It’s been 18 or 19 months since I upgraded from the Droid X to the Maxx. The X was a decent phone overall, not as refined by any means as the iPhone, but interesting. The Maxx was definitely an improvement in both hardware and software. The Maxx has also gotten a couple upgrades of software […]
Read more "Looking Back At the Droid Razr Maxx"I just sent Wikipedia five bucks. As someone who uses Wikipedia and finds it useful, I’m willing to donate in the hope that it grows, improves, and generally does better than the year before. I don’t know or think that it’s perfectly run or that they spend every dollar perfectly. No organization does. I didn’t […]
Read more "Supporting Wikipedia & Other Organizations"Friday (Dec 20, 2013) the Google Doodle was a crossword puzzle. I was curious so I clicked and yes, it was a full puzzle. It’s been years since I did a crossword. I did them for many years on Sunday, kind of a family tradition, but stopped somewhere along the way – I think it […]
Read more "Google IQ Test"Last week I had one of those days when I read something and then heard someone talking about the same thing – in this case the dual reference as about NFC tags. NFC stands for near field communication and is built into some smart phones as a way to interact with the ‘tag’. That lead […]
Read more "NFC Tags-Fun, And Maybe Useful at SQLSaturday"Today I ran through the first tutorial at Code.org. It has 20 very short lessons that use Angry Birds and zombies to teach the very basics of programming – instructions, loops, and conditionals. It was very well done, a nice UI supplemented with some short and interesting videos as you progress. Tonight I asked my […]
Read more "Learn To Code"Have you ever been told that it’s ok to fail? Did it ever feel like it was really ok to fail? Are you ok with other people trying and failing? Or do we look at them and think, they didn’t try hard enough, they didn’t ask the right questions, I would have done x, or […]
Read more "The World Needs More A/B Testing"Tonight I’ll be talking again with my children about Veteran’s Day, what it means to me, and what I hope it will mean to them. At ages of 7 & 10 it’s still pretty abstract, but worth a few minutes to build on what we talked about last year. I joined the military not long […]
Read more "Veterans Day 2013"Startup Weekend comes to Orlando on Nov 22-24, 2013. I haven’t been (and not sure I will make this one) but it looks interesting – starts with pitching ideas and then goes through building out a plan in the course of a weekend.
Read more "Startup Weekend Orlando"Tom Clancy died yesterday. I’ve been reading his books for a long time and I think I’ve read them all more than once. It was good entertainment for sure, it was fun to watch characters evolve and to watch his writing evolve, and it was interesting to see him translate the challenges of the real […]
Read more "Farewell Tom Clancy"Ever thought about what your average week looks like? What are the real core skills your environment uses every day or every week? I tried to write down all the variations I did last week, during an admittedly slow week: Adhoc full backup of a database Restore database with different name on same server Restore […]
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