Today I came upon an interesting article on hackernews about the first ever text message from some time in the 19th century. It was referring to the telegraph. -> From 1890: The First Text Messages. Actually both of the things I learned stem from that article. The first that I learned is that such a [...]
This marks the first in what I hope to make a quick daily note on this blog. As an exercise in learning something every day and considering that people tend to remember things much better when writing them down, I will take a few minutes every evening to write the two things I have learned [...]
First thing’s first: I hate IDE’s. Second thing’s second: I absolutely suck at design. You can see proof of the first by … well hmm … I’m not sure I can find a blog post where I cry about the aches and pains an IDE forces upon me right now, but I’m sure if you’ve ever talked [...]
Everyone can probably agree that marketing on twitter is quite prolific to say the least. That there are a bunch of people marketing. That there are almost more brands using it as there are people. Many people have a personal account and two, three, four brand accounts … you know, because that one side project [...]
Two days ago I complained about not being able to brainstorm under the shower because there is nowhere to jot down my thoughts … I tend to think a lot better when I can scribble somewhere. Quite a few of you suggested I use something called a “wax pencil“. Yesterday I visited a nearby art supply store, [...]
The first thing I learned is that dry erase markers don’t work under the shower. It gets too steamy and awesome … I’m going to have to find a better solution for efficient shower brainstorming. Some sort of water resistant marker that works on tiles but can be erased without too big a hassle. tl;dr [...]
The drink/coffee meetings resulting from my post about coming to Palo Alto have started happening. It’s great fun meeting new people and getting a feel for the local community and entrepreneurial scene. Certainly a great place to be for meeting cool people and hackers. Invariably, though, the conversation comes up to a point where they [...]
It is the middle of the night. Everyone is asleep. And I just spent ten minutes laying on the concrete floor in the backyard of our house in Palo Alto. Just looking at the stars. It felt surprisingly fitting. tl;dr –> Always seeing ways to improve things and knowing you’ll never get to improve them [...]
Two weeks ago I moved to a different continent and I have to say, the biggest culture shock was my very own twitter stream. It’s still the same stream, but with a 9 hours different timezone everything is so new and shiny and weird and strange and it feels like I don’t know anybody! And [...]
A couple of days ago Apple released the GM version of OS X Lion to developers. Yesterday I finally got around to installing it and trying it out. It often happens that this is the final version of a new OS that ends up on consumer’s hard drives, but I don’t think that’s going to [...]
