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Life sneaks up on you
September 1st, 2008 • 1 comment Life
Tomorrow my son starts Kindergarten. Already. I’m very much excited for him, I think he’s a little genius and know he’ll do great. (yes, I’m biased, live with it. haha) He’s already reading, and has been for a long time. He counts to 100. Writes all his letters, and is already writing words. Reads sentences. Yes, I’m proud and amazed all at the same time. I know he’ll do far better than me, and I love that I get to help him get there.
Still, he’s my little man, my perfect son, and sometimes it’s hard to see him grow up so fast. I hope to remain his best buddy for the rest of my life.
thanks for listening….
Sweetcron
September 1st, 2008 • Life, tech
Tags: Sweetcron
As many of you may know, Sweetcron has been released into the wild. Yongfook (Jon) had been working on this for quite some time; even had been running his own site on it for a while before announcing it would be released.
I’ve installed a ‘beta site‘ with it, and am continuing to play around; time permitting.
The installation went fairly well, but I did run into one unfortunate incedent. Some of the files use upper case as the first character in the name. The FTP client I used decided to not pay attention to that on certain directories, and a good deal of searching and replacing had to happen. While I personally would like to see them as lower case characters, it was easy to figure out, and not a huge deal.
So far, it updates rather well, and adding new streams into the items tab is easy enough. I would like to see the ability to change my password, but Jon is working on that in a new version. I anticipate updates to come quickly; he did well with 8apps. (I was a fan of the site, but understand why he did not take it forward. Well written, beautiful to use, but I’m sure something of that nature would have turned into a full time job.)
I agree with the concepts of lifestreaming; I know Sweetcron is not the first, but to me, it does the bext job I’ve seen in solving the issues. Those of us that spend a lot of time online have data scattered everywhere. It was something I’d been thinking about for quite some time. Pownce, Twitter, Flicker, & YouTube accounts that we post to. But no real way to connect them. Sure, there is FriendFeed, but in my opinion it just add to the problem. It’s still just another account with your data. Having your own domain for this to collect upon just seems proper.
Jon makes a good point in the beginning of a recent talk he gave (I’ve not watched it’s entirety, but plan to soon). How many of us update our blogs daily? HAHA ya, exactly, not unless we essentially are out to make money in doing so.
While I do plan to keep my Wordpress blog around, I imagine it too will become just another feed in my Sweetcron lifestream. Yes, I know Sweetcron has a notes area, but for now the blog is staying - we’ll see long term. I do however, see this becoming the main page on my domain, blog taking or subdomain. I do post many places, and presenting this, on my own domain, is wonderful. (and Jon, if you read this, kudos again on the release of Sweetcron; you did not disappoint in the least - keep up the great work)
Twitter: woke up too early and now I…
August 17th, 2008 • Life
Not sure how or why, but lately I’ve really taken a liking to Twitter. For the longest time I just didn’t. The interface seemed hard to follow, seemed too random, just difficult to interact with. Then I gave it another chance. I’ve really grown to like it. It’s funny, though a bunch of it is just random chatter, it’s also a way to find out news; sometimes even quicker than traditional channels. Doing a search on earthquake the day one hit was remarkable. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=earthquake
If interested, I’m at:
http://twitter.com/mindonly
Comic Con
July 25th, 2008 • Life
Tags: ComicCon
Dawn’s been at Comic Con for today and yesterday. Thursday she had one of the worst experiences at Con she’s ever had. First, took her 3+ hours to get there due to an accident on the 5. Then, once she got there, she was barely able to see anything she wanted due to the hellish crowds. (yes, we’ve been there before - for years actually - this year just sounds worse than ever).
Then, she called me and said she lost the camera. Needless to say she was distraught. She checked lost and found, but no one had turned it in. I was more concerned about her being upset than a missing camera. Sure, it wan’t good that the camera was gone, but things could be worse right? Luckily I was already at Best Buy when she called, so I just bought her a new one. We got a very similar model for a good price - it was on sale so we’ll just say the timing wasn’t terrible.
Later, she called and just said the day sucked, she didn’t feel well, and she was just coming home. Poor thing. She was so looking forward to it, and Thursday just crapped out.
Today was much better. She got to meet Simon Pegg. Also got him to autograph a few things (including his own head on a stick - we’ll have to post pictures later). She also called me and said some guy asked her if she was with anyone, to which she replied she was married and showed the ring. –my wife is getting hit on at Comic Con, not sure if she’s allowed to go on her own next year! 
Me and the little man are meeting her down there tomorrow. I’ve been watching all the twitters come through about the con for 2 days <check here> and I’m getting excited. Hopefully our day turns out good. (watching the twit updates come through also has me wishing I already had my iPhone too, oh well, soon right?)
Wish me luck tomorrow.
Stop signs
July 24th, 2008 • Life
May 2007, originally uploaded by Sarah S.R..
reading through the Flickr blog found a great little collection of Stop sign modifications.
