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1-Jul
Well, kids, in case you didn’t notice, half a year is gone. July is a month of VaporFreeze for me. A chance to bring to closure a ton of loose ends and dangling projects that just need that final afternoon or so of work to get them “done…” or
When, exactly, did my life...
…turn into a neverending series of meetings? 7 tomorrow… all on a wildly diverse set of topics all around town; all promise to be fun, interesting, or productive. Except when do I get to do the WORK? Oh wait, my work happens to BE conversation.
Enough!
I could do without all the coy, inside-joke laden, April Fool’s blog entries and/or redesigns please. I mean come on… is it really THAT important to one-up everyone else… grrrr….
Blogger's Meetup
Ok, if I dont do this, now, I’ll never do it: round up of meetup last night. Oh, and has anyone else noticed the guy with the fedora and vest that has been around at every single meetup regardless of where we were? Or is that just my imagination.
Lighting a fire under my rump...
I showed a longtime friend/guru a demo of Tock, in its current form, with all the bells and whistles flying yesterday afternoon because he was complaining about Outlook and wished “there was a better way.” I had no intention of showing off a half-baked, barely working piece of software,
One of two things...
Either I just made an incredible blunder in judgement or I made a brilliant move in frugality. I just took advantage of a triple-punch rebate offer for a laptop through Best Buy… saving me about $450. That’s right… welcome to the 20th century, Dave; I finally took the plunge
A-choo!
Here’s something I would rather not see in my inbox: Update: Mold Remediation We wanted to let staff know that there are no health hazards present outside the containment. The negative air machines are equipped with heap filters that constantly clean the air inside the containment, with the filters
No need to worry
TiVo, I learned today, has gone to great lengths to try to disable hacks in their latest software on their Series 2 machines (no word on whether or not my hacks will stick on my Series 1…) You can’t blame them, though, for being so paranoid. It’s so
Casino in Downtown Austin??
“Keep Austin Weird,” “Don’t Sell Out” and other xenophobias make Austin people want to horde our little Central Texas treasure. Allow me to ramble a bit about economic development, the Arts, and tourism.Austin has again and again proven that it has difficulty with growth and expansion. For example,