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So it’s been a while. Kathryn and I are hitting the gym 3 times a week and share a personal trainer. She’s off for two weeks at a Spanish language immersion school in Peurto Vallarta next week, and Audrey is off to summer camp as a “CIT.” I’m still doing things for Bones in Motion and Rocket Mobile, but have been spending lots of time with Moblyng on their mobile strategy and build-out. We’re doing interesting things with video to mobile phones, and web sites that adapt to different phone browser capabilities. Some secret stuff that should pop out soon too! BiM was a great ride, but it’s really fun to involved with a fresh new start-up.

I’ve also been looking at what I want to do next as a self funded project. Lots of digging around Marine related resources on the web, and pondering iPhone app opportunities. I’m really pleased, as an early iPhone adapter, that I’ve got all the capabilities of the new phone except the faster network and better GPS. Go Apple!

[These links don't work any more. "Take down request" from the artists!]

Kathryn sings an original song – Fly into the Sun

And K’s band does Cold Cold Heart – their own way!

and Yesterday (ala Beatles)

Last year I wrote an AIM Bot that could respond to informational requests (meeebot if you want to check it out).  I just adapted some of it’s features to work with the TextMarks service.  Check it out!

Send a text from your phone to the short code 41411 with one of these words in the body:  answ (magic 8 ball), fuzzy (a compliment), insp (inspirational quote), insult (well, you know), shudi (should I?), spell (check spelling), thes (thesaurus lookup), weat (weather for a zip code), words (dictionary lookup).

Fun with a phone!  My daughters wrote the compliments, insults, and yes/no answers…

So what’s new? BiM is moving along well. Audrey was a wonderful Alice in Alice in Wonderland, her 8th grade play. She also just started her first non- babysitting job, working the concession stand at Lemos Farm, and was a junior counselor at Wavy Gravy’s Camp Winnarainbow. Kathryn has had a rockin’ summer at Camp Winnarainbow, where she was in a chess tournament, did juggling, performed in “A Mid Summer Night’s Dream”, and was invited into the advanced improv group. She is also enjoying being 12! Leann is liking her job at Applied Bio Systems. I’ve been fooling around with a marine commerce site, and working on an iPhone application that shows tides, weather, waves, and marine advisories (and maybe charts!). I’ve also been really active at the Half Moon Bay Yacht Club, sailing the San Francisco Bay on a Santa Cruz 27, and running the Yacht Club summer youth sailing program. It looks like I’m also part of that new old crowd landing on face book. And hey, aren’t my daughters beautiful???

It’s an amazing place!

Had a fantastic time helping drive a group of 4th graders to their end-of-year camping trip this year. They are on the coast in Half Moon Bay. Check out the TP…and more photos here.

Bulgarian hat (as in euro license plate code) straight from Bulgaria!

This was posted directly from my camera phone using Bloggers new moblog service (well, the part above this paragraph). They did a great job… no effort to set it up, easy to link to an existin blog, and they clean out all the promotional text that Verizon adds to MMS messages (Flickr hasn’t learned that trick yet).

My sweet brother and nephew!


Irreverence is nothing new here!