Mike Vogel

photos, videos and sometimes witty captions

Thursday, March 30, 2006

White Russian...

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White Russian...

...For a white Russian who is leaving my work.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Thanks for the math

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Thanks for the math

No pricebreak at 5?

Monday, March 27, 2006

Disneyland

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Disneyland

dumbo

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dumbo

Sunday, March 26, 2006

So Cal Beach

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So Cal Beach

Getting my feet wet near San Diego.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

101 at 4:45 AM

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101 at 4:45 AM

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Goat


Goat

I saw a goat (not this goat) get his head caught in a fence. He poked his head and horns through to eat some food pellets and when he tried to pull it back, his horns got caught in the wire. I tried to help, but he thought I was trying to feed him and stuck his head further through the fence. Eventually, some devil worshippers came by and sacrificed him (okay, that part is untrue but makes for a better ending).

Friday, March 17, 2006

St. Patricks Day


St. Patricks Day

Cheers.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Video store


Video store

I spent a good deal of my early 20's reading the backs of VHS tapes in video stores. Now I have a netflix queue so going into a video is almost nostalgic. How much longer until these are a thing of the past?

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Door knobs


Door knobs

I spent most of Sunday replacing hardware on 11 doors. On my last door I realized I didn't need to take the doors off their hinges.

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Video Mash-Up: Blind Date

Since mash-ups are getting hot these days, I decided to post the short film I made using Grand Theft Auto and a text-to-speech engine. You don't need to know anything about the game to enjoy the story.

No humans were harmed in the making of this movie...

Watch it on...

Google video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-394858343860132192

YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxaKpU1Uas

IFILM
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2707487

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Vegan granola bar


Vegan granola bar

This is a vegan granola bar and the change from two dollars. I eat two or three of these a week. I'm eating this one as I type.

Monday, March 06, 2006

Office view


Office view

This is the view from my office as I get ready to leave.

This is where I work


This is what I look at every Monday morning.

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Saturday, March 04, 2006

A Brand New MIKEVOGEL.COM!

I've been maintaining mikevogel.com for about six years and I've learned more about web coding than I ever really wanted to.

I started off with a Flash and RealVideo site in 1999, then realized it was going to be impossible to maintain it with fresh content-- and there's no reason to come back to a site that only gets updated every three months.

I moved to the "syndicated column" style in 2000, well before "blogs" hit the mainstream. But it quickly became apparent that using static HTML pages was not going to be the best way to frequently update a site.

To solve this update problem, I had to learn a little PHP and mySQL. It gave me a lot of flexibility, but I never found an easy way to get content to my site. I could submit text from my phone, but not images--that required transferring the file to my computer and FTPing it. I just wanted to use the things I did all the time--email, text messages, phone calls--to update my site.

I finally realized that everything I wanted to do was freely available from Blogger and Flickr--this isn't a plug for either company, but I'm using their stuff and it's free (the domain and hosting is currently GoDaddy and is almost free).

Today represents a new era for mikevogel.com. I'm out of the web coding business and back into the meaningless content business.

See pictures from the old mikevogel.com on Flickr

And for those of you that care, eventually I will post all those old mikevogel.com editions so you can see just how much I was ripping off Dave Barry.