Chase Oliver Heramb is here!!!

Time: 4:54pm 11/5/2009
Weight: 9lbs 6oz
Height: 22.5"

Full head of dark hair and his mommy's nose.

Selected pictures of Chase Oliver are available on facebook at http://qr4.us/chase. All pictures taken, including many duplicates, are available on heramb.net at http://qr4.us/chase-all. More pictures will be posted on there as we take them. :)

Bing Twitter Beta

Bing has just announced a beta Bing search of the public Twitter stream. So far it looks pretty sweet. Two things in particular that I've noticed that make it nicer than the default Twitter search:

1.) When you search for an item, twitter shows you the results. But, when more tweets are posted that should show up in the results, you are only shown a notification "23 more items have been posted". However, with Bing's search, the items are update ajax-style "real-time".

2.) For a few of the major url shortening services, Bing actually displays the domain name of the destination url. I've noticed this for the default shortener bit.ly and tl.gd (Twit Longer). Doesn't appear to do this for tinyurl or the now defunct tr.im.

My big interest in this search engine is in the hopes that they will allow API calls that aren't limited like Twitter's rate-limited API.

If you use Twitter and ever find yourself searching for something, I definitely recommend giving Bing a try. http://qr4.us/bingtwit

To read more about the Twitter Search beta release visit http://qr4.us/bingtwitinfo


It appears that Microsoft will not be satisfied simply with Twitter's status updates, apparently they are leveraging their $240 million investment in Facebook to get the upper hand on showing status updates in Bing. Read more at http://qr4.us/bingfb

NFL Fantasy Files - these are great!

Personal "Biggest Gainer"

So everyone at my job is doing a "Biggest Loser" competition.  Instead of basing the competition on straight pounds,  they are using a simple Body Mass Index (BMI) calculator.  I wanted to participate, but if I lose any more weight, I'm afraid I may float away.  So instead,  I'll be doing a "Biggest Gainer" competition with myself to see how much good weight I can gain over the next 8 weeks.  I'll be posting my diet and exercise on here daily along with before and after pictures to keep myself motivated.

My target weight for the end of the 8-week period is 180 lbs.

Day 1 (8/4) weigh-in: 164 lbs 

Breakfast: banana, 2 pork chops
Lunch: banana w/ almond butter, 5 pork chops, peas, mac&cheese

QR Code

QR (or QuickResponse) codes are everywhere in Japan, but they're just now reaching the US in large quantities. If you're looking for the next big thing for marketing departments, I have a feeling that this is going to be one of the many tools of the future.

Visit Wikipedia's page on the subject for a quick overview of the technology.

I downloaded the i-Nigma barcode reader for my Sprint Mogul and have been pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install and use. Other readers you can try downloading are: QuickMark and Kaywa. Once you get a reader installed on your mobile phone, check out Kaywa's QR Code Generator!


Scan this code to add me to your address book.


Take a look at this code to send me a quick text message saying that you've read this page.

Jeff's Michigan Trip

Jeff just got back with pictures and videos from his week-long four-wheeling trip to Michigan.

Daniel Heramb's mohawk

Should I keep the "mohawk"?