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Lucky

Dec 4, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a comment

The traffic to my site is considerably higher today, no doubt because I was selected as one of the winners of the Xbox drawing over at dooce.com.  Blender, that’s me.  I’ve been hiding online behind the anonymity of ‘blender’ for years, but I guess the cat is out of the bag now. It doesn’t matter now anyway. I only really cared back in the day when I did tech support and participated in our support forums as a tech and as a normal user, that way I could give “unofficial” solutions to problems that weren’t really supported by the company. Anyway, I just wanted to say hi to all the new visitors. I haven’t received my confirmation email about the Xbox yet, but I wanted to drop a thanks in advance to Dooce and Blurb for the opportunity and also thanks for the years of entertainment they have provided.

UPDATE: If any of you are visiting this site to find out if you are the only one that hasn’t received your confirmation email, rest assured that you are not alone.  I’m told that they are looking into it.

UPDATE (12/08/2009):  Confirmation email arrived!

Fall Update

Nov 16, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

What do you mean fall is practically over? I know, I know.  I really haven’t forgotten about the blog.  I was walking to my car last week and it was snowing and I thought, “hey it’s freezing, what happened to all of those nice cool days of fall?”  Then I realized, I’ve worked right through it.  Work has been crazy for the last few months and we’ve still got a few more weeks to go.  Looks like those projects that I’ve been wanting to do before winter aren’t going to get done… oh well.

Since so much time has passed since my last entry, I’ve had a lot of time to think.  I’ve decided that I want to redesign this blog.  I’m just using a template that I found somewhere, and while I like it, it isn’t entirely unique.  I expected that because it is a template, but I think I’d like to do something that’s all my own.  I do have “ideas”.  Don’t expect it anytime soon though, because my ideas are pretty crazy and I don’t really have the time for that right now.

I did also come up with a new idea for an iPhone App.  I’ve already started putting together a prototype for that one.  I’m not going to give away any details on that just yet, but I hope to have that finished up in a month or so, would be sooner if my job would let up a bit.

Anyway, consider the silence broken.

Twitter

Aug 18, 2009 Technology Leave a comment

I was going to write this whole big post about how I never liked or understood Twitter and how I only checked it out because I felt it was part of my responsibility as a web developer to keep on top of the trends of what is currently popular on the Internet and blah blah blah…

I won’t bore you with any of that.  The short version is, I didn’t understand it then but now I’m a fan, simply because a lot of the time I don’t have enough to say to fill up a whole blog post anyway.  Since a Twitter post is limited to 140 characters, it forces everyone to just get to the point and I like that.  I really like that.  I added my Twitter feed to this site a while ago for those of you that don’t have a Twitter account. For those of you that do, follow me here: http://twitter.com/rminnick