My mini-review of Digsby
As I mentioned in another post, I have contacts I care about on just about every IM protocol. Since an open instant messaging protocol is still a bit of a pipe-dream, I have to rely on multi-protocol...
View ArticleThe decline of PC gaming
Interesting discussion I read on Kotaku a few weeks back about what ails PC Gaming: http://kotaku.com/5206876/what-ails-the-worlds-biggest-gaming-platform As a former PC gamer (the Quake series, Age...
View ArticleMoved my blog to WordPress (and upgraded it to 3.0)
About a year(!) back, I moved my blog from Community Server 2007 to WordPress. I did this since upgrading to newer versions of Community Server on a shared-hosting GoDaddy account was next to...
View ArticleUpdated Travel Map
I should probably blog at some point about all the travel I’ve done over the past couple of years – Cabo San Lucas, Alaska, Costa Rica, Vail, Key West, London and Costa Rica to name a few. In the...
View ArticleMaking the best of a startup weekend
I was at the Startup Weekend event in Seattle last weekend and many people asked me how my experience was, so rather than reply to each person individually, I thought I’d write it up. This was my 5th...
View ArticleHow To Get That Next Product Manager Job (at Google etc…)
About once or twice a week, I get a email or a LinkedIn question from someone asking me about Product Management roles at Google. I used to spend 15-30 mins in a call with many of these folks, but then...
View ArticleKing County Metro’s City Panorama Project
One of my recent photographs, the ‘North Star in Eastern Washington’ was selected by King County Metro as one of the photos that will adorn Seattle-area bus shelters later this year. It will be...
View ArticleUpgrading my 2010 Macbook Pro 13″
I have an older Macbook Pro that I bought around 3 years back. I bought it with grand plans of coding away in a coffee shop or editing photos on a plane back home, but between the fact that I do...
View ArticleTesla Model X – pick up and first impressions
So, 3 years and 14 days after I placed my reservation, 6 months and 21 days after our order and a painful 51 days after our original delivery date, we picked up my Tesla Model X 90D, VIN 22xx Saturday...
View ArticleMaking a new Mac geek friendly
This is a collection of settings that I usually use on my Mac to make them more geek and programmer friendly. They have been last tested on Mac OS 10.9.1 Feel free to use, copy, modify, distribute and...
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