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	<title>CharlesGallant.com</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Some Old Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>coherence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thought I&#8217;d post some ancient work from the archives, as there is no easy way to get to it these days.  One of these days I&#8217;ll get around to updating my portfolio, but until then, here&#8217;s what college was like for me:
Old drawings &#038; illustrations:
- flower
  - guitar decal design
- octopus
- bridge
- fish
Old Actionscript 1.0 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thought I&#8217;d post some ancient work from the archives, as there is no easy way to get to it these days.  One of these days I&#8217;ll get around to updating my portfolio, but until then, here&#8217;s what college was like for me:</p>
<p>Old drawings &#038; illustrations:<br />
- <a title="charles gallant: flower" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/flowerSk.jpg">flower<br />
</a>  - <a title="charles gallant: guitar design" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/treeSk.jpg">guitar decal design</a><br />
- <a title="charles gallant: octopus" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/octo.jpg">octopus</a><br />
- <a title="charles gallant: bridge" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/bridge.jpg">bridge</a><br />
- <a title="charles gallant: fish" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/fish.jpg">fish</a></p>
<p>Old Actionscript 1.0 stuff:<br />
- <a title="charles gallant: flash exercise" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/exercise_01.html">coordinate system exercise<br />
</a>  - <a title="charles gallant: flash exercise" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/exercise_01.html" /><a title="charles gallant: flash exercise" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/exercise_02.html">very weird interface idea</a><br />
- <a title="charles gallant: flash game" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/exercise_03.html">my first flash game ever</a><br />
- <a title="charles gallant: flash project 1" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/project_01.html">coordinate system project<br />
</a>  - <a title="charles gallant: flash project 1" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/project_01.html" /><a title="charles gallant: project 2" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/project_02.html">yet another coordinate system exploration</a></p>
<p>Old Animation Project<br />
- <a title="charles gallant: scientist animation" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/cg_sci_big.html">The Scientist</a>
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		<title>Fall 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesgallant.com/2008/10/15/fall-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>coherence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Might as well start titling the posts after the seasons they represent, eh?
Things are going swimmingly.  These days, I&#8217;m&#8230;
Working at POKE.
Living in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn.
Listening to this playlist on shuffle while I work.
Experimenting with Firefox + Ubiquity + Seeqpod.
Hacking my guitar and resurrecting an old project with Max/msp/jitter.
Compiling a history of my activity via photos, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Might as well start titling the posts after the seasons they represent, eh?</p>
<p>Things are going swimmingly.  These days, I&#8217;m&#8230;<br />
Working at <a title="Poke" href="http://pokenewyork.com">POKE</a>.<br />
Living in <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&#038;ll=40.715159,-73.958309&#038;spn=0.014768,0.025814&#038;z=16">Williamsburg, in Brooklyn</a>.<br />
Listening to <a title="my seeqpod playlist" href="http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?plid=10f9c4ee81">this playlist</a> on shuffle while I work.<br />
Experimenting with <a title="SP: Ubiquity command" href="http://playground.pokenewyork.com/poke/ubiquity/seeq/">Firefox + Ubiquity + Seeqpod</a>.<br />
<a title="Stratocaster + Graph Tech" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesgallant/sets/72157607146576994/">Hacking my guitar</a> and resurrecting an <a title="Guitar + Midi Project" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/port/_media/pages/max_describe.html">old project</a> with <a title="Cycling 74" href="http://www.cycling74.com/products/max5">Max/msp/jitter</a>.<br />
Compiling a history of my activity via <a title="Charles Gallant on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesgallant/">photos</a>, <a title="Charles Gallant on Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/charlesgallant">tweets</a>, and <a title="Charles Gallant on Google Reader" href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/11697562346517379651">Google Reader Shares</a>.<br />
Thinking about robots, all the time.</p>
<p>Constantly pruning and learning from my online presence, and experimenting with it as a new means of communication.
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		<title>Summer is ending</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesgallant.com/2008/07/30/summer-is-ending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>coherence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a quick July.  I&#8217;ve made some changes.
I&#8217;m using Twitter all the time now, and I&#8217;m enjoying it.  It&#8217;s tough to explain, but contrary to it&#8217;s apparent lack of purpose, it&#8217;s quite valuable.  The question most people struggle with is &#8220;why would I want to post about myself.&#8221;  If you&#8217;re asking that, you need [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a quick July.  I&#8217;ve made some changes.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m using <a title="Twitter" href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> all the time now, and I&#8217;m enjoying it.  It&#8217;s tough to explain, but contrary to it&#8217;s apparent lack of purpose, it&#8217;s quite valuable.  The question most people struggle with is &#8220;why would I want to post about myself.&#8221;  If you&#8217;re asking that, you need to stop thinking about yourself.  It&#8217;s less about you, and more about everyone, all at once.  It&#8217;s a customized conversation that you can hand curate to be just what you want.  People around you are talking, and they want to engage with you.  It&#8217;s as simple as that.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve added all my shared stories from Google Reader above.  If you&#8217;re not using Google Reader yet, and you don&#8217;t read RSS feeds, you should!  <a title="Getting started with RSS" href="http://www.charlesgallant.com/2007/04/02/get-started-with-rss/">Here&#8217;s a write up I did last year on how to get started</a>.<br />
Also, there&#8217;s no more big flash header on the site.  Yep, killed it.  Something else will be up there, but for now, straight HTML purity.</p>
<p>Finally, I&#8217;ve recently launched a little experiment called <a title="Quick! Play a song!" href="http://quickplayasong.com">quickplayasong.com</a>.  I made it for a number of reasons.  First, I wanted to design something for the iPhone.  Second, I wanted to learn jQuery.  Third, I wanted to build a useful <a title="Kottke - single serving sites" href="http://kottke.org/08/02/single-serving-sites">single serving site</a>.  And finally (and most importantly), I wanted to make something that could help musicians.  I learned much of what I <a title="Phish loops" href="http://emilstabs.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Loop">know</a> <a title="Herring" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xuje9TzRhM">about</a> <a title="Guitar House" href="http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/guitar/index_rb.html">guitar</a> <a title="Vic Wooten" href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vic+wooten&#038;search_type=">on</a> <a title="slang" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdY-KAmj5fU">the</a> <a title="Guitar Scales" href="http://images.google.com/images?q=guitar%20scales">internet</a>, and I owe it something in return.  Hopefully, this helps in one form or another.  <a title="Quick, play a song" href="http://quickplayasong.com">Check it out</a>!
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		<title>I actually made an update</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesgallant.com/2008/04/19/i-actually-made-an-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>coherence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and a little re-design, too.  It&#8217;s about time.  I&#8217;ve decided that with the turn of the seasons, I should give this site a spin around the block.  On my list of things to change are:
- The number of feeds this site collects / displays
- The way that this site handles feedback / comments
- The way [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;and a little re-design, too.  It&#8217;s about time.  I&#8217;ve decided that with the turn of the seasons, I should give this site a spin around the block.  On my list of things to change are:</p>
<p>- The number of feeds this site collects / displays<br />
- The way that this site handles feedback / comments<br />
- The way the flash header looks / feels<br />
- The css that mobile users are served<br />
- The frequency and manner in which I write posts</p>
<p>I&#8217;d really like to start recording things more efficiently.  I&#8217;ll want to look back on this in a few years and see something that I can learn from.  After all, soon everything will connect to everything.  The walled gardens of data will fall, and every digital device will exchange information through standardized data formats.  The analysis of those complicated and overlapping trends will be amazing tools for learning about ourselves.  Imagine an efficient / meaningful / insightful way to look at the last 5 years.  How bout any number of years.  What&#8217;s important to me now is leaving a meaningful and robust set of information to gather.  By the time we can really use it, I&#8217;ll probably wish I wrote more.<br />
One of my greatest fears is unknowingly repeating the same mistakes every day, because I don&#8217;t have enough perspective to see and correct myself.  Having a blog seems like a great way towards getting the type of insights I&#8217;m looking for.  Maybe it&#8217;ll change the way I see time passing.
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		<title>Note to Self:</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesgallant.com/2008/01/29/note-to-self/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
		
	<category>coherence</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update my blog.  For pictures, go here.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Update my blog.  For pictures, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesgallant">go here</a>.
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