Well what kind of blog doesn't have pictures and other personal stuff on it? Here's some pictures from this summer so far... Alex & Ryan at the zoo Ditto Ryan turns 3
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Ever since college, I've had a long term goal of becoming a fiction author. The problem is that while I can crank out words fast, their quality is oh so poor. I'm just not cut out for serious writing. I can be mildly amusing in a pinch but drama, eck. During my senior year of college, I actually started on the first part of the "back story" of the main set of stories I've had in my head. My wonderful aunt agreed to edit them. And so I handed in the first few chapters ...
So tomorrow I'm heading out on a 2 day trip. Blech. I don't know why but I just hate to travel. Well actually, I do know why. I don't like the actual "Travel" portion. If I could just beam to wherever I was going that would be great. Gotta pack up and get ready to go. Over the past several years I've gotten packing down to a science: 2 days: light clothes. No suits. I won't wear a suit when I travel. If a suit is going to make or break a deal, then I don't want to do business with a com...
The nights are getting cooler. The days shorter. The trees are starting to show some color. Summer is almost over. Lots of people say they like the Fall. They think it's a ball. But not me. In the Fall I just don't feel free. Just another month. Just a little more time. I just want to run a bit more in the sun. Then I would really feel fine. I had wanted to go on a holiday. A trip, a jaunt, some time for fun. Just a little more time to be in the sun. Take me back to May. Summer is al...
For the past year I have been blogging about the various things that interest me. If you click on the JoeUser classic link near the top you can see the kinds of things I've talked about over the past year. It's been really fun. But I was distressed by a few things during my blogging: It sometimes felt like blogging is already a clique. A handful of blog sites got all the "glory". Part of my job at Stardock is to analyze the popularity of various websites. So when I applied my techniques ...
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The best part about being an entrepreneur is working with really good talented people. They say you can't choose your coworkers but that's the one perk of being an entrepreneur. And over the past few years, we've put together an outstanding team of developers. I don't mean this as an idle boast but we have some of the best people on earth working together. Years ago, in the OS/2 market days, we had put together a pretty good team too. But it all nearly collapsed when the OS/2 market died. ...
On JoeUser classic no one could even comment on a blog. No matter how obnoxious my opinion was on some topic, no one could come on and say "Hey, you may not like your Mac but at least it's not constantly infected by worm viruses!" or something like that. Now, on the new JoeUser.com, you can. On anonymous comments I do have the right to delete them (so no more "Go back to Russia!" comments <g>) but you don't have to actually create an account now to ...
I'm so far behind on so many things. I also have a bunch of topics to cover. I have a fun article about Hydrogen fuel cells and the problems they have. Short answer: We're not going to have hydrogen fuel cells any time soon. Sorry. The Matrix Revolutions was spectacularly crappy. Shockingly bad. I have two huge projects in front of me to get working on that is on top of all our existing projects. One on the business unit and the other for the games unit. I need to find us a bigger buildin...
Is it me or is the Internet overall very slow today?
...and the #1 reason why Stardock is so successful: Because everyone thinks desktop enhancements are a tiny niche market. When I try to convince the press to cover our software, I am often met with "Do people really use this stuff?" By "stuff" they mean desktop enhancements. Do people really want to change the way Windows looks and feels? Surely, it's just a tiny group of geeks who do this right? Right?? In actuality, desktop enhancements are pretty huge. They jus...
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Little discussed feature about the IBM Thinkpad T40. The Fn-space bar combo will instantly switch the resolution to a the next lower one. this is great when you are browsing the web and want the text nice and big. Just one of the many handy features that makes the Thinkpads rule.
My wife and I and friends played paint ball today. There we were in our camoflauge battling it out. What a work out. I realized something today. I am way WAY out of shape. My wife did remarkably well, especially considering it was her first time out there. How many guys are lucky enough to have a wife who will shoot at them with a gun? Er, nevermind.