I’ve read 32 books so far this year. You can see their covers above. I <3 Detective Fiction Once thing you’ll notice right away is that I love crime/detective fiction and that my current two favorite authors in this genre are Michael Connelly and Laura Lippman. I’m working my way through Connelly’s Harry Bosch series …
Leaving Google: Moving email and calendar to Zimbra
Note: This post is part of a series of posts I’m writing about migrating from Google to other service providers. Read Leaving Google: A preface to understand my motivation and goals for this project. Aside from things like online banking and bill-pay, email and calendar are probably the most important aspects to my online life. …
Notes on World Domination Summit 2013
This weekend I attended the third iteration of World Domination Summit (WDS), right here in Portland. I wasn’t sure what to expect from the conference. I bought the tickets several months ago, remembering that I had been interested in attending the previous year when the event was already sold out. Aside from phrases like “remarkable …
Leaving Google: A preface
While I’ve never had all of my internet-eggs in Google’s basket, so to speak, I’ve appreciated many of their services and have become quite dependent on some. I opened my first Gmail account in 2004. I switched from Bloglines to Reader sometime before the former was sold in 2005. My sanity, and probably my wife’s …
Testing from the android app!
Not much to see, just testing.
New glasses
Took a break from World Domination Summit this afternoon to pick up my new pair of glasses from Myoptic. You can’t tell from the photo, but the sides have a tortoise shell pattern. I still love my old frames as well, so those are getting new lens. For the first time ever, my “backup” pair …
Thirty-three
I don’t have a whole lot to say this birthday. It’s a low-key one. Sherri had to work today and we’re both still recovering from last week’s Open Source Bridge. I’m attending to some Mozilla things this morning and then plan to spend the rest of the day relaxing. Yesterday we celebrated by having a …
My summer conference season kicks-off this week with Open Source Bridge
Just a quick post to note that my summer conference season begins this week with Open Source Bridge. If you’re local, or happen to be in Portland this week, please consider joining us. There are still tickets available and we also offer a number of ways to participate for free or at a reduced rate. …