Blog Index

  • Quick comments live from F8

    The Facebook F8 conference is underway and its quite the collection of folks.  There is twittering, blogging, live video streaming all happening at the same time.  It was a bit insane.  More people were looking down at their laptops typing than actually watching the speaker talk. Here are just a couple of thoughts I had… Read more

  • Cannot upgrade iPhone to 2.0 Firmware

    I just tried to upgrade to the new iPhone 2.0 but couldn’t.  There are reports that its “bricking” older generation iPhones.  I’m wondering if they took it down to fix some bugs. Oh well, I’ll just try again later. Read more

  • iPhone Apps Coming out Soon!

    Remember that old web based Flash game called “The Penguin Swing“?  It sure did waste a few hours of my life back in the day.  Well, they have come out with a Viking version for the iPhone leveraging the tilt-sensing abilities of your iPhone or iTouch. Ok, so its stupid but there are some interesting… Read more

  • Registered for Facebook F8 ’08

    I’ve taken a moment to sign up for F8 ’08.  Unfortunately, I was not able to attend last year because of a business trip to Europe but this time I’m in town.  A number of my friends and ex-coworkers will be in attendance representing their new companies.  It will be interesting to see what they… Read more

  • Facebook Gives Me Love On My Birthday

    I would like to personally thank Facebook for making me feel special on my birthday.  I received over 50+ Happy Birthday notifications via Facebook.  Some were friends, others were acquaintances that I had not spoken to in years and a few from complete strangers. Facebook Killer Feature: Providing users at least one happy birthday wish… Read more

  • Are we still using sandbags?

    As I watch the devastating floods in the mid-west, I can’t help but ask myself, are we still using sandbags in the year 2008? Have we not been able to innovate and come up with a better approach to blocking water during a flood situation? Below is a photo from the “Great Flood of 1965”. … Read more

  • Go find me a restaurant …

    Here is an interesting little company called UrbanSpoon which at the core of it looks like a variant of Yelp.  They provide community based restaurant recommendation and reviews.  Recently, they released an iPhone application that will randomly find you a restaurant based on your geographic location.  Or, what could be described as location based Yelp.… Read more

  • Dipity Timeline Widget

    As I was poking around the Google YouTube API researching a side project, I stumbled upon this cool timeline widget by Dipity.  There seems to be an endless amount of these “widget companies” that are worth much more than the name of their space leads you to believe (Slide, RockYou, etc). Dipity caught my attention… Read more

  • My thoughts on Yahoo/Microsoft …

    My opinion is that I’m tired of reading about this damm Micro-hoo non-merger and the misadventures of captain Wang Yang.  (Did anyone notice that Jerry is appropriately titled “Captain Yahoo” on the corporate website.) Please end the insanity and bring this story to a conclusion.  Millions of trees, gallons of ink and countless blogger hours… Read more

  • Leadership team bio …

    As with any startup, you never get the time to do the little things. I’ve been with Abaca Technology as their Director of Engineering for more than six months already and I just got a chance to write my bio for the leadership page. I think my focus has been in the right area because… Read more

  • Apptio comes out from hiding …

    A number of my old team members from the Mercury Diagnostics product line, which was eventually folded into HP Software went off and founded Apptio.  They describe themselves as: Apptio is the leading provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio’s IT Cost Transparency solutions provide greater visibility into the cost, utilization and operations of… Read more

  • Apple Store Down for Announcements?

    It seems the Apple store is down for what I’m assuming to be updates that will come out of the WWDC announcement this morning. I’m no crazy Apple fanatic but you have to hand it to Steve Job’s ability orchestrate a marketing event. He’s very good at what he does. Let’s see what he says… Read more

  • WWDC Starts Tomorrow

    Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2008 starts tomorrow and the freak Apple fans are running up the rumors about the 3G iPhone, iPhone embedded GPS. iPhone with video conferencing or Mac Fusion. And of course, everyone is afraid that Twitter will go down which means people will need to actually call each other. Sucks. I don’t… Read more

  • Twitter Isn’t So Bad

    Ok, so I admit that I didn’t really understand Twitter when it came out. It seemed pretty dumb. Well, after playing around with it for the past two weeks, I’ve come to appreciate the unified communication aspect of the platform. You really need to look beyond the guy who tweets, “I’m sitting on couch eating… Read more

  • CNN Breaking News! Wait …

    I received this email/text message from my CNN Breaking News Alert @ 3:15am this morning.  Seriously, they woke someone up at 3:15am to send this?  In California, we knew that 3 months ago. Or should I react, “Haha, now you know how I feel!” reply-to newseditor@mail.cnn.com to TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@ema3lsv06.turner.com date Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:15… Read more