I represented my team to accept the Webby award we won for Best in Sports Mobile Apps. Here’s the video of the five word speech I gave when accepting the award.
I flipped the switch early, but I have been working on moving this site so I can use it properly again for a while. Lots of broken links and unfinished business, but it’s better than the site that hadn’t been updated in two years. Bear with me, I will get there a little at a time.
You start to lose track of the days after a while, when you become a parent. I'm only into my sixth week with the little guy, but looking at this picture just now, it's amazing how much he's grown already. It's so striking it made me emotional.
I’ve been working on a new “of the week” project since the beginning of the year. At the end of last year, I was tired of taking a picture every day, as much as I enjoyed the 365 Project. I didn’t want to commit to the same daily level of things this year, partially because of the impending birth of the baby (codenamed Smallz) and partially because I was just tired of being a servant to the project.
At first, I was thinking that I would try and do a single picture each week, but really work on the technique and quality of each picture. Then I was thinking that I would do that and start a 365 for the first year of Smallz' life. (I still plan on doing that.) When our January issue of Bon Appetit arrived, it had a recipe for a Bahn Mi sandwich that I really was interested in making. I ended up making it, and taking pictures while doing it. Making these sandwiches gave me the idea to make something new each week, and learn how to cook and take pictures of food better while doing it. Here’s a collection of the recipes I have made so far.
In the first nine weeks, I have learned that it’s not always easy to find something I want to make. I have also learned that I know far less about cooking than I realized. A lot of my inspiration so far has come from Serious Eats and Tasty Kitchen. Both are awesome resources for the home cook.
This is more than a test post. Well, actually, it’s a test post because I haven’t been able to update this site due to some server problems. I am working on changing hosting companies. I need to do this for two reasons, first I am paying way too much for what I am getting with the current hosting company. Second, I have been updating this site using Blogger since 2001, and Blogger are phasing out support for ftp updating. So if you aren’t hosted on their infrastructure, you really can’t use their tools. This is lame for all manner of reasons, but I think it’s the kick in the ass I needed to get this site going again in some meaningful manner. Current working theory is moving this site and all the other domains associated with it over to Media Temple. This is time consuming, not because of the moving of files, but because of the moving of all the domains. It means a lot of phone calls, and I want to make sure that I don’t lose them. So just a test for the moment.
I am happy to announce, on our first anniversary, that Sue and I are expecting, and due March 18th, 2010. We couldn't be more happy, although Sue wasn't exactly pleased as punch she couldn't drink wine in France.
I have been primarily working on iPhone development for the last couple of months. It's a very different product space than the other consumer products I have worked on over the last couple of years. I recently ordered the stencil to the left to help with product paper prototyping for next NBA season.
It’s been an amazing year in my life, and this blog has suffered as a result. I don’t feel guilty about it at all, but I am sure I will wish I had more writing from in between some of these large gaps in time.
Since the last post here, let's see, some things have happened in my life. I got married, that was in September. I turned forty, that was in October. We launched League Pass Broadband, the product I had been working on since June, that was in late October/early November. We also adopted a lovely little pug, named Puka, in November. Each of these things deserve multiple posts here. I learned so much this fall. I have so much to be thankful for, and every day I hope I don't find some way to screw it up.
I don't think I will mothball this site, but I am much more active on Facebook, and Twitter, both of which are linked from this page. It is likely that I will update more here now that I have broken the seal, but you will get a lot more volume over at each of those places.
Some great music to check out from Ian. The Ratatat remix of Party and Bullshit is the most listened to item in my whole iTunes library. I am checking out the rest now.
Chandler 1.0 ships Interesting. I am wondering how it compares to the ones I use. Email integration seems like a great idea that other ones don't have.
Datacase Launches. I still maintain that this is something that the iPhone should do natively.
I’m updating Twitter, when it decides to be up, more than this blog right now. Between my guild’s pursuit of finishing Sunwell, my work on this NBA project I am on, and getting married in September, I have very little time to write, even though I want to. Today’s winner links worth sharing:
Sad to hear that Randy Pausch passed away. As I have said to anyone who would listen, you should read The Last Lecture, and watch the video. Make sure you have tissues around, I cried more than once.
I am going to be up in Manhattan next weekend. Ping me if you want to grab a cup of coffee, or a bite.
Turning 40 by SBJ. I met him at SXSW this year. He was scarfing down a muffin inside of Starbucks in an effort to get to his keynote on time. Nice guy. Messy muffin speed eater.
Keynote-esque Presentation Editor on the Web By itself, not super exciting. However, read the post for this "The most amazing thing about this is happening under the hood: the developer wrote a library that abstracts browser rendering engines using Canvas, SVG and Flash (on a per-need basis) into a unified language – Objective J which is – as the name suggests – a mapping from Objective C to JavaScript." Want.
