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here's a little db of 450ish homebrew recipes that i've collected. http://www.activebrew.com/
yesterday
iphone dev infuriates me. quirky shit. headin out to shovel for a bit.
yesterday
scanning docs is the only thing that requires me to boot into windows. i hate printing/scanning.
yesterday
Woop! Just found a ton of leftover tabouleh in the fridge. Sooo tasty.
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thinkin about working from home. half due to the weather, half due to the fact that i don't want to rebuild my dev env after that OS upgrade
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Photos

This is a sweet coozie. And that is a full beer.
WTF. The beer flag I bought to use as a bockfest cape is not even full flag size
2010 Des Moines Winter Games Broomball Champs
Rail jam on court ave
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Blog

IE6, The End is Near

About half of my readers are techie enough to share in this enthusiasm. If you're not in that group, just know that something awful is coming to an end. ...Like the end of of a war. The people - the big people, are killing all support of something horrendous. IE6.

Check out this wonderful email that I (and probably a lot of us) got.

Important Notice: Google Apps browser support

Dear Google Apps admin,​

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers o... (more)
1 week ago with 1 Comment Tags: Tech, Web

Albums

Mingo and Stix

A random night running around with Red... First, visiting German at Ozzy's, a stop at Stix, then back to my place for video gam...

Ankeny, Iowa, Mingo, Iowa
Added 1 week ago
33 Photos

NYE 2009

Bringing in the 2010 at the Union Bar with Diverse and friends.

Iowa City, Iowa
Added 1 month ago
84 Photos

Christmas 2009

Marion, Iowa, Argo, Iowa, Ankeny, Iowa
Added 1 month ago
73 Photos


Hi, I'm Derek Brooks

I'm a 28.53 year old midwestern American who enjoys programming, partying, traveling, and extremish sports.

My life's latest happenings are over there on the left. Here's what's going on today and here's what I did yesterday.

If you'd like to know a little more about me you can check out my bio - and don't forget to check out my photos!

Last seen in Ankeny

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jorge22f: do you want a #free #nexusone? just go to www.androidsfinest.com and find out how to under events

milksteakneggs: it just started.

dreaarzuaga: right now!

derek brooks: that is true, i do. i want to be a google phone guy, but the iphone ui is simply better. add in better apps and google's exchange support... it rules. plus the only android phone i have is a... (more)

peter cole: cliff is right...you have been known to cheat on your android.

lucky33: wtf, take that back dude

cliff wynne: shuddap u iphone hugger... :)

derek brooks: for sure. i'm glad that both of us got to beat those teams out. slumpbusters weren't near as dirty as efco was for our games. slumpbusters played rough, but they weren't taking full swings... (more)

jesse michael aldridge: typical

benjamin hall: :) that was a fun game especially after the efco & slumpbusters games.

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