http://deepdarksee.com/blog Misc ramblings along the way... Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:56:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out what the people at Evil Mad Science are doing these days.  "Do it yourself and open source hardware for art, education, and world domination."  Very cool for those that want to tinker with electronics! http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2009/07/evil-mad-science/ OK, I'm out to win this trip to Seoul, and had some fun writing about "The key features of the phone of the future." in 200-300 words for the entry!  I decided to go 'first person' to try to make it accessible.  Here is what I submitted:My new phone connects ... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2009/07/future-phones/ OK, so time to try to walk the talk.  Why should my files, emails, calendar and such be tied to a physical device?  So here's what I'm doing.Files:  I'm using Amazon's S3 cloud storage service along with JungleDisk's virtual disk software.  What does this mean?  All my stuff gets stored ... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2009/03/going-to-the-cloud/ So I'm realizing that keeping status up on FaceBook, and twittering, has taken the place of blog posts for me for the past few months.  Interesting... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2009/03/blogging/ http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/11/this-says-it-all/ "If you think you're the smartest person in the room, you're the fool."  "Sell to one customer.  Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.""Fail fast.  Fire, aim, repeat."and many more great axioms for Web next.0 - at UnstructuredVenturesand the best article I've read in a long time on "what's next on the web" is ... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/10/some-great-gems-in-blog-land-tonight/ I'm very excited to see the mobile site for Moblyng go up (m.moblyng.com from your phone browser, or iPhone)! I first got involved with Moblyng to help them convert and deliver video content to cell phones via SMS and a wap site. Now we just launched a mobile web portal. ... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/07/moblyng/ 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." ... http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/07/whats-new/ [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) http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/05/rockin-out-at-peninsula-school/ "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -- Frank Zappa http://deepdarksee.com/blog/2008/04/a-housemate-in-college-had-every-zappa-album-gonna-start-me-a-dental-floss-farm/