This week is crazy; something happening every day to bust up my schedule, and with layers of crisis on top of that. Cannot complain because there are exciting opportunities afoot too, but it's frustrating not to be able to commit much time to implementation, especially since I still feel like I just got home from abroad ( Read more... )

Hello, my social network ( Read more... )

Cool Planbeast news: Earlier this week I wrote the producers of one of the games that inspired me to create Planbeast in the first place, saying, "Hey, your game helped inspire Planbeast. We should work together, and I have an idea how to do it." Conversation follows, and reception to this proposal has so far proven a complete success: not only are ( Read more... )

Spent the greater part of the afternoon tuning Google AdWords campaigns. I have four distinct ad-groups running now, covering the spread of (local | national) and ("I'm a Perl hacker" | "I'm a software consultant ( Read more... )

On Monday daerr and cthulhia joined me for a larkish lunch at Diva. The bill was covered by a Ameriprise, a big ol' financial-consulting outfit who sponsors local put-your-business-card-in-the-bucket-and-get-a-free-lunch dealies. I allowed them to reel me into a free consultation later in the week, on the why-not principle ( Read more... )

Had a decent time at Post Mortem last night; I think I'm going to make a monthly habit of it. An open but passively advertised event (I honestly don't recall how I originally heard about it), it's much less crowded and stressful than certain other pub-based nerdly events I could name. Arguably its industry focus helps keep the number of attendees ( Read more... )

X is chugging along nicely. The skeleton of the logic library is complete, and I'm now fleshing it out through writing a whole mess of unit tests, making sure all the muscles twitch just so. It's hard to imagine a time when I didn't make a habit of test-driven development, even though I started only a couple of years ago. Seeing the panel of lights ( Read more... )

Holy crap!! You all have to check out this press release that chocorisu stumbled across. It's describing a pep rally for an apparently Amwayish patent-medicine company's "sales associates", and is filled with gems like
"I've been in network marketing for 17 years, and I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," said Jimmy "the Butcher" Smith from ( Read more... )

I launched the Appleseed Blog. Yes, another blog from me. But really, running a technology business's website without a blog attached is a poor idea these days.

It look so long because getting Mason and Movable Type to play together was a little rough, but (with daerr's assistance) I got it going, and ended up learning a lot about all technologies ( Read more... )

I don't have all my docs yet to confirm the final figure, but it looks like I'm going to come up with around 10 grand to cover my 2007 taxes, after business-expense deductions.

This is the final ouchie from the trouble I got into last year, but it doesn't make it any less ouchy. At least I know I can survive it.

Yes, I contend that ouchie is the ( Read more... )