I made an API for symbol shortcuts

I was getting tired of googling it everytime I needed to know a shortcut to make a ™ or a ∞. So I turned it into an API via Kimonify. It took some work, because it wouldn't let me combine the columns very well form this source page: http://fsymbols.com/keyboard/mac/ I ended up making two difference collections …

Cactus: A better smart power strip

Three weeks ago, I started on a project with three other Providence entrepreneurs. Our goal is to raise $10,000 dollars through the crowd funding site RocketHub, and create an awesome smart power strip: Cactus. It came together very fast, and it had to. We didn't start planning this campaign until a week before the launch -- which …

Introducing CompareMySolar

Check out a great new website I've started: mo.comparemysolar.com It's called CompareMySolar, where we make it easy to find the right solar installer and panels for you. We just launched in Missouri a couple months ago and we’ve already got ten installers throughout the state who have chosen to work with us. That’s great news …

MU Students Hold ‘Die-in’ for Asthma Awareness Day

Concerned students gathered at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, on MU’s campus to demonstrate their support for asthma sufferers nationwide by coughing and “dying” in a cluster on the pedestrian pathway of Lowry Mall. The students linked asthma problems to local causes such as the coal-fired power plants on MU’s campus and in the city of Columbia. …

Power Shift Wrap-up

I was marching down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol yelling things like, “Hey hey, ho ho, dirty coal has got to go,” with thousands of students like me. And I never do those things. I am truly not the rowdy protesting kind of person, but Power Shift has this ability to awaken your passion and …

Wind Power Solutions

That's Mr. W, aka the wind. Wind power is the most majestic looking power source we use. When I drive through northern Iowa, there's a stretch of interstate with windmills everywhere and it's dangerously distracting. I'm fascinated by them, and I think most people are. The trouble with wind, as power companies like to reiterate, …