About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“Okay, Twitter is funny; I really don’t want to type in @garrickvanburen when Garrick knows who he is, but ‘at Garrick’ gets coded wrong. :(” – Eric Larson “I would love to see the distributed infrastructure of the web, blogs and RSS reach the level of adoption and usefulness that Facebook has, I’m quite certain …
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This week our Netflix queue hasn’t been very good to us. While Prison Break started off engaging and interesting, it falls apart quickly halfway through Season 1 Disc 2. Where the less MacGyver-inspired supporting stories unfold. Netflix’s Suggested Rating: 3-stars Last night, Idiocracy. After watching more than 15 minutes of the film, I’m not surprised …
Repairs on the ’98 Neon are approaching it’s value and I can’t rely on it the way I was once able to. It’s been a great car, but I can see the day when it won’t serve us anymore. With that in mind, I’m starting the search for a new vehicle to replace it. From …
In Dave Slusher’s Dog Daze Clambake, Dave digs into his financial strategy. While I appreciate where Dave’s coming from (don’t buy stuff you don’t need) and our savings rate is also in the double digits, he makes a couple of assumptions I completely disagree with: Retirement, as sold to our grandparents, will exist a decade …
Some nice improvements in the Public Beta of the new Safari. A mix of must-haves and nice-to-haves. I’m quite pleased by the following: Resizeable textareas Spotlight/Firefox-esque in-page Find Submit buttons now support CSS
Gizmo Project now supports AIM and MSN ‘buddies’. But not both at the same time. If they did, I’d drop Adium. But they don’t so I still don’t have a reason to use Gizmo over my current Skype/Adium combo.
This past weekend was the second scheduled Chicago trip for this summer. Like previous trips, all my frustrations and annoyances with the city back. Immediately. As we sat for 20-minute in a bumper-to-bumper traffic jam behind the 85 cent toll booth at O’Hare. What a horrible way to introduce visitors to the city. I strongly …
A copy of OurSpace: Resisting the Corporate Control of Culture was just dropped off by FedEx. The folks in the University of Minnesota Press’ Promotions Dept. thought I’d enjoy it. It’s been a long time since I’ve done a book review. Looking forward to it.
Reactee.com is doing for t-shirts what Twitter did for instant messaging. Of course, the best way to figure out how a new medium works is to republish a blog through it.
I got a call today from a local organization asking for a list of blogger to extend press passes to. I was familiar with the organization and have a pretty good idea who would dig what they were doing. The criteria they were most interested in was size of readership. From my email reply: “In …
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