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Attitude Adjustment: And I thought I was too poor for a Mac…
In: Life
12 Aug 2008The post says it all
Burmese Refugee Children Love Macs from Joyce Kim on Vimeo.
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Strategic Reading: Managing FriendFeed My Way
12 Aug 2008For FriendFeed has become my replacement for Google Reader, which I only visit occasionally now to see if there are blogs I need to add to my feed.
But, if you are going to replace a reader with FriendFeed, how do you manage the flow of content. While tools will likely improve over time, I have [...]
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- Tags: friendfeed, google reader, optimize, strategy, summize, tinyurl, twitter, twitter search
identi.ca and Penalty of Success
In: Life
3 Jul 2008The latest “rage” flooding through the social-media world is identi.ca, a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that is built on open-source servers and code.
As with anything that becomes an overnight sensation, the problems of success tend to follow. Using GrabPERF, I have been monitoring the HTML download time of my personal message stream. The results have been [...]
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- Tags: GrabPERF, identi.ca, jaiku, Orkut, performance, pownce, social media, twitter, Web Performance
Back in Alberta. Back with my Tribe.
In: Life
20 Jun 2008My grandmother died a few months back, and while this was indeed a very sad day for all of us, she left on her own terms, and with her mind intact, facing the next adventure with grace and dignity.
What this sad event did is provide a focus for the entire Pierzchala clan to reconvene for [...]
Xobni Invites
In: Life
3 May 2008Got six of them. FIFO.
Gone!
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My first week with the Blackberry Pearl 8100
In: Life
3 May 2008Last week a colleague, who had been forced by corporate policy to switch to a Verizon Treo, donated his Blackberry Pearl 8100 to me.
It was a Cingular/ATT locked phone. I unlocked it, stuck my T-Mobile card into it, and upgraded my plan to the unlimited data plan. I the MIS department at work add an [...]
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- Tags: blackberry, blackberry 8100, blackberry pearl, GSM, opinion, review, smartphone
To dream…yeah, right
In: Life
1 May 2008Well, back to dreaming.
It (very briefly) looked like I might be able to get my MacBook Pro (a constant whining theme here). But, again, it fell through. Reality kicked in and the money went to where it was really needed.
Maybe I’ll score a consulting gig or something to help with this…
Leads on cheap MacBook Pros [...]
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- Tags: dreams, MacBook Pro
Twitter: A Success Failure?
In: Blogging| Life| Web Performance
21 Apr 2008When FireFox 1.0 was released, the sites hosting this eagerly awaited software effectively were overwhelmed by the number of users attempting to download it.
A colleague of mine referred to it as a Success Failure. What is that? It simply means that you have been so successful at getting the word out and getting people excited [...]
Those who saw me at the edge of the A-list (B-list? are those terms valid anymore? I am so out of touch) circle during the first wave of the blog explosion saw me flag and then fall. But where did I go? What did I do?
I left town, essentially. Mentally. I had to go down [...]
The fading of blogging
13 Apr 2008Through 2007, the number of posts I made per day/week/month decreased steadily. I know post new items 2-3 items a month, or less. After 2 years of steady entries, I just didn’t have anything to add to the conversation.
Having been an A-list groupie for this entire period, I lost touch with the self-perpetuating scene. A [...]