Twitter has implemented a cool new feature called “tracking“, which I am officially dubbing “twacking” because it sounds dirty. Basically on your phone or IM Twitter account you can send the message track <topic> and anytime any Twitter message appears on the network with that string in it, it gets sent to you. So I […]
My new cell phone
I’m lucky enough to have a company cell phone, and my lease is up on my current phone, the one with the cracked display panel. So, I’m getting a new one. I opted to pick up an LG Cherry Chocolate. I know it isn’t the sexy geek gadget du jour, like an iPhone or a […]
Final Fantasy VII remixes
I grabbed the torrent this weekend for the entire Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, the latest OCRemix community game music project. I’ve only gotten through CD2, but it is a phenomenal album so far. Far surpassing Chrono Symphonic, which I found to be fairly dull and repetitive. But this FF7 music kicks and […]
Babies everywhere!
So, while we were all busy congratulating Robert Scoble on the birth of his baby Milan–likely the first ever Twittered birth–another baby was being born. My friends Travis and Mandy had their first child born at 9:45 this morning. I got to see the little guy briefly over my lunch break today. His name is […]
Mooncakes are Asia’s fruitcakes
I have a co-worker who has had the opportunity to travel to our Singapore office. One of the foods he mentioned as being a particularly tasty treat while in the country was some dessert dish called a “mooncake“. Just last week, we had one of our Singapore office IT staff visit the US for some […]
Everyone’s upgrading their technology!
Man, first Google adds search to Google Reader (something I’ve been begging for since I began using GReader two years ago), and now, Meebo adds file transfer — something I never even wanted, but I’m happy to take now that it’s available. Thanks for upgrading the technology I use every day (for free!)!
Does Netscape’s death foretell Mahalo’s impending doom?
So, the Netscape homepage digg clone is finally being killed off. Well, to be honest, the way it sounds, it isn’t being “killed”, per se. Evidently the users like the concept of social news, they just want it off their Netscape homepage. It might be moved elsewhere within the AOL network, but Riley sounds skeptical […]
Sheldon Wii comic
Dave Kellett demonstrates why I love Sheldon with a great reference to the Wii in today’s comic. I know I’ve broken several unspoken rules about thumbnailing giveaway panels of webcomics, but even though this is the “punchline” panel, the preceding three panels are even better than the last.
Food and video games
Our IT department is hosting a member of our Asia office this week for some cross-training. Tonight we’re all going out together to a place in Des Moines called InPlay. Bar and grill food and video games. You can’t really beat that combination.
New webcomic posted today
I know that I “retired” from webcomickry over at Evil Avatar Comics, but I just can’t stay away. I have an itch to create poorly drawn comics, and I find that I can only do that in the relative safety of the Evil Avatar community. So, I created a new comic, called Metroid Concepts in […]