I had the great pleasure of serving on a panel after a presentation given by PhD candidate and Enterprise 2.0 consultant Agi Horspool at Cal State Fullerton. Following are my notes from Ms. Horspool’s slides and presentation.
Digital Writing: Any Paper, Anywhere
October 23, 2008 by 1 Comment
There are many digital pens out there that convert your handwritten notes and drawings to a digital format for storage and editing. Two that have risen to the top are the Livescribe Pulse and the IOGEAR Digital Scribe.
The Pulse uses a tip-mounted camera to capture the writing and store it into internal memory. From there, it can be plugged into a USB port for transfer of the documents.
The Digital Scribe uses a receiver that captures the writings of the pen. It can be attached directly into a USB port while writing or stored and transferred later.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 – Talking Points
October 6, 2008 by Leave a Comment
I received the following talking points via BIA OC, that summarize the recently past bill, today from Gregory S. Brown with the NAHB Governmental Affairs office.
How to Promote a Local Event
September 23, 2008 by 11 Comments
This post takes a look a both the strategy and the tactics for promoting local events: First I discuss some general conventions regarding promoting events, then I elaborate on specific tactics and tools. The goal of this post is to serve as a checklist for anyone that needs to promote a local event.
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BaseCamp Just Became Much More Usable
September 7, 2008 by 1 Comment
One of my biggest complaints with BaseCamp is the inability to add a description to milestones easily. You can work around that problem by creating a message after you create your milestone, then attach that message to the milestone. Far too many steps! I want to be able to quickly add the description without all of the extra steps.
While I still cant add a description directly from the milestone creation screen, BaseCamp has just made it much easier to attach a description.
To Google: Apology Accepted
August 27, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Today I received an email from Google apologizing for the outages relating to their Google Apps suite, which I use as part of my core infrastructure. I was not actually effected by the outages, but I did hear about them on various podcasts and blogs. I find their solution to the issue to be fair and I feel confident in the continued use of their service. Following is a copy of the email they sent me.
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A Ten Point Formula for Success by President Lyndon Johnson
August 19, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Dr. David Schwartz, author of “The Magic of Thinking Big
Increase Productivity in Microsoft Windows by Using Virtual Desktops
August 14, 2008 by 1 Comment
One of the productivity features I miss most when leaving my Ubuntu environment for Windows Vista 64-bit is multiple (virtual) desktops. After searching high and low, I finally found a solution that best emulates my beloved Ubuntu desktop.
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Running Django on Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit
August 5, 2008 by 2 Comments
If you are interested in creating a local development environment for Django and you are running Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit, this guide is for you! Following are step by step instructions.
Del.icio.us Design Update
July 31, 2008 by 7 Comments
Del.icio.us is a must have bookmarking tool for me. The main reason I use it primarily for my “real” bookmarks is its simplicity and ease of use. My biggest complaint is that I’ve not yet found a good way to use it on my Windows Mobile 6 based phone.
We’ll, today, it appears that a long awaited design refresh finally happened. Screen shots are after the jump.