Sitting in a theatre watching ‘Cloverfield‘.
The trailer is out on Apple (linked above).
OH MY GOD! What a cool trailer. I can only hope that the movie lives up to it’s trailer.
I found some neat rumor sites,
I can’t wait to see more trailers, build the mystery… maybe it’s Mothra, or Mecha Go’Jira? :D
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Tom and I have been working hard, implementing what we learned in Seattle, as well as what our customers told us in "the survey". From there we created the next iteration of 360|Flex.
Atlanta is going to be great! Greater than Seattle!
We’re getting some great speakers lined up, and are proud like you can’t believe that many of our past attendees are signing up to speak. Sure when they speak they get in for free, but it’s great to be encouraging people to become more active in the community; give back, share knowledge. We’d let everyone in for free if everyone wanted to share… well maybe not everyone, since we need to pay some bills, but you get my meaning.
It’s great to be back in active planning mode. For all the stress that comes with this, it’s truly fun and once the day of hits, rewarding. Shaking each attendees hand as they pick up their badge. Having a few drinks with the sponsors and speakers at the welcome dinner. That’s all great!
If you haven’t experienced 360|Flex yet, do some googling, you’ll see lots and lots of rave reviews, you should make it out to Atlanta! We promise it won’t be a wasted trip!
One of the cool things for me this time. NO PAPER SURVEYS!!! Tom and I decided that those just suck! We’ll have a few since in San Jose we made like 7,000 copies, but we’ll be rolling out a survey AIR app. Sitting in the session taking notes, fire up the app, fill it in, hit save. Not online, we’re gonna implement the build in SQL Lite goodness to save responses until you are online. Cool huh! I’m stoked to build this thing since it’ll be my first crack at the data persistence stuff. Can’t wait. Of course, like I said, if you wanna fill out the paper surveys, go for it. They’ll be here.
The added bonus of the AIR survey, will be that we’ll have to hire less temps, which means more money for cool stuff for attendees. That’s a win for everyone.
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My wife and I have entered contract on a new home. We’re moving on up… to Denver. Leaving the ‘burbs (Highlands Ranch) behind. Our offer was accepted on Saturday. 
Of course there’s no pictures yet, mainly because when we went up Saturday to look around, we didn’t know that our offer had been accepted.
I’ll probably go up this week sometime to take some pics as well as a few measurements, we’ll be putting a small artificial grass dog run up on the deck for Terrance and Phillip.
We’re crazy excited! We close in less than a month, hopefully in only two weeks or so.
Ours is the one next to the pool, which isn’t built yet, and won’t be for some time.
Having no kids the burbs isn’t really the place for us in the first place, so it’ll be a nice change (increasing) of pace, to be where other people actually go out after 9pm, or enjoy a night out for drinks with out kids around…. Ah I can’t wait!
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1. Quit whining
2. This might make it a little easier on your eyes.
I actually have no problem with Stacks. Icons are a little cluttery, yes, but whatever, i know what I’m looking for, I know which stack is what, so what do I care if they look like a bad implementation of 52 pickup?
I will offer one criticism, Apple should have made them customizable. This solution, while looking really nice, is definitely in the ‘hack’ category simply because of how you have to trick Leopard into doing what you want.
That pic is my dock. The instructions on XD are great and easy to follow, since the originals are in Japanese. A word of warning, if you end up with blue "general" leopard folders, restart. I don’t know if that’s the norm, or what, but only 2 out of 6 immediately looked like the drawer, the others looked like regular stacks with a blue folder as the foremost icon. After I rebooted, all was good in the world.
I definitely like the visual appearance more. The stack is still a clutter of overlapped icons, but the drawer makes it look ‘contained’
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