The September 30th deadline for my BlackBerry Bounty has arrived, and unfortunately I haven’t seen a working solution from any of the folks who are working on it. I have, however, been in touch quite a bit this week with Daniel Pasco. Daniel has been working feverishly to meet the bounty deadline, and I’ve used…
September, 2006
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My week out west was quite busy – filled with good stuff. Many thanks to all of you who took time to meet up with me while I was in town. I thoroughly enjoyed both reconnecting with old friends and meeting new and interesting people.
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Throughout the day when there is something I need to attend to and I don’t have time at the moment, I throw it in Tasks Pro™ so I remember to get to it later. Normally, I’m able to complete about as many tasks as I add in a given day. This all changes when I’m…
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Voluntold – was used beautifully in context in a meeting today.
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When staying in a hotel with an unfamiliar alarm clock and up late enough/tired enough that you decide to change the alarm time, it is a good idea to double and triple check that the little AM/PM dot is indeed set to what you think it is. That is all…
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With just 5 short days left on the deadline for my bounty for tethering a BlackBerry 8700 to a Mac as a modem (bounty currently at $610 $675, please contribute!), there are suddenly a few rumblings. Perhaps someone will claim the bounty after all! Will anyone make the Sept. 30 deadline? In the BlackBerry forums,…
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Sprint PCS and the 8700 – BlackBerryForums.com : Your Number One BlackBerry Community FastMail.FM weblog – Proactive update! Authenticated and private feeds – Tasks Proâ„¢ and Tasks feeds can use either 401 authentication or URL based authentication. . . . And, On the Other Side: The Liberal Argument At Its Most Persuasive – Nay, Seductive.…
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I’ll be in the Bay Area next week, drop me a note if you’d like to meet up. I figured this is a good time to send in my monitor for repair, so it’s off – expected back in 7-10 working days. Kudos to DHL for same day pick-up on a Saturday.
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The theme system in WordPress is one of its great strengths and something that is loved by most WP users. It’s a very good thing. However, different developers like setting up code in different ways. While the theme system works well as advertised, it doesn’t work exactly the way I like to set up my…
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Software pricing is an interesting art. To me, one of the more interesting aspects of it is how the correct price of a product is affected not only by supply and demand and what the market will bear, but also by things like how many customers you have and the size of your company’s customer…
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I’ve been doing a little work on a proof-of-concept for a new fully WordPress driven alexking.org site. I’m working off of the current WP trunk (“trunk” is the place bugs are created in any software), so naturally I ran into a couple of minor issues. After a brief IM conversation with Ryan to make sure…
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‘Tis the fourth anniversary of Talk Like a Pirate Day on me blog. Pass the grog and spread th’ word.
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In discussing the support I provide for my products (and changes I can make to do it better) with Geof, he pointed out that developers can be simultaneously the best and worst people to support their products. One issue is communication – not everyone does it well. I think I do better than some, but…
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After reading about Are you a big fish? on Mark’s blog I dutifully went over and did my standard ego searches. The results were a little interesting. For example, ‘alexking.org’ is decidedly a little fish – a “Tiny Lil Guppy” to be precise: Certified Backlinks.Site Class:Are you a Big Fish? On the other hand, ‘www.alexking.org’…
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War’s Critics Abetting Terrorists, Cheney Says – I saw part of this interview, had to turn it off as Cheney continued to assert that there was a link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda. Long Term Contracts The Olbermann factor | Salon News – I had to look up a few of these clips… YouTube – Olbermann…