning Google App Engine this weekend.  And my first app http://drakaalfirst.appspot.com/ is an accelerator for my XYHD.tv Blog.  Rather than porting WordPress to run on Google, I instead built a proxy designed to take the load off of the installation. 
This does several [...]

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Everyone who has linked to my Root Page, Thanks

by Brandon Wirtz

Akimbo, Dot Gone
http://gigaom.com/2008/05/23/akimbo-dot-gone/

Playing Xbox Live over Google WiFi While Driving
http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20070219_playing_xbox_live_over_google_wifi_while_driving.html

30Boxes team launches Facebook Ad Exchange
http://gigaom.com/2007/07/10/fbexchange/

Galan Bridgman Home Page
http://www.bridgman.com/

MakeMeANinja.com Sneak Past Blockers the Ninja Way, Visit Facebook …
http://makemeaninja.com/

nick.com/oneowin Zoey One-O-Win Sweepstakes!
http://www.teenswin.com/

Can I use a USB Wireless Adapter with my Xbox 360?
http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20080103_can_i_use_a_usb_wireless_adapter_with_my_xbox_360.html

The Technology Chronicles : The greatest Googled American
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=16363

Sweet Nez
http://www.sweetnez.com/

Mac Nano In Late October? : MyMac.cc
http://www.mymac.cc/?p=538

Default Index
http://www.actionnewslive.com/

Taking [...]

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Where’s the Beef, the Beef is Back

by Brandon Wirtz

Those of you who actually attempt to follow my blog will be pleased to hear that XYHD.tv will be publishing only articles I put effort in to, XYHD.tv/gbait will have all of the Trendy posts that have clogged your RSS reader for so long.
You may get more dating posts than what you are interested in [...]

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This is a Test Post

by Brandon Wirtz

I just needed a post to test a plugin, sorry for the inconvenience.
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AddThis [...]

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XYHD.tv/store Launches Get the Best Deals On Cool Stuff

by Brandon Wirtz

www.XYHD.tv/store is now open.  You can get all your favorite merchandise on the cheap.  I need to tweak the look, as it is a bit ugly at the moment, but just think of it like shopping at Costco, or Sam’s Club, the lack of decor keeps the prices down.
The XYHD.tv store has all of the [...]

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What do you do with (or with out) a BA in English

by Brandon Wirtz

What do you do with (or with out) a BA in English? What is your Life Going to be?
If you can't pay your bills yet, but you have a writing skill set, Blogging could be your new space.
You could write for a rev Share, Make money to spare.
It doesn't have to [...]

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Get a Cheap Deal, Buy It At The Best Price, Digerat.com/Store

by Brandon Wirtz

I'm announcing a project I put together in a few hours, that will get some revisions in the near future, but is a good first start. The Digerat.com everything you could ever want to buy store. Yes right now it is just powered by Amazon, but I'm working on some ways to make it a [...]

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ZillionTV Digital and Online Marketing Manager Position

by Brandon Wirtz

Position: Digital/Online Marketing Manager
ZillionTV Corporation (www.zilliontv.tv), headquartered in Santa Clara, is developing a next-generation consumer television service which will change TV as you know it. 
We are currently seeking experienced talent to be a part of our rapidly growing team. We have an immediate need for a Manager of Digital/Online Marketing, reporting directly to the [...]

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ZillionTV PR Manager Position

by Brandon Wirtz

If you hadn't noticed I'm consumed with ZillionTV stuff at the moment, and many of you still aren't flooding me with resumes! So get your stuff sent, there are more positions that what I'm even showing but here is another one.
Position: PR Manager
ZillionTV Corporation (www.zilliontv.tv), headquartered in Santa Clara, is developing a next-generation consumer television [...]

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Full RSS Now Available

by Brandon Wirtz

I'm now offering Full RSS.  Yeah, I'm very big on the you have to be careful if you do Full RSS cause your entire post will end up on a splog, and I believe that, but I have set up some things to enforce my claim on my content, so I'm willing to give it [...]

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New Look

by Brandon Wirtz

I tweaked the look of the site, and I think it is the best to date.  It also should load faster, and I like the background.
This version also uses less PNG's which were causing problems for some people with really old browsers. 
I also updated and reinserted my "thanks for linking to me" code that [...]

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Added 200+ Short Biographies to Digerat.com

by Brandon Wirtz

I got asked what kind of things I'm doing…  So this is a just a taste of what I do with my days these days….
You can find my "day to day" at www.digerat.com/blog from now on, but he is what I worked on the last two days.   This is the first for 15k to come [...]

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Digerat: Lighting up an Old Domain

by Brandon Wirtz

Digerat.com is being put back online.  This was my domain nearly 8 years ago.  I covered such exciting things as an exclusive interview with Scott Miller the Creator of "The Kingdom of Kroz".
Well it is being brought back as a Human/computer powered Research Engine.  My other domain was defective but I liked the name better, [...]

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Brandon Wirtz is the Greatest Living American 1 Year Later

by Brandon Wirtz

PR Web and CNN have sent the search term Greatest Living American to the top of the trends list, once again.  As Colbert was just made Webby Person of the year and the press release claimed him to be Greatest Living American.   Well not so fast my Bear Hating Foe!  I earned that title Fair [...]

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ISayHello.com Launched! A truly Hybrid Search / Research Engine

by Brandon Wirtz

www.isayhello.com went live last night.  The front page is ugly, I don't have as many human edited pages as I would like, but it is day one, and this is the first step.  In the coming days you will start to see better and better results pages, and more "Category" templates.
Not all results will be [...]

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TvBobCat.com It's All Lynx

by Brandon Wirtz

I am launching my Site Reviews Site, a further attempt to clean up my Site so that it is less cluttered.  www.TVBobCat.com  features reviews of sites seen on TV, in the news and just in general.

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XYHD.tv Proudly Announces Celebrity Gossip Site Yentering.com

by Brandon Wirtz

In an effort to get my website a little less Schizophrenic I am launching several new web sites.  The first of which is Yentering.com which will get all of the celebrity gossip that I know most of you never want to read any way.
But if you do, Head on over.

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Rentablogger.com Outsourcing Trendy Posts to India

by Brandon Wirtz

I did a brief experiment where I outsourced the writing of posts to India through a service called Rentablogger.com.  For $5 a post a woman in India would write posts about the topics I gave her.
Using my Google Trend Tool to discover trends that were probable to rank well for I put her to work.
The [...]

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Facebook Censors Firearms Training Ad, XYHD and MakeMeANinja.com Uncensor it

Facebook Censors Firearms Training Ad, XYHD and MakeMeANinja.com Uncensor it by Brandon Wirtz

When I heard that Facebook.com had rejected an ad from FrontSight.com arguably the best Firearms Training course in the US, I contacted Ignatius Piazza, Front Sight's Founder, and offered to run his ad on MakeMeANinja.com for free.
I think people have the right to carry weapons, and if they are going to exercise that right then [...]

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MakeMeANinja.com Soft Launch! MySpace Proxy and Anonymous Surfing

by Brandon Wirtz

www.xyhd.tv/proxy Has the beta of my new MakeMeANinja.com Proxy.
 
If you are trying to avoid the firewall at your school, or work or the CyberNanny that your mom put on, this is a great way to do it.  Free, works with most sites and faster than any of the alternatives out there. 
We'll move it to [...]

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New Server For XYHD.tv Means Faster pages for you

by Brandon Wirtz

I hope you like the new theme and the faster server.  I just went from $20 a month to $300 a month in hosting.  But I got about 12x the horsepower that I had.  The GBait site isn't back up yet and there are a few links I still have to resolve but for the [...]

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Carbon Ninja Launches the Sale of Personal Carbon Offsets

Carbon Ninja Launches the Sale of Personal Carbon Offsets by Brandon Wirtz

You can make a difference in the fight against global warming. By sponsoring tree growth you can help offset your carbon footprint, and make a real difference. Unlike other services that invest in future technologies that may or may not make a difference, or services that plant a coniferous sapling and hope that it grows [...]

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Carbon Ninja's First Carbon Reclamation Arboretum

Carbon Ninja's First Carbon Reclamation Arboretum by Brandon Wirtz

Carbon Ninja is proud to announce its first arboretum.  Carbon Ninja has negotiated the use of 1.2 million square feet of currently unused land which will be used to reclaim carbon from the air.  Hardwood trees will be planted in this managed arboretum.  Located near existing woods this space will be an extension of the [...]

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My Blog is supposedly worth $136,618, But I'll settle for half of that.

by Brandon Wirtz

Dane Carlson has a calculator on his site that tells you your blogs worth.  Mine is worth about $136k.  But I'd take half of that.
To say that the value of my blog is worth $136k, and Jake's is worth $182k is absurd since Jake is making that a year on his site and I'd take [...]

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Working out why I can't cross post video

by Brandon Wirtz

First teaser for the new movie from Roland Emmerich (The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, Godzilla), the guy who surely inspired the people behind the marketing campaign of 11-1-08.A prehistoric epic that follows a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric [...]

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Closer

by Brandon Wirtz

This is a test post for some Crossposting I am building.
You can see if these are working if you check my myspace blog

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Test post again

by Brandon Wirtz

This is a test post for some Crossposting I am building.
You can see if these are working if you check my myspace blog

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Retry Test Post

by Brandon Wirtz

This is a retry of my test post for some Crossposting I am

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I think I have my CrossPosting working

by Brandon Wirtz

If I did this right it is on myspace, Xanga, and Face Book.

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Doing Beta Testing with my own live site…

by Brandon Wirtz

This is a test post for some Crossposting I am building.

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XYHD.tv Goes Multi-lingual

by Brandon Wirtz

You might have noticed the Flags at the top of the page? They translate Xyhd to 10 different Languages!

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Shelving my YahooPipes Experiment to Build a Competing Technology

by Brandon Wirtz

I may let it run while I'm away for the week, but the problem with my YahooPipes is that when someone updates their RSS feed with the same story in a new version My Site gets a double post.  If you are using RSS and a JavaScript viewer, or just looking at it in certain [...]

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Get a Mini, Eat a Boxster for Breakfast, and a Prius too just for good measure

Get a Mini, Eat a Boxster for Breakfast, and a Prius too just for good measure by Brandon Wirtz

I have a new love in my life.  She doesn't have a name, yet, but she will.  and I'll pinstripe it on with loving care, right above her rear bumper on the passenger side.  Yes, my new love is a car.  A 2007 Mini Cooper S Hatchback. This is the perfect balance between fun to [...]

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Recognized in my Home Town Rag

Recognized in my Home Town Rag by Brandon Wirtz

Most of my readers don't know what a newspaper is, but if you recall in the days before the Internet you could by articles printed on paper.  Luckily you can get those same articles on the Internet, and here is one such example.  Featuring me.  The Greatest Living American, Greatest Undead American and generally swell [...]

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Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American

by Brandon Wirtz

Comparing the candidates for Greatest Living American: A completely biased look at Brandon Wirtz and Stephen Colbert.
Stance on Bears:
Stephen Colbert has announced on multiple occasions that he is a Hater of Bears, all Bears, but especially Polar Bears.
Brandon loves bears, and as a Native of Michigan, and Resident of [...]

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XYHD on MTV

by Brandon Wirtz

What do Tom Greene, Ryan Seacrest, Jenny Mc Carthy, Jake Ludington, and Brandon Wirtz all have in common? We were all on MTV without having to sing.
MTV Obsessed

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Playing with a new theme

by Brandon Wirtz

I'm playing with a new theme… Trying to make the site better accommodate Wide content, and improve Readability.  Also trying to incorporate our new Logo.

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20 Questions to prove you are a Wizard of Video Compression Contest:

by Brandon Wirtz

20 Questions to prove you are a Wizard of Video Compression Contest:
I am giving away a copy of VISTA: Ultimate to the person who can get the most answers right to the following questions.   In the event of a Tie the person with the most complete answer to each question will win.  Contest ends 5pm [...]

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Featured in the Mountain View Voice

by Brandon Wirtz

I'm sure you are all tired of hearing about all the places you can read about us…  but we made the jump to Pressed Paper, and that is a bit of something.  Check out this weeks Mountain View Voice.

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Post Oscar Party Update….

Post Oscar Party Update…. by Brandon Wirtz

Jake and I attended the Night of 100 Stars Oscar Viewing party.  Jake got his picture taken with the Beautiful Marcia Cross.  I was seen escorting the Lovely Alicia Arden on the red carpet.  Hopefully I'll get some photos of that.  Alicia has the Samsung SC-X205L which she carried for doing things like Interviewing John Voight about [...]

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XYHD Goes to the Oscars Viewing Party at the Beverly Hills Hotel

by Brandon Wirtz

We are going to Hollywood to watch the Oscars (79th Annual Academy Awards ) with the attendees of the Night of 100 Stars! You will be able to watch the live stream from the XYHD.TV website.  Watch our lovely new hostess walk the red carpet, and catch all the celeb's as well.  It is THE Oscar Party [...]

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XYHD's Snazzy Web 2.0 Theme

by Brandon Wirtz

It is probably not all the way done, these things never are, but this is much closer to the vision I had for the site.  I still could use a good logo, and there are some bits that need some color fixes for readability.  I'm not entirely happy with ad placement, but all in all.  [...]

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My Sister's DVD Site

by Brandon Wirtz

Megan is working on DVDinMyPants.com so we will probably be setting up some sort of relationship between the two sites.  I was hoping to get her to do HD-DVD reviews but she is a Blu-Ray Fan.  (traitor) 
In any event check out her site.  As Soon as I get my Feedburner working right I'll excerpt her [...]

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I bought 6 copies of Vista Ultimate and 3 of Office 2007

I bought 6 copies of Vista Ultimate and 3 of Office 2007 by bwirtz

What do I plan to do with all of those copies?  Upgrade.  My roommate needs a copy she has been running the beta, and my bedroom Media Center is getting the cool Vista UI.  Which for Media Center is Amazing!

I have a 4 gig SD card that I use for ReadyBoost.

Emily is most excited about [...]

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Technorati Claim

by bwirtz

Adding the site to Technorati, Check my profile here.

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Microsoft didn't mislead on Xbox 360 IPTV

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Derek Flickinger of CEPro Quotes me in an article titled "Microsoft Misleads on Xbox 360 IPTV".   But we didn't.   We very clearly stated in the keynote that we were deploying IPTV with a long list of partners.  No one thought it deceptive of us when we announced cable card support for MCE that it meant [...]

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Hired a beautiful hostess

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I hired a beautiful young hostess for our video content.   I will unveil her shortly, but the big news is that I am moving forward on the video portion of the site.   Look for the first video in the next two weeks.  We got side tracked this weekend working on some other things which we [...]

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Test Post as Site Comes Online

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This is the first post to the site.  You can look forward to great content in the days to follow.  I am very excited to have a site that really lends to the types of articles that I haven't had a place to post in the past.  VC1HD.com will continue to operate, but it is not [...]

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