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…
Oct 24
5 Years of Using Twitter – Some Thoughts on That Anniversary…
It was five years ago today that I started using Twitter as what would come to be known as "@danyork". October 24, 2006. I remember the date purely because "10/24" in the US way of writing dates is an über-geeky…
Oct 24
150 Years Ago Today, the USA Got Wired!
A great article in the San Francisco Examiner today about the completion, 150 years ago today, of the transcontinental telegraph here in the United States: 150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA I think "a primitive Internet" might…
Oct 24
The Incredibly Tedious Monotony of Chemotherapy
Today is my wife’s second (of four) chemotherapy appointments. She is sitting right now at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at the Cheshire Medical Center here in Keene, NH, with an IV of toxic drugs flowing in to her. Many friends have contacted us/her wishing her all the best today… hoping it all goes well… relaying that they are thinking/hoping/praying all the best for her. All of which is VERY much appreciated. The truth, though, is that today is really not bad. Today is really just incredibly… well… monotonous. Boring. Tedious. Whatever word you want to pick. This has been…
Oct 24
Pondering All The Strange (Chinese?) Accounts Joining My Email Newsletter List…
Has anyone else operating an email mailing list noticed subscriptions pouring in over the past few months from strange email accounts? I have been amazed – and I can’t for the life of me understand WHY this is going on….
Oct 21
Roger Ebert’s Scary Examples of Writing From Current Journalism Students
Um, this is SCARY… (the writing, not the politicians, although admittedly I find some of their ideas scary, too…) Can we please have some grammar? … and maybe some coherent sentences? Please? If you found this post interesting or useful,…
Oct 20
My Rant: Who Are We Building RTCWEB/WebRTC For? Telephony Developers or Web Developers?
Yesterday morning I did something I haven’t done in eons. Many years, probably. (I can’t remember.) I fired off a "rant" on an IETF mailing list. I’ve been a huge proponent of the "RTCWEB/WebRTC" work going on in the "RTCWEB"…
