November 2010
34 posts
WONDER-TONIC: TSA Announces Facebook Integration... →
wondertonic:
John Pistole, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, announced yesterday that full body scanners at airports across the nation will be seamlessly integrated with Facebook next month, allowing travelers to save, tag, and share their near-naked security photos with friends,…
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9 Days Alone: Day Nine and a Half—Saturday
While day nine was the final full day on my own this time around, I did have most of Saturday to do with as I pleased before my wife got back from her trip across the pond around 4:45PM.
I decided this would be my last chance to sleep in for a while, so I did. Once I finally woke up and ready, I had to make sure the house was in model home shape like it was when she left. That took all of five...
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9 Days Alone: Day Nine—Friday
Day nine was spent primarily at home watching the live stream for the Under the Radar conference while bouncing around between email, editing some photos, and hunting for a good domain name for my project. I tuned into the conference initially to see Matt Curtin from Social Smack give his fast pitch. I may or may not have done some consulting with them while they were in their infancy, so I may or...
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9 Days Alone: Day Eight—Thursday
The first half of day eight was spent filling out paperwork in preparation of putting our house on the market next week. I did a wee bit of work on the proprietary project in preparation for my final push on it in the next couple of days.
I went to Houndstooth later in the afternoon as I needed to get out of the house and I was meeting friends for dinner later a few doors down anyhow. I ran into...
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9 Days Alone: Day Seven—Wednesday
I’ve been informed that people are actually reading these things and that I need to make them at least mildly interesting. Fine.
Yesterday, I woke up to find an email announcing that applications are now being accepted for TEDx Austin. I attended the first TEDx Austin event earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed both the talks and the conversations that took place in between, so, after...
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9 Days Alone: Day Six—Tuesday
Day six alone was a good day. A long day. But a good day.
I initially had a lunch meeting with the client I’ve been working on the proprietary project for, but he called the night before to see if we could meet for breakfast instead. I ran into some technical issues with some of the content on his site that ate up a good bit more of my time than I had anticipated, so I ended up sleeping all...
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9 Days Alone: Day Five—Monday
Day five’s summary is short and sweet.
Before getting back to work on my current project, I spent the morning paying bills and updating the budget, which is something I do at least once a week now, just to make sure nothing sneaks up on me.
After I finished the bills and budget, I hit Chipotle for an early lunch. Shortly after finishing lunch, I got a phone call from friend and client,...
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9 Days Alone: Day Four—Sunday
On my fourth day sans wife, I rested. Sort of. I didn’t spend any significant amount of time looking at a screen. I decided to hit up Taco Deli for some breakfast and Sodade for some coffee, intending to take it home and eat. Instead, I ended up getting a DM from friend and client, Annette Priest, who wanted to know if I was up for brunch at The Original Pancake House near my house. I...
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9 Days Alone: Day Three—Saturday
After a late night out, I slept until 11AM. I didn’t have a drop to drink last night, yet I woke up feeling like crap anyhow thanks to the allergy/cold/second-hand smoke hangover from going to the outdoor concert last night.
I left the house around 12:30PM and headed Downtown to check out Barkitecture and the Gypsy Picnic Trailer Food Festival. The lines were all 70-100 people deep when I...
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9 Days Alone: Day Two—Friday
On my second full day on my own, I woke up around 8AM to get the usual morning stuff out of the way before meeting @GlennBanton and @TallGamer at 10AM for brunch at The Steeping Room. They had some stuff to discuss and Glenn’s friend wanted to hear about my biz idea. I definitely need to work on a concise pitch now that I’m sharing it with folks who don’t know me and have shorter...
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9 Days Alone: Day 0.5 and Day One—Wednesday &...
My first full day and a half spent with my wife in a different time zone wasn’t quite as productive as I had planned.
Day 0.5: After spending most of yesterday morning watching my wife run around the house packing for a ten-day trip at the last minute before stopping at China Sea for a quick bite and dropping her off at the airport at 3:30PM, I had an impromptu meeting at Jo’s Coffee...
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9 Days Alone: Intro
I put my wife on a plane yesterday, so I’m rolling solo with my four-legged friends for the next nine days.
Lots of my married friends have a habit of posting sickeningly-sweet BS on Twitter and/or Facebook about how much they miss their wives after they’ve only been back from dropping them at the airport for 27 minutes, but my wife travels several times a year for work and I’ve...
Geek Luddites →
marco:
Watts Martin’s analysis of the migration toward “app console” hardware:
The model we’re moving toward, though, is premised on the idea that computers shouldn’t require routine tech support. Again, look back at game consoles: an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 is a fully programmable computer with networking capability, offline storage, removable media, the whole shebang, yet all of that is...
Marco.org: Developers don't rush to new platforms →
marco:
A common fallacy is assuming that any new platform in an exciting market — recently, smartphones and tablet computers — will be flooded with developers as soon as it’s released, as if developers are just waiting outside the gates, hungrily waiting to storm in.
In two recent cases, that’s exactly…
