About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
I grabbed lunch with Leif Utne earlier this week. As you might expect, it was a pretty intense conversation on podcasting, technology, politics, and the overlap. First order of business, I’m down with Minneapolis going with a private company to run citywide WiFi network for the two reasons cited in the Strib article: Startup CostsThe …
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Cranking out some wireframes this evening, I needed a little pick-me up. The trusty SXSW Showcasing Artists were there to help out – specifically, The Divorce and their rocking track Yes, off their Gifted Program release.
Two-hour kick off to Season 9. Premieres are tough, lots of people to meet right away, 11 teams, 22 people. Nobody jumped out at us during the introductions. They all talked smack in the same way, “Everyone else will underestimate us, and we’ll beat them.” Blah. Once is bravado – 11 times is scripted insipidity. …
After a week with the 650+ tracks in the first 2006 SXSW Showcasing Artist Bittorrent, here’s the first 10 tracks capturing my attention. I am Constellation by The KingdomAnother mystical cult trying to get a recording deal to promote some bizarre religion based around a Baltimore Colts’ quarterback. I’m such a sucker for singing-in-the-round. Lunch …
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I just added a few, hopefully, useful links (comments, trackback, email, digg) to the RSS feed of Garrick Van Buren .com and my other blogs. If you’re running WordPress and want to do the same (something like Feedburner’s FeedFlare), here’s the code I’m using: < ?php comments_popup_link(__('0 Comments'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?> | < …
While the house was being shown tonight, Jen and I tried out Cabina’s Italian Kitchen in the ever maturing Silver Lake Village. I’m not sure why, I always assume Italian places are going to be Maggiano’s and pricier. Tonight, I was more in the mood for Chipotle than than sit-down Italian. Cabina’s is closer to …
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(Matt Thompson from the Strib and me in a MNstories video documenting the party.) I, along with 600 of Rex Sorgatz‘s closest friends wished him well in his move to Seattle and Microsoft last night. Honestly, I haven’t been to a blow out like that in quite a while. The food, the drink, the hundreds …
I’ve been using the Macintosh Stickies to keep track of things for years. It’s been my standby note taking application for 3 main reasons: free with the OS just start typing no need to explicitly ‘Save’ works without internet access I thought it’d be neat if Stickies could be shared. The folks behind iSticky thought …
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There’s a showing at the house this morning. Between waking up, tidying up, responding to the morning email, I wasn’t able to grab a decent breakfast (or brunch as I prefer). I already had a cup of coffee, just needed a network, someplace reasonably quiet, and some food. Too many places with free wifi don’t …
This week, after driving through the Warehouse district then picking up a few things at my local Target I thought – “this will never be a condo.” Today’s warehouses have no windows, no walls, and nothing interesting. Unfortunate. Feels like artificially hijacking the circle of life.