Can anyone give me a good reason why I should continue posting to Livejournal.com (not that I really have been anyway)? My primary creative energy is going into MeetAtThePig.com and Six Hour Startup right now. If you want to try and track me on a day-to-day level, you can follow me on Twitter.

Has anyone heard about this Facebook site? I signed up for an account last night. I think this is going to be really popular.

Up until now, there has been no comprehensive resource for all the cool tech events going on around Seattle. Stuart Maxwell and I have decided to rectify this by creating MeetAtThePig.com. We're chasing down and posting the most interesting events we find. Hopefully in the near future, we'll also be writing about regular events - meetups, user ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a service that would send a text message of the day's weather to my phone every morning? This seems like a terribly obvious thing, and I can't believe it doesn't exist. The closest thing I got from a brief Google search was AccuWeather Alert, but there's not much flexibility there.

The idea reminds me a bit of an old post by ( Read more... )

For those of you that don't know, I've been working on a contract-to-hire basis at Zillow.com for the last six weeks. On Tuesday (technically Monday) after New Year's, I start as a full-time employee. My official title is Build and Deployment EngineerIf you're working in downtown Seattle, and interested in getting together for lunch, then leave me ( Read more... )

I'm going to be at Ignite Seattle! on Thursday night, a local geek-night sort of event being put on by O'Reilly's and Make Magazine. I'll actually be giving a lightning talk on an idea that came up during the last Mind Camp - Community Works for Geeks. That's assuming that I actually finish the presentation first, of course. Should be a very ( Read more... )

Lucy Elizabeth Martenstein was born on Sunday, October 1st at 10:26 p.m., weighing in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces. The whole family is recovering well, though Sarah and I are both a bit tired.

There don't seem to be any low-cost, easy-maintenance inventory systems for a small business owner / retailer. There must be a ton of folks out there (like my brother) who are opening shops where they are the sole employee, and they are having to track all of their retail stock by pen-and-paper. They have neither the time nor the energy to set up ( Read more... )

Nathan Myhrvold (former CTO of Microsoft) appears to be stealing a page from Charlie Stross's Manfred Macx stories. Myhrvold's new company, Intellectual Ventures, is brainstorming and patenting ideas, as well as possibly buying up existing patents, to corner the market on the next generation of technology. John Robb has some interesting commentary ( Read more... )

I didn't realize that BarCamp San Francisco is happening this weekend. I know of at least one geek attending, and blogging the event. Looks interesting - I'll try to keep an eye on the proceedings and see if there are some ideas worth stealing for Mind Camp 3.0.