No question perhaps highlights the frustration of breast cancer than the one I am frequently asked: So how is Lori doing? You see… physically she is doing perfectly fine. At least… she has been doing perfectly fine up until today when they will inject her with various noxious, toxic chemicals to make her worse so that in the end she will theoretically be better. This is the conundrum of early stage breast cancer. There are no physical signs. You are not "sick" in any noticeable way. You feel perfectly fine. In fact, my wife is probably in the best physical…
Sep 25
And So The Waiting Ends – With Chemo…
Well, at least we have an answer. We are no longer stuck in limbo. The results of the testing I mentioned in my last post on my wife’s tumor came back… and unfortunately not with the results we’d hoped for. It turned out that her tumor was slightly more on the aggressive side… and that they best they could estimate was that if she did nothing more there is only a 60% chance she’ll be cancer-free in 10 years. She’s only 43 years old… 10 years is not a long time. … and 60% is not really a great percentage….
Sep 23
The Uncomfortable Awkwardness of Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote
I cringed a lot yesterday. It was a bit painful at times to watch Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote presentation at Facebook’s F8 conference yesterday. Regarding the keynote, much is being written now about Facebook’s new (and very cool) Timeline feature and…
Sep 22
Why Klout Gets a FAIL For Their Notification Emails
These email notifications from Klout get a big, fat FAIL in my book: I should NEVER be REQUIRED to go back to your website to get notifications about your service. You have already interrupted my life by sending me an…
Sep 22
How Meta Can You Get? A Blog Spam Comment About Spam
Loved checking my email this morning and seeing this comment submitted to one of my posts on this blog: Can you recommend a blog comment anti-span service? I’ve basically abandoned my blog because of all the comment spam. The comment…
Sep 20
Skype for iOS/iPhone Vulnerable to Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) Attack
News from the SUPEREVR security blog is that Skype for iOS is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack that allows an attacker to send someone a message and, for instance, capture that user’s address book from their iPhone. The author of the article posted a video that demonstrates the attack: He further states in […]
Sep 19
Final Day of the 2011 FIR Listener Survey – Help Us Guide The Show!
Do you listen to the For Immediate Release Podcast? If so, do you have a few minutes to take the FIR listener survey if you haven’t already done so? The survey is a very important tool to help Shel and…
Sep 19
Starting Work Today at the Internet Society
After some of my tweets today I had friends contacting me in great surprise asking if I had really left Voxeo. Yes, to a certain degree of my own great surprise, I actually did. I started today (Sept 19, 2011) in a brand new role on a brand new project at the Internet Society, based in Reston, VA. I’m still working remotely from my home office in Keene, NH, so that didn’t (and won’t) change. The full story of my job change can be found over on my Disruptive Telephony blog. And yes, with all the other chaos going on…
Sep 19
My FIR Report – Sept 19, 2011 – An Update on My Job Change And Content Strategy
My report into today’s FIR episode #617 was a little different than my usual reports. Instead of an update on the latest technology and trends in social media, I gave a more personal update about my job change to work…
Sep 14
Ch-changes – Taking A New Job At The Internet Society To Join The Fight For The Open Internet
In the end, my impending job change is perhaps best explained by two quotes: this prescient quote from the 1992 film Sneakers: “There’s a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it’s not about who’s got the most…
