August 2007 Entries
I was an early adopter of Plaxo - the contact sync and update tool. I managed to read the "update your address book" messages carefully enough to realize I needed to uncheck-all and avoid spamming my address book. Plaxo's mistake was making spamming everyone you know the default choice and they got a bad reputation in the marketplace because of it. Fast forward to a week or so ago and they launch Plaxo Pulse, their take on aggregated social networking services. The implementation is decent. They aggregate twenty-one different services currently and I've integrated six of them (Flickr, Last.fm,...
I didn't blog about it, but I did a half marathon about five weeks ago in Connecticut, because it was a warm-up, a trial run for the NYC half marathon which was this Sunday. My time in CT was a 1:33 and I was using 1:30 as a stretch goal for this race. (This works out to 6:52 min/mile pace) Race morning was like clockwork, Emily and I walked leisurely over to the start in Central Park, we had our gels and fluids just like the last race, the weather was warm and humid to be sure, but much cooler...
My family has always been into technology. Specifically though, they are into the technological benefits, not so much the sausage making that goes into it. We all have computers, broadband, DVRs, VOIP, etc, but there's no talk of SSH or RDP at the reunions. We've talked quite a bit about the need for a family "homepage", where we could all post pictures and videos - generally sharing stuff. Once I was maintaining my own servers at a datacenter, there's not much in the way from making that happen, and I considered installing something like DotNetNuke or Community Server or one of...