The past year went by in a blur for me. I had high expectations for the year and they were exceeded, which is more than you can ask for. My big goal for 2006 is to become a homeowner. That will hopefully happen in Q1 which will give me a good bit of the rest of the year to buckle down on the other goals.
Happy new year.
Happy Festivus. This is the only holiday post you’ll see from me. It’s the new christmas.
In case Festivus caught you unprepared this year, buy the pole in time to celebrate next year.
Just like on Seinfeld. I love it.
I’m once again giving the blog posting tool ecto a try. I was never able to get used to it in the past, but it has improved quite a bit since I last used it. I don’t for example remember image uploading to be included when I last tried it. So far so good, I have several sites hooked up and am able to post from the one window.
The website and name (company and product) are all still crap, but as long as it works right?
My father just put up a site that offers up his skills in photo retouching. He’s been a member of NAPP since day one and evidently had really bad hair a long time ago. It’s a little late for Christmas gifts (though if you have a scanner not too late), but you’ve probably got some old photos laying around somewhere. In my experience this is the sort of thing that blows away most [grand]parents–something they didn’t even know was possible.
After reading Rick’s review at MacMerc, I ordered Marware’s PowerBook Protection Pack. The hand rest is awesome. I had some damage on that area in my PB from prior use (thanks oily hands!) so I really wish this came right in the Apple box. Excellent product guys!
I have no idea how Dane Cook has a huge fan base. I’ve never been impressed by him, but since he’s everywhere these days I have heard a lot more of his stuff. It’s awful. But yet he’s got nearly 700,000 friends on MySpace, which means I’m not in the majority in thinking that he sucks. Oh well.
When I was in school I wrote a few papers on globalization but it’s just now starting to hit home. According to Measure Map which I’ve only been running for a few days, MobileTracker has reached 155 countries. The list includes countries like Sudan, Iraq, Iceland, Congo and Ghana. The long tail holds true and most visitors come from the US (followed by the UK and Canada), but I still find it amazing to see so much of the world represented.
Yesterday I started to dabble in outsourcing for some programming that I just don’t have time for. Don’t worry, no US jobs were lost–it may just mean the project will actually launch in a reasonable amount of time. In about twelve hours there were bids from over a half dozen companies/programmers located around the world. We’ll both be getting a deal.
Normally I would be nervous about outsourcing a project like this, but since it’s stuff I know how to do it’s a different situation. I won’t be duped by hype because I know exactly what I want and can look at the code and see if it’s up to snuff. I’ll report back here on how it turns out, hopefully soon!