March 2008 Entries
I would like to just note a time-when-I-discovered-them-progression of my favorite women in music that happen to be British. Ms Dynamite - R&B signer, favorite song "DY-NA-MI-TEE" Lady Sovereign - Grime rapper, favorite song "Random 2" Lily Allen - favorite song "LDN" Amy Winehouse - favorite song "Tears Dry on Their Own" Kate Nash - sounds an awful lot like Lily Allen*, favorite song "Foundations" Adele - sounds an awful lot like Amy Winehouse*, favorite song "My Same" *In both cases, I mean this in the best possible way. And even better than just telling you about...
Whenever I have an important document to write, I use a trick that got me through high school writing classes: I use Text-to-Speech and have my document read back to me. The computer reads your document literally, following punctuation via a rules engine, now "how you meant it to sound." It becomes painfully obvious if you miss a comma or use awkward language. The original tool I used came with my sound card at the time, this was the beginning of Windows 95 and ran on my 90mhz Pentium. Over the years I've used a different packages to...
My BU ski team friends and I have an annual ski trip. We've only missed two years in the ten since college. This year, Brennan and I flew out to Seattle/Portland (long story) where Val and Ben took us Easterners on a snow-storm-chase which ended up at Mt Hood in Oregon. We stayed at the Salmon River Meadows Lodge, skied three days at the Meadows mountain and did one day of backcountry ski touring. Basically that means you hike up and earn your turns. You put "skins" on the bottom of your skis that allow the...
Tuesday evening, Tim and I presented Notches for the first time in public at the Web2NewYork tech meetup. I had just flown in from my annual ski vacation, but made it from JFK with enough time to spare. The cab trip in was stressful, but I wasn't nervous at all going into it the talk. On the plane ride I put together my final script for the seven minute presentation, and I was pleased at how it turned out. But when it was our turn to present, I didn't have a good way of keeping my notes, which...
March 4th, 2008 is Notches launch day. Much of this information was already available if you knew where to look or who to talk to, but today, for the first time, we are talking publicly about our business. Straight from the new homepage: Notches is a free, open, universal platform for reviews. We're building a network of applications, partners and cool tools. Reviews written in any of the network's sites will be part of the Notches system everywhere. All the pieces share a common back-end which handles the heavy lifting. There's a new homepage Platforms...
Dan (Rollman) volunteered to illustrate Colin's new book and submitted this drawing as testament of his talent.