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James Ruga

James Ruga
Location
San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday
August 07
Title
Director of Code Monkeys
Company
Salon Media Group, Inc.
Bio
Director of Engineering Salon Media Group, Yes I'm the guy who pulls together the applications on Salon's websites. Often I'm focused, often I'm un-focused, but always with Salon's best interests at heart! If it ain't working it's probably my fault! But don't let that stop you from reporting it anyways :)

MY RECENT POSTS

Editor’s Pick
NOVEMBER 26, 2008 4:51AM

MILK

Tonight was the opening nite at the Castro theater for the first commercial showing of "Milk", the story of Harvey Milk and his contribution to the gay civil rights movement. The film was nearly 2.5 hours in length, and when I entered the theater my biggest fear was that the film… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
MAY 3, 2008 1:23AM

Iron Man... OMG!!!

  Holy Cow! What a movie! I was throuroughly surprised and entertained.

iron man I was thinking what everyone else was... ya, ya, ya, another middle-aged, washed up, coke-head, 80's movie star trying to make a swan song come back in a lame superhero movie that relies on special effects… Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
APRIL 17, 2008 1:49PM

This was a fun experiment

 Well it did actually work and I was able to surf around... now I need to think about how this might be optimized to run on the iPhone. Today the iPhone, tomorrow the world! Muwhahahaha...

open salon on iphone Read full post »

Editor’s Pick
APRIL 8, 2008 2:55PM

Two Faced Baby a Hindu god?!

OK this is just freaky! This is the kind of stuff you only see in sci-fi movies and grocery store tabloids. But what is even more interesting is the cultural implication -- is it any wonder that there are Hindu gods with six arms? or two faces? It makes… Read full post »