Entries from June 2005

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

iTunes 4.9

An iPodderX user and a podcast fan gives his impressions of the new iTunes Overall, it is decent. If iPodderX hadn’t been getting increasingly yicky as it adds unnecessary features and interface I probably wouldn’t switch, but the new iTunes does a decent job at handling podcasts without too much fuss. The new podcast directory [...]

Monday, June 27th, 2005

The Apartment

Good food, nice service, but find the fatal flaw… We thought that this place was brand new, but it turns out that it has been here a while. This review from the Seattle PI is pretty much on track. The staff was very friendly and attentive. The food was delicious, when we did get it, [...]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

I’m now officially part of the problem…

My 1st software patent application has finally appeared on line! Hierarchical In-Place Menus – a mechanism to make windows-like hierarchical menus work on a much smaller screen

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Gnomedex 5.0 Afternoon 2nd Day

Today is a lot better than yesterday Until we started talking about weatherbug, not only were the speakers good, but the questions have been great, and Marc Cantor has mostly kept his mouth shut. I thought Steve Rubel’s talk was pretty good, but then the audience just started complaining about the product he was using [...]

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

Gnomedex 5.0 Morning 2nd Day

Chris Pirillo says that he loves us. Aww… I’m doing a bit of a geek test today. I’m wearing my Dark Castle t-shirt that Delta Tao made when they resurrected the game. For those who aren’t aware, this was a way cool game for the 1st generation macs and then Delta Tao bought it and [...]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Gnomedex 5.0 Afternoon first day

fucking Microsoft Microsoft did a very funny ad-skit for their hive blog crap. While it was quite funny, I’m already getting tired of Microsoft and their kind of viral marketing stuff would work a lot better at PDC then here. We’re constantly bombarded by Microsoft logos all day long and now having an informercial between [...]

Friday, June 24th, 2005

Gnomedex 5.0 morning first day

just my opinions… this is one of the geekiest things I have ever done. Dave Winer is cool, but I kept thinking during his talk “It is just a fucking file format, not a lifestyle.” Of course, for him it is a lifestyle. This was more directed at some of the obnoxious comments coming from [...]

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

At Gnomedex

So far, not so good I’m attending Gnomedex this year. Given that I’m blogging and it ties in with my job and I live three blocks away from where it is being held, it was pretty much a no-brainer. I stopped by this evening to pick up my badge and attend the Google beer-fest, but [...]

Thursday, June 23rd, 2005

I’m mostly over podcasts

Podcasting is like, so last year. Last year, it was kind of fun. There were not too many podcasts and it was kind of exciting and new. I subscribed to a bunch of them and tried to keep up and as new ones (even those which were only slightly interesting to me) came out, I’d [...]

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

My tell-all Microsoft entry

or not A few of my (very few) readers have connected me to Microsoft via my posts or my resume and wonder why I don’t dish more dirt like MiniMSFT or Joel On Software. It isn’t that I don’t have the dirt to dish. Believe me, I’ve got plenty. Also, after eight years there, I [...]