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156 days ago
I wrote my first post for the official Windows Live Wire blog. The topic is privacy, of course, specifically choosing who can send you stuff on Windows Live. I hope to write more entries soon. Stop the insanity: Choose who can send you invitations and private messages http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!41178.entry Check it out! I spearhead!177 days ago
Bing is really awesome - I'm impressed. Check out the Wall Street Journal Review: Microsoft's Bing Yields Results - WSJ.com I've been using Bing for more than two weeks now, and this search engine really did retrieve on-target, useful information on the first try. But what I like best about it is that it does so in a user-friendly manner that looks and feels more inviting than Google.
185 days ago
A few friends have gotten their first iPhone in the last week and I thought I’d list my current favorite iPhone apps (besides Text, Mail, Calendar, Phone). Useful apps, in order of how much I use them: Facebook mBox Mail – for Hotmail/Live Mail Listomni – this is how I manage my life! I have 200+ tasks prioritized which keeps me focused and not overwhelmed. The grocery list is worth the price of admission: it remembers what I shop for, knows where to find things, and it makes it super easy to shop Mint.com – money management and budgeting. Amazing. Accuweather and The Weather Channel – Accuweather is pretty accurate Tweetie – my favorite Twitter app Yelp – This comes in handy often – I check it to see the best restaurant/shopping/repair place nearby and I write reviews that feed out to Windows Live and Facebook Urbanspoon – A fun way to find restaurants Wikipanion - Wikipedia BigOven - Recipes MyNetDiary – Food, Weight, Exercise tracking Pandora – internet ...
210 days ago
Until 2001, best-selling author David Sedaris wrote all of his work on a typewriter, pecking with one finger. He reluctantly started using a MacBook to write and only last June used the Internet for the first time. He admitted that writing on a computer was more efficient. On the typewriter he often wrote to fit gaps he'd whited out thinking, "What can I write that will fit in that space?" He used to type pages over and over, "If it's a good enough word you should be willing to type it 10 times." Being that deliberate about his craft was so inspiring to consider. It reminded me of Malcolm Gladwell talking about needing to put in 10,000 hours in order to master something. And Scott Berkun who says in The Myths of Innovation that innovation is a product of having many many ideas. That's one of the reasons I think digital photography is so exciting – because marginal costs are now 0 you can take 1000 pictures and a handful are bound to ...
262 days ago
Headed to SXSW Interactive tomorrow – I’m very excited. I’m from Austin so it’s actually a vacation and I’ll be down there for a week and a half to visit the family and play in the sun as well. This is the weather here today in Redmond and I need a vacation! If you are as overwhelmed as I am by the almost 400 panels, here’s my Excel spreadsheet that I used to sort and filter. http://cid-989d470165883d80.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/SXSWi Unfortunately it’s not up to the minute accurate (copied from http://sxsw2009.sched.org/ last night) but it’s a good way to get a baseline. And if you get a free afternoon, here’s my list of swimmin holes that are fairly close to the city. http://maps.live.com/?v=2&encType=1&cid=989D470165883D80!7002 tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/asmwuo Say hi if you see me there!
