A Louisiana artist, Linda Rambin has been painting for approximately six years. Unfortunately, her painting career has been postponed indefinitely due to the extremely aggressive form of brain cancer she is currently fighting, glioblastoma multiforme. Diagnosed in early October 2008, Linda has had brain surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, and she is currently participating in a clinical trial that is causing her a great deal of fatigue and a host of other side effects.
The cost of Linda’s treatment and care are exorbitant. Just one of the medications for the clinical trial costs $4,500 per month, and that’s the co-pay! You can help support Linda and the Rambin family by spreading the word about Paintings by Linda, a collection of Linda’s original paintings on Etsy.com. The more people that visit Paintings by Linda, the more of her paintings will sell, helping the family to defray the cost of her treatment. (If you’re sharing about Linda’s store on Twitter, please use the hashtag #charlysmom. Linda’s daughter Charly has worked tirelessly on both Linda’s Etsy store and Linda’s Caring Bridge website.)
If you are interested in learning more about her story, please visit Linda’s Caring Bridge website. There you will find a more detailed account of her struggle, a daily blog, a guestbook for comments, and a photos page.
Please keep Linda in your thoughts as you enjoy her unique and vivid paintings. They have brought her much joy, and we hope they will do the same for you.
Get out and vote! Follow the election results right here, with this nifty Google gadget.
Via Top 5 election day mashups at MAKE
From my work machine:
jkendall@ventura:~$ uname -a
Linux ventura 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
jkendall@ventura:~$ history | awk '{a[$2]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | sort -rn | head
83 exit
70 clear
58 cd
47 ls
44 ps
35 svn
32 tail
32 jgrep
23 kill
11 sshdevjgrep is a bash alias for 'grep --color -r -n --exclude=\*.svn\*', while sshdev is a bash alias that gets me to the dev box at work without having to type too much.
See more examples here, here, here, and here.
I’m proud to announce the launch of 400mToGo, a blog about all things Nike+, including tips, news, tutorials, reviews, and the personal experiences of three “very amateur but passionate runners.”
The brainchild of Scott Wills, the 400mToGo team includes Scott, Cory Wiles, and myself. We love to run, we’re passionate about the Nike+ sport kit, and we decided that we wanted to give back to and participate in the growing Nike+ community in a more meaningful way.
From the 400mToGo About page:
400mToGo is a Web site for Nike+® runners of all abilities. If, like us, you are obsessed with running data and refuse to go running unless you have your Apple® iPod® Nano and your Nike+ chip securely attached, then this is the Web site for you.
Current stories include a review of the Couch to 5k running plan, a piece about Scott’s excellent experiences with Nike’s customer support, and a bit of good advice for every runner by Cory.
Are you ready to get running? Visit 400mToGo today.
Thanks for visiting the personal site of Jeremy Kendall, web developer and entrepreneur. I hate sites that are “Under Construction” and have always felt that you should build content and flesh out your project in a development environment before going live. Yeah, well, I guess this makes me both the cobbler and the cobbler’s shoeless kid.
I’m a PHP / MySQL developer primarily. I’m working on my Java chops as we speak. My day job is a junior development position, I’m working on building a freelance development business into a second, viable stream of income, and I’m an Original Limu distributor as well. Find out more about Original Limu here.
2008 got here well before I was ready for it, and the new year finds me as busy as I’ve ever been with multiple new projects. What you’re seeing is a new CMS running on the home page, and me with no time to dig in and learn it. This is going to be a fun project, but as it’s a personal project, it will be catch as catch can until I get a few hours to spend reading some Drupal for n00bs stuff.
In the meantime I have some exciting Zend Framework projects in the works with a couple more on the way. I’m working on my first Java project at the day job, which is exciting but leaves my brain a pile of mush by the end of the work day. As soon as I deliver those projects there will be more time for my personal projects. I think this is what they call “job security.”
