Monthly Archives: February 2008

Saw this on TUAW

According to some research from Mindset Media, Mac owners are:

• to be perfectionists
• to use notebooks
• to use teeth whitening products
• to drive station wagons
• to pay for downloaded music
• to go to Starbucks
• care about "green" products and the environment
• to own a hybrid car
• and last but not least … to buy 5 pairs of sneakers in a year

Holy crap! They’ve been following me! I mean, not 100% spot on, I don’t buy 5 pair of sneakers in a year, barely even in 5 years. I don’t own a hybrid, though i do drive a wagon (Audi A4 baybee!!) i do enjoy me a Frapacino from time to time, and i don’t pirate music (any more). I’m down with green, so long as it doesn’t cost horse power, or bring me closer to Boulder.

It’s a funny little bit of "duh, that was obvious" but fun none the less.

Sadly I won’t be there to celebrate!

Tom and I tried to figure out how to be in New York tomorrow (my birthday by the way) but it just couldn’t be done. between consulting, and my birthday, and 360|Flex Atlanta a little over a week away, it just wasn’t in the stars.

Tom and I are rather fanatical about running our business "the Cluetrain way" so the chance to get together with Doc and a bunch of other visionaries was hard to miss. We’ve heard that they’ll be having a similar event or events out west so we’ll be makin’ sure we’re there!

What’s really a bummer, Jake McKee is one of those visionaries. Jake wrote blogfusion, which is what I was running johnwilker.com, red-omega, and my wife’s blogs on.

If you’re around New York tomorrow, register!

The API contest is up and running, you ain’t even got to be there to win, though, we’d sure like to meet you if you do win!

The contest site is pretty straight forward; build a cool app, upload or link to it, explain it, tell us what API you used.

It’s that simple! Next week, we’ll roll out the voting portion of the app, let everyone vote on the app(s) they like. We’ll announce the winners at 360|Flex Atlanta.

There’s all sorts of cool prizes, and categories, take a look here. Plus all those cool sponsors are running their own contests, so you can enter your app in more than one, none of that "one entry per household crap." LOL.

We’ve got no limitations on our contests, but the sponsors do, so make sure if you plan to enter their contests too, check the rules.

I had to run to the Apple store yesterday to pick up iLife ’08, and while I was trying to be noticed by an apple store helper (this was one of those stores without a register counter at all, you get rung up where ever are), I saw the Apple International Power Adapter set. While I’ve already got a really handy little multi-prong doo-dad, I figured, well I need to charge more than one thing at a time usually. Plus in thinking of 360|Flex Europe, I’d have my MacBook Pro with me, and having a not small adapter to worry about would suck. So…..

I picked this up. It’s pretty clever and makes the Apple power brick even more useful. I usually carry the long cord, and the plug only nubbin with me, so now, based on the country I’ll be visiting, I just need to carry one more plug only nubbin.

The box comes with a total of 6 adapters, 2 more US plug only nubbins, then the standard assortment of Europe, Asia, Australia, and the UK.

I’m sure there are plenty of cheaper alternatives, but I’m a nut for OEM, gear that looks like the rest of my stuff.

This also works well since I have a trip to Japan coming up, so now I’ll be charging my blackberry and my laptop at the same time.