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Macworld Spoilers Suck

January 14, 2008 – 9:49 pm

Tomorrow I’m taking the day off work and heading to Macworld at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Yup, that’s right, I’m taking the day off work. So you get the hint that I:
1. Like going to Macworld
2. Enjoy surprises
I really look forward to “the new thing” being introduced and gawked at by the geek masses. [...]

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10 days with the iPhone

August 13, 2007 – 12:17 am

So I’ve now had an iPhone for 10 days. Time for a report. At this point, I’m not sure I have anything to say that hasn’t been said, but I’ll give it whirl anyway.
The Loves
For starters, it is simply amazing to have a phone that actually functions the way I expect it to. Most of [...]

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Backpacking Catalina Island

April 9, 2007 – 12:22 am

I just returned from a wonderful backpacking trip across Catalina Island, part of The Channel Islands off the southern coast of California. We had an amazing time and it was quite relaxing, even though the trip involved nearly 30 miles of walking over 4 days.

Before we left for the trip, we spent plenty of time with Google Earth, planning our trip against visible trails and other map features. This got me thinking about a different way to present the trip to friends and family when we returned. Without much experience using Google Earth, I was pleasantly surprised to learn this morning that it is quite easy to create a “tour” in Google Earth. Not only that, using simple HTML, you can add photos and links to the tour. This was exactly what I was hoping for, so I got started on it this afternoon and with a few hours of work, I have prepared a simple tour of our entire trip. Being such a visual person, this makes me incredibly giddy because it allows you to see our trip photos within their geographic context. It is like an interactive globe! First a few details about the trip.

By Rob | Also posted in Vacation | Comments (2)

Blogging over IM

March 25, 2007 – 5:23 pm

It is a rather strange thing to blog from your chat client. However, with IMified, you can. You can also have reminders, todo lists, post to Twitter (which Twitter already lets you do, but the service is down alot), and much more. I pretty impressed that you no longer need to actually visit the web [...]

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