August 2011
1 post
WatchLast Friday was 100 day. I started in the 50’s last October.
July 2011
1 post
March 2011
1 post
1 tag
Running
So what happened to my running? In July I ran 7 miles one day in my Vibrams, and then my knee hurt. Put me out for six weeks. That was after I spent all year working back up to 4 miles per day after my injury from racing a 10k.
I picked it back up when I got to Seattle, but the injury damaged my psyche. It felt like I was sneaking workouts in, hoping that my knees wouldn’t notice. No fun.
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February 2011
1 post
wp7. hmph. [update: meh]
Update: “Meh” is better than “hmph.” That’s progress. There is finally a viable Reader for wp7! Feed Reader 2.0 actually works! Five stars just for working. It has a Play Audio button that will read the post to me. Awesome. Cheering for you, wp7. You can do it, little wp7. (That was somewhat condescending. Where’s my January update? It’s March 16th.)
And...
December 2010
4 posts
Music + Videos
A minute ago I was browsing Bob Marley albums in the Music + Videos app on my Windows Phone 7. (I named the wp7 Jenny, by the way.) The app froze, and after a minute I hit the Windows button to kill it. I tried to open it five times. Nothing. It would show the Loading thing with the dots flying across the screen, and the it would exit. I had to reboot the phone to get Music + Videos to load...
Windows Phone 7 Sadness
More reasons not to get a wp7:
Can’t buy/download music directly from the phone. Huh? All (yes, all) of the music I purchased from iTunes I bought while I was out and about. I heard a song I loved, went iTunes on my phone, and purchased. Can’t do that on my wp7. [edit: yes you can. there’s a Marketplace link within the app.]
Marketplace gets in a state where it just...
iPhone to Windows Phone 7
I got a Windows Phone 7 a few days ago. The last picture I posted was my iPhone, face down, in the Microsoft Store bag. It looked so tired there. It’s been the most satisfying electronic device I’ve ever owned. I’m not a fan of OSX or the iPad, both of which I own, but my iPhone is/was impressive.
I wasn’t going to make the change, but then my friends started bringing the...
September 2010
1 post
Back in the Saddle
I feel like I just got back from the longest vacation of my life. Oh wait. That’s exactly what happened. Graduated in June. Spent a solid month (200 hours?) getting to know the LAMP stack, EC2, and the beauty of RESTful API architecture. Probably spent too long doing that, and then I remembered I had to get myself and my three favorite people to Seattle. That took a month. Then three weeks...
June 2010
2 posts
Holy Trailing Newline
I think many of my family members are wondering what on earth I’m doing in the corner of a spare bedroom of my mother-in-law’s basement. It being summer and all, and having just graduated and all, and having two really fun 1 year olds and all, it is kind of crazy to be holed up. So I thought I’d take a moment to add some color to everyone’s perception of what I’m...
Amazon EC2
So what on earth am I up to these days? I just spent two days learning about Amazon EC2 and deciding how I’m going to run a web server on it. I’m using a public AMI (Amazon Machine Image) that’s EBS (Elastic Block Store) backed.
To run what you would think of as a web server, you really need an Instance whose Root Device is an Elastic Block Store. Otherwise, all data persisted...
May 2010
3 posts
1 tag
April 2010
27 posts
Thoughts on my iPad
Things that I don’t like:
I keep finding myself wanting something to prop it up so I don’t have to hold it up. What if it could be attached to a bottom part, connected at a hinge that you could adjust perfectly to how youre sitting at the time. Wait, I have one of those in my bag too…
The first thing I did was fire up the browser. After just a minute realized that it’s an ok experience, at best....
The Giant iPod Touch, I mean The iPad
Doctor Cialdini, professor of influence, lists Scarcity as one of the seven principles of influence. Is anyone surprised that my Apple store “can’t keep iPads in stock?” I had to put my name on a list to be notified when my iPad had arrived. After the notification, I would have 24 hours to claim my iPad. Lo and behold, my notification came one day after I put my name on the list....
WatchAs you can see, Molly gave the girls each a cookie in an Easter Egg.
March 2010
20 posts
