Last night I attended the monthly BayCHI meeting which featured two guest speakers on podcasting: Podcasting: Media Evolution or Revolution?, Doug Kaye, IT Conversations Podcast Solutions and Podcast Problems, Dan Klass, The Bitterest Pill I had never been to a BayCHI meeting before, but they have an impressive list of speakers. I estimated about 50 people attended last night. It was cool seeing Dan Klass in person after following The Bitterest Pill for a while now. Rather than following prepared comments, Dan gave some intro comments and spent most of the time answering peoples questions (in depth). Dan emphasized the…
From teevee.org comes this little gem, explaining the final episode of Lost in terms of the famous adventure game Zork: LOST> look crate Inside the wooden crate you see many sticks of dynamite, encrusted with nitroglycerin, packed in straw. Arzt says, “Do you know what happens to dynamite in tropical weather? It sweats nitroglycerin. Nitroglycerin is the most unstable chemical known to man.” Suddenly, Arzt explodes. (Via Don’t Back Down)
Eric Sink’s latest columns is up on MSDN: Finding a Product Idea for Your Micro-ISV. Eric has been writing a monthly column for MSDN from the perspective of an independent software vendor. He started using the term “Micro-ISV” to mean a software company with just one person. In this month’s column, he points out among other things that someone beat him to it and register the microisv.com domain name. But, at least a growing community has formed there with some useful information and pointers to other blogs. The focus this month is finding product ideas for your newly-founded single-person adventure.…
Today I started my next career adventure. After working for palmOne for over 5 years, I’ve switched gears and am now working at Yahoo! managing part of the Yahoo! Messenger client engineering team. Like my work on Palm Desktop software, the Messenger product is a high-visibility consumer desktop application. The addition of being a network-connected application will make this even more exciting (and another good learning curve). Today I made it through new-hire orientation which wasn’t too bad as far as these go. Tomorrow starts the real work!
The New York Times recently released The New York Times Essential Library: Children’s Movies which lists their top 100 movies for kids. This is excellent timing as we’ve been trying to move beyond the animated Disney movies. I haven’t bought the book yet, but this is a good list for rentals at least.