Would your kids like to try out the sport of curling? Did they see it on the Olympics and thought it looked cool? Or did you see it on the Olympics and think it might be something fun for your kids to try? (Or are you a "youth" reading this post and are interested yourself?) If so, the Petersham Curling Club is holding a Youth Curling Open House this coming Saturday, November 5, 2011, from 1-3pm. Anyone with interest is welcome to attend. The Petersham Curling Club has had a great youth curling program and is now looking to let…
Oct 28
What Would Be Really Cool Is If Google+ Ripples Had…
… some way to search through a large Ripple to find a name (like yours, if you shared the post), so that you could see where that person was in the big giant picture. For instance, in this massive Ripple…
Oct 28
Klout’s Other Major Fail: Violating Historial Integrity/Accuracy
There is a fundamental rule in database theory that when data is recorded in a database, it is "immutable". It cannot be changed. Applications may act on the data, but the integrity of the underlying data is intact. Consider a…
Oct 27
My Wife’s Interview About Breast Cancer In The Keene Sentinel
While I’ve already tweeted, Facebooked and Google+’d about it, I should record here for the sake of completeness that my wife was recently interviewed for what turned out to be an excellent article and photo of her in our local Keene Sentinel newspaper. The article, titled "KEEPING THE FAITH" by columnist Sherry Hughes, is now available online and was on the front page of the Friday, October 21, 2011, dead-tree edition of the Sentinel as part of a feature on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. As she will say herself, this was pushing my wife WAY outside of her comfort zone……
Oct 27
Google+ Ripples Provides Awesome Visualization Of Sharing – Check Out These Examples!
Want to see a VERY cool way of visualizing the spread of a post on Google+ out to other G+ users? Using the new "Ripples" featured announced today, this is very trivial to do. Check out this example (of a…
Oct 26
Is Skype Soon To Release New APIs? Skype Renames Public API And Extends "Plugged into Skype" Partner Program
Today brings two changes from Skype to their developer programs. First, in an effort to bring some clarity to their existing application programming interfaces (APIs), they have renamed the "Skype Public API" to be called the "Skype Desktop API." As…
Oct 26
Running The 2011 Harpoon Brewery Octoberfest 5K…
It was, quite honestly, the hardest 5K race I’ve yet run. Even with the promise of beer and bratwurst at the end, the Harpoon Brewery Octoberfest Race on October 9, 2011, was still a very tough race. Why? One simple reason…. The first mile was pretty much entirely UPHILL! Not "up and down hills"…. not "uphill with breaks now and then"… no, it was just solidly a hill that went on and on at a pretty good angle the whole way. This picture doesn’t really show it, but that’s part of the big hill: The hill was really the worst…
Oct 25
All Mobile Apps Developers (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, etc.) Need To Read Troy Hunt’s Post
As I mentioned on my Disruptive Telephony blog today, this post by Troy Hunt really should be mandatory reading for anyone developing applications for mobile platforms:
Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps
Yes, his post is about Apple’s iOS, but I’m unfortunately rather confident that the results would be …
Oct 25
The Creepy – And Insecure – Side of iOS and Android Apps
Want to see the dark side of mobile apps? Just read this great bit of research from Troy Hunt: Secret iOS business; what you don’t know about your apps As people have noted in the comments, "iOS" (Apple’s operating system…
Oct 25
Sorry, Klout, But I Don’t Care At All About Your "Game"!
In one image, this is perhaps what annoys me most about Klout’s Klout Score metric: Yes, even more than the fact that Beyonce can have a Klout Score of 50 without ever having tweeted (or even knowing if that Twitter…
