- still kickin
This site is pretty cool for creating a professional business card. You get to create a portfolio and a resume for free. Check it out:
It will likely replace my linkedin profile button over on the right. Raveal compared to LinkedIn reminds me of google local compared to mapquest for some reason. Something about the UI, LinkedIn is so busy and ugly.
No, seriously, this is really cool:
If there is one good thing W did for this country, it is to get people to care about voting.
Record. Fucking. Turnout.
Disclaimer: That is a big IF.
Wow, that last month or so is such an up hill battle. We have finally launched Flowzit, our first product. Check it out:
If you haven't received an invite code for the Family & Friends account, shoot me an email.
For the past 9 months and change, I have been working on a new application and company to support it. We are getting ready to go live soon.
You can follow our twitter feed: twitter.com/flowz.
A recent issue of Time goes into the sorry state of affairs in Michigan in the context of the election season:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1828307,00.html
I'm now full time on a Mac and am currently exploring Solaris for use in a production cluster. Mainly because of ZFS, which is the most fabulous new thing to happen to IT in 8 years. I'm installing it as a VMWare guest OS on my Mac. Over the past two months or so, I have tried to install Solaris 10 at least 10 times with no success. It always locks up hard right around 50% at something like "preparing install."
It is the most frustrating thing in the world right now. Well, really, a close second behind Michigan roads.
But today I found this page:
http://www.vmware.com/support/fusion/doc/releasenotes_fusion.html
I have an iPhone. I have had one since the first hour it went on sale. My wife stood inline on the day of the launch a week before our wedding. Yeah, I'm a lucky guy. :)
In my eyes there is nothing out there that comes close.
BUT.
That's a big BUT.
Driving me nuts.
If you are a developer on OS X and you are customer of JetBrains using IDEA the Java IDE, it is a cloudy year for you!
There are two critical bugs that haven't been fixed in over 6 months since being reported to JetBrains. IDEA enabled my fulltime switch to OS X and now it is unusable after 4 - 5 open files or half a work day. Whichever comes first.
Check it out:
