Ok, so after running Extendy for 2 weeks on this blog I’ve swapped in Wibiya. Functionally similar but Wibiya just feels a bit cleaner and faster. Not that I have all that many visitors giving me feedback, but I’ll report back in another week with my findings.
The French Anti-Doping Agency, AFLD, is again embarrassing itself and distracting the cycling world from racing and and clean sport. Why? Because Lance is back and he “insulted” the French authority (but apparently not the tester himself).
My take is that although Lance may have violated a rule about staying in sight once a test is requested the tester didn’t object and the guy was from the lab, the whole dust-up is more about trying to discredit Lance again sell more newspapers. His tests were all negative and the only violation was a taking a shower (which the tester didn’t get to watch). AFLD really wants to open hearings against Lance over this? They want to ban him from racing the Tour, or at least piss him off enough to get him to change his mind. Look out though, because the more pissed he gets the better he’ll race.
Read the full story from VeloNews here.
It feels like I got a bit lucky perhaps, but the folks at the Genius Bar at the Boulder, CO 29th st Apple Store earned rockstar status yesterday.
My MBP started acting strange on Saturday morning out of no where. The keyboard and trackpad started intermittently repsonding, or not responding at all. I even got two kernel panics after hitting keys repeatedly. It was pretty odd and I figured it was a firmware problem so I rebooted a few times, zapped the PRAM, etc. Nothing worked so I gave up for a few hours.
I managed to get a 3PM Genius Bar appt and within 20 minutes of sitting down we figured out it was either hardware or firmware but the firmware could not be upgraded or flashed cause it was already up to date. I left the laptop with them and they replaced my top deck (the top of the laptop that has the trackpad built in). Luckily they had a spare at the store…and the root problem wasn’t the keyboard (which they didn’t have in stock).
I got a call around 7pm that it was fixed. Same day fix, a few hours really. The person I was working with knew I couldn’t be w/o this ‘puter for even a day so she made it happen. Cost me $0 since the MBP is under warranty.
As a bonus, I brought in my leopard DVD which wasn’t reading properly in a few machines and they replaced the DVD with new media w/o hassle.
Awesomeness…
I was tagged by David Duey to list 8 things people may not know about me…
I’m now tagging Todd Vernon, Micah Baldwin, Seth Levine, and Brandon Harper.
new winter gloves are iPhone and touch-screen friendly
Just came across these gloves on WWD and have to say I have run into this problem living here in Colorado and being an iPhone user. We are truly in the digital age when even winter gloves have to be made tech-toy compatible.
Today will our last day working out of “the bunker” – the Techstars space in downtown Boulder. Partly sad to be leaving the 10 Mbps pipe and the constant entertainment provided by Socialthing!, but pretty excited to be moving to our own space!
Here I am again in front of the computer after midnight and I guess my bio clock has adjusted because it doesn’t even feel late to me anymore.
We’ve been cranking hard at Filtrbox every day and night for the last two weeks getting ourselves ready (reasonably) for VCIR and the launch of the new site (which is about an hour away!).
Big week for Filtrbox – our 4th hire, new site going up, VCIR pitch, and one more announcement I don’t want to spoil here…
We are having fun too – there is something about working your ass off and seeing the results each day. Reminds me of the JustOn days a bit…
“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.”
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AppleInsider | Google iPhone usage shocks search giant
Note: This is significant for a few reasons. One it confirms a long running suspicion that the gatekeeper to explosive mobile internet usage is the USER EXPERIENCE, not the network or access speed. The fact there is a real browser in there, and google search is the default search engine has a lot to do with it. Jut wait until the 3G phones come out. The other big thing here is that it validates mobile search and mobile commerce will happen as soon as the UX catches up on more platforms.
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