Got everything moved over to my new host MediaTemple. All is good in the world!
A couple mini projects in the pipeline. First, complete redesign of flipnode.com. Second, build a minimal layout for this WordPress blog. Both of these projects I’m hoping to get done in the next week.
Our team made it to the end, the new site is live: http://rolexawards.com/.
More on it in a couple days!
Well, I complain about it constantly with colleages, I rag on friends who use it. Basically, I never really got it. Yes folks, I’m talking about Twitter.
I was sitting on the bus on Saturday and decided to install a Twinkle on my iPhone, since I’ve been hearing good things about it. As a result of that installation I’ve also set up a twitter account (flipnode) to play around with it.
Before this, I could never understand why Twitter was making so much noise in terms of buzz on the web. After spending a couple days posting to it when I have nothing else to do, I think I can learn to love it. At it’s very core (to me anyways), you’re essentially sending text messages to the Internet at large. At first it seems bizarre, sending messages out into the series of tubes we all know and love, not knowing who will read it, or where it will get quoted; but once you get past that I think it’s a pretty awesome thing. I find it amazing that a random post can spawn a discussion between a whole bunch of potentially random users. Talk about social at it’s finest.
Bottom line, I totally dig it. Huzzah microblogging!
So I’ve been putting off sorting through the 800 odd photos that I took over the seven days that a colleague and I were in New York City for hands on training on a new piece of software that Critical Mass had purchased to use on some upcoming projects. The guys at RedDot Solutions did a great job of putting us through training for LiveServer. Coming out of that training, we both felt we came away with a good understanding of what we can accomplish for LiveServer, as well as an added bonus we got some long standing answers for their CMS product that we’ve been mulling over for a while. I’d say it was definitely worth the trip with all that we’ve learned.
As for the photos, skimming through them when I first got back, I’m glad I fired off as many photos as I did. I am by no means a good amature photographer, and it was quite evident when some of the photos ended up being pretty blurry. I also have a bad habit of not checking the camera settings before I go off and take a whole bunch of shots. For example, I had bracketing enabled for a couple dozen shots before I realized that it was on. Of these, 1/3 of them are exposed correctly. I’m going to try and sort through most of them over the weekend, and upload them to my newly “pro-ized” flickr account.