“This is about me inviting you to follow me while I pursue a goal.” – Tim Coyne
Struck me as one of the nicest things to offer.
About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
“This is about me inviting you to follow me while I pursue a goal.” – Tim Coyne
Struck me as one of the nicest things to offer.
So far, I’m thankful I can say the same for friends and family (thanks to Twitter, IM, and mobile phones). I’m also thankful for telecommuting.
– thanks to smithers for the photo
The stretch of Highway 35W bridge I – and many other of my Twin Citizens – take to get around Minneapolis collapsed earlier this evening.
Gone.
Into the river taking 50+ cars, trucks, and a school bus with it.
If you need an idea of where:
Imagine this picture without the big bridge.
I’m pretty torqed @ the mobile phone networks right now. This is when they’re needed the most. And they’re failing.
UPDATE 3 AUG 2007:
With the 35W South onramp @ Stinson/New Brighton Blvd closed and now 280 closed @ Broadway, I went from living in a place with easy access to all major Twin Cities freeways, to being completely isolated. It’ll probably be like this for a couple years. Farg.
I’m anxious to see how NE Mpls culture will change between now and when 35W re-opens. Will the disconnect with downtown make it more NE-y, more suburban, or more North-y?
When Joanne and I set up her weblog, she had a brand new MacBook Pro. No longer.
Joanne, I’m sorry for your loss. I hope it comes to a sastisfactory conclusion.
A gentle reminder to add your name to the PodcampMN 2007 attendee list wiki.
Thanks to Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial and Boned for the great capture-the-flag-at-summer-camp logo.
See you there.
UPDATE 19 May 2011
If disaster strikes which one do you bet on for getting back up and usable faster?
Inspired by:
A gentle reminder to add your name to the PodcampMN 2007 attendee list wiki.
Thanks to Johnee Bee from Mostly Trivial and Boned for the great capture-the-flag-at-summer-camp logo
After watching my Treo 650 looping restart all morning, I’ve decided to leave it 1 and move to a very utilitarian Nokia 6086.
Things I dislike about the Nokia:
Things I like quite a bit about the Nokia
Dave Winer’s review-at-one-month confirms I made the right decision not picking up an iPhone.
LATER:
I just added a synchronization command to my regular backup script. Feels like tech working for me, not me playing with tech. A good feeling.
UPDATE 31 July 2007:
My number has been ported to the new Nokia. Yea! So far, with my little playing around, it works as expected. I’m actually finding I can dial much faster and more reliably from the Nokia keypad than I ever could from the Treo. I’ll miss Chatter – but I think I’ll get over it. 🙂
1. And unless something very interesting happens, Palm for good.
2. As simple as it looks, I hosed my system the first time I did it. Had to restart in Safe Mode and wait through an fsck to get back to normal. No fun. Second time, no problems.
UPDATE 21 August 2007:
I’m happy for 2 things:
UPDATE 26 November 2007
This Nokia is turning out to be a pretty horrible phone. Mute & loudspeaker, my two most used functions during conference calls, are a pain to access – even when the screen doesn’t fall asleep and go black during a call. While dialing is faster than the Treo, it’s still cumbersome – using this keypad for text messages makes me cringe. And needing to clear every message the phone wants to tell me before I can tell it to do something isn’t right. Plus, I’ve gotten lost enough to justify hiring a full-time guide, let alone a magical device w/ Google Maps on it.
As I suspected, T-Mobile has added more phones to the WiFi lineup – namely a. Blackberry Curve. Attractive, but I’m not sure if I want to go back to Missing Sync.
As much as I like Kris, I disagree with his How to save your unconference post.
It’s #2 that gives it away:
“Awesome hallway conversations”
If you’re having awesome hallway conversations, it’s not an unconference. It’s a regular conference. Sorry.
A good unconference has the awesome conversations within the sessions. Otherwise – why bother with the sessions? Maybe you enjoy sitting quietly while being pitched to?
If the goal of the event is to be a conference – then absolutely take Kris’ advice. Be a conference; plan the hell out of it, have tracks, boring lecture/presentations, and tasteless box lunches. Sounds like a waste of time for everyone.