San Francisco

I’m flying down to San Francisco tomorrow for a nice, long relaxing weekend (Friday afternoon to Tuesday morning). Napa, fireworks, my birthday, Helen, how could it possibly be better? ;-)

My boss, Jason, burst into my office this afternoon asking me if I could hit IKEA with him to buy what would work out to be about $300 worth of picture frames. I’ve been selected, by him, to put together a poster series of sorts for our floor. It serves a legitimate business purpose, and I’m the unlucky one due to my semi-tolerable Photoshop skills.

He was horribly disappointed when I reminded him that I was leaving town, and that-more importantly-he’d been perfectly happy to let me go at the time when he didn’t foresee a pressing desire for nearly a dozen gigantic black frames.

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June 30, 2005

Chimp Tunes working better again

I was cleaning up some backend code of mine last week and ended up introducing a bug into the Chimp Tunes code that:
1. Updates song titles in the database.
2. Downloads cover art for display in your Snooze window.

I finally figured out what was causing this (dumb mistake on my part), and that’s all working again. Hooray.

More info forthcoming on iRooster. I really am working on it still. I promise.

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June 29, 2005

A Half-Gram of Mescaline

Hannibal of Ars Technica visited Wired Magazine’s disappointing NextFest: I know if I were Japanese, I’d collect both models and watch them fight over a half gram of mescaline.

Oh yeah, and for the five people I haven’t told yet, I’m off to Paris for five days in early July. Looks like it’ll be a lot of fun :)

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June 28, 2005

:-)

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June 21, 2005

The Next 50 Years of Software

I was pointed at this by Larry Osterman’s weblog today. It’s a paper written by Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) for the ACM97 conference entitled The Next 50 Years of Software. It does a lot to explain software bloat, the changing role of the PC in everyday life, blah blah blah. You know, the typical stuff I love reading ;-) .

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June 17, 2005

Tech Ed Was a Blast

I had a terrific time at Tech Ed in Orlando last week, although I’m afraid that my liver is a bit under the weather now. I’m not going to bother rehashing the million other things that have already been said about it, except to plug the podcast video taken with me at the conference (available here), and say that there is more to come on this topic from a more personal level.

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June 14, 2005