Think you’re a supertasker? Probably not – Technology & science – Wireless – msnbc.com – I believe it, though I’d also say that listening to talk radio (NPR, sports, etc.) or audio books while driving is in the same class as talking on the phone. TechStars New York – awesome. Why working at home is…
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The tickets for WordCamp Boulder 2010 went on sale today. The discounted early bird tickets have been flying off the shelves – it’s great to see such an enthusiastic response from our local tech community. I wanted to publish a quick Q & A to answer a few things I’ve seen circling around: What is…
Rands In Repose: The Twinge – great stuff, as usual (finally catching up on my InstaPaper). ongoing by Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web – Right now, there are certain classes of applications, particularly on mobile devices, where you’re going to get a better result by building a native app. Maybe even by building…
Welcome to my fifth annual year in review post. Last year I wrote this as an intro to my annual retrospective: This year, unlike previous years, my blog is less of a good record of the past 365 days. It’s a combination of being a lot busier due to the growth at Crowd Favorite, and…
The web was slow this week – which is a good thing. Hopefully people were away from computers and spending time doing worthwhile things with family and friends. I know I was. New in WordPress 2.9: Post Thumbnail Images – Mark on WordPress – Useful write-up. is TechStars really all that? – great to see…
A couple of years back I took stock of my fitness and made some changes to lose about 30 pounds. This summer, especially with schedules out of whack after the baby arrived, I noticed myself backsliding a little and wanted to fix it before things got out of hand. Quick recap: Weight in Nov. 2006:…
Some of these are a few weeks old – the last few weeks have been busy. 🙂 Capital Factory – if you missed out on TechStars, you may want to check this out. A friend of mine is a mentor there, looks like a cool program. YouTube – Did You Know? YouTube – You’re So…
This past weekend WordCamp made it’s first appearance in Denver. All in all, I believe it went pretty well. If you attended, you should have received a feedback survey today. I’m looking forward to seeing the responses and ideas people have to make WordCamp Denver 2010 even better (yes, I know – better WiFi). We…
Rands In Repose: A Twitter Decision Davenetics* : Wiid Shirt – it’s addicting – great stuff from Dave. Using git without feeling stupid (part 1) | GNU Smalltalk Windows 7 Impressions A Disclosure As a new manager, whenever the sky falls, you’ll become an engineer again. You’re going to fall back on the familiar because…
I think this is fantastic. I’ve been in touch with the Intense Debate team since early on at TechStars last year and think they’ve got a great team and product. Similarly, I think Automattic is a perfect home for them. Congratulations all around!
Too much travel, not enough reading this week. Twitter will Devolve Bluetooth Tethering with a BlackBerry Pearl on OS X WordPress 2.5 and the Object Cache SQL Virgin Again Last chance to apply for 2008
Welcome to my third annual year in review post. January – I begin offering premium support and TechStars is announced. I start helping RedMonk in their site update efforts, PHP Tag Engine reaches 1.0, I release a variety of WordPress plugin updates and we upgrade the Use Tasks service. February – I get to release…
Living with defaults – I learned this (and the value of web apps) when I started using 2+ machines on a regular basis. You just can’t maintain settings on everything, which is why apps like LaunchBar and MsgFiler are so great (because they react to your data, not setting up shortcuts, etc.). Adding Inline Search…
Review: MacBook Pro (15″ LED) The new Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro shows only modest improvements over its immediate predecessor — anyone who bought a MacBook Pro last month needn’t run to buy the new one — but it is a substantial improvement over the first MacBook Pro models, and very competitive with current Core 2…
Did you know? Tiny Twitter is so Colorado – ColoradoStartups.com Matt Damon and David Letterman Talk Sox-Yanks (thanks Steve O’Grady) Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at D5 – great write-up from Adam. Taps – agree with a lot of this, but this is a gigantic assumption and I don’t give it more than a 50%…