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Things are getting busy

With Jennifer and a houseful of stuff finally in town, we’ve got our unpacking work cut out for us. For better or worse, Vidoop is currently marching toward our next big product wave before the end of September. Overall, I’d say things are going really well right now, with our technology deliverables mostly ready to [...]

We made it

Made it to Tulsa last night right around midnight. My “Where you at?” tool wasn’t quite as exciting to follow along with as I hoped it would be–we spent most of Day 2 in the mountains of Utah with terrible cellular reception, and then on Day 3, we were on I-40 the whole day so [...]

Where you at?

I’ve got our “where you at?” map up. Check it out. More features to come over the course of the trip.

Already got an update…

Jennifer got stopped by the State Patrol. Passed a cop going 82 in a 70. He must think she’s cute–she got off with a warning.

And they’re off!

Jennifer and I are finally on the road from Seattle (Bellevue) to Tulsa, OK. In usual form, it took until 1:00 before we were on the road. Also in usual form, we were up until 2am the night before the cross-country drive. Jennifer points out that we got tons of good stuff done at the [...]

Frontier airlines

Frontier Airlines is right when they say "it’s a whole different animal". They apparently stopped accepting cash on flights and will now only take credit cards for alcohol, DirecTV, or movie purchases. Also, the Captain called the other pilot his Co-Captain, which is a fine title, I suppose, but it sounds a little like their [...]

Craig’s List, meet OpenID

I finally got around to posting a listing on Craig’s List about a week ago. It had one of the simplest identity mechanisms I’ve ever seen. Instead of having to create an account, all I had to do before Craig’s List considered me fully introduced was to provide an email address. A magic link was [...]

Re-discovered a bug from a previous project

My current project (http://myvidoop.com) had a bug earlier where the user agent string from IE on my home computer is extremely long and causes the web site to behave incorrectly. I had the same problem when I was working on Live Image Search. In the case of Image Search, the long connection string would trigger [...]

Amazing mouse

Absolutely incredible new mouse: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=085

One tiny little letter

"unbeatable" and "unbearable" differ by one tiny little letter lexicographically, and by a whole lot more semantically. Sad that Outlook can’t notice the difference…