May
15
Well it’s about that time of year again. I’ll be taking the doors off of the Jeep in no time and hopefully getting the Focus running again. New tires, a bit more boost, it should be fun. Along with this will be more grilling. I really want to try to grill lots of chicken this summer and try to shy away some from red meat. Want and will are 2 different things though and I love steaks and burgers. I’m still trying to figure out how I’ll be managing the summer but I’m up to the challenge.
We’re going to be doing another trial run of the PodCast soon, we’re still working out some things such as topics, focus, etc. Oh and probably a name eventually. Along with that, I’m hoping to start doing more writing akin to my previous post about PowerSet. I’ve been trying some offline blogging utilities, currently I’m writing this post in ecto on my way over to Sean’s house. If you happen to be familiar with a decent offline utility, please let me know. Some day I’d like to move to the bay area and this could be a good start at getting my foot into the door out there.
On another note, I’ve been using Twitter a lot lately. On the new layout I have my twitter updates on the sidebar however until I get around to that, you can see what I’m up to at www.twitter.com/trahma. I’ve been using the Twinkle iPhone application as well so quite frequently you’ll see pictures attached to my tweets.
And with that, I’m pulling up to Sean’s house, time to steal his WiFi and post this.
May
13
I think I’ve made mention before just how much Google has changed my life. So many times during the day a quick command-K or ctrl-K gets me any of the data I’m looking for. It’s odd to see myself search Google versus other users, it seems as if my brain has learned which keywords work best for my query, without me needing to think.
Unfortunately, lots of the world isn’t like me. Most people don’t think in queries, and which words are most likely to be indexed. Enter, Powerset, a company that is working on developing a search engine targeted towards parsing the human language. While I can applaud them for trying, I have to admit I was skeptical if they can knock google down. It’s time to do a comparison.
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May
13
So life is pretty busy as usual when Summer hits. Lots of things are on the horizon for me and I’ve more and more turned into a techie again. In June, I’ll return to downtown and be djing every Friday again so it should be interesting to see how this all plays out. Managing work, side web projects, a dj / promo crew, and having a girlfriend will certainly be quite the task. That’s why I have the jeep though, top down, doors off. Freedom.
On the project note, Brandon, Chrispian, and myself have decided we’re going to step into the world of Podcasting. We ran a technical test last night and things went well. I think we’ll probably have one “pilot” episode of sorts to see how things work out, then launch from there. We’ll most likely target the tech sector, with a dash of geek.
To handle my voice, I picked up a Microsoft LifeChat VX-3000 headset and am actually quite amazed with the quality. I wore the headset for about 2 hours and never really felt like it was cumbersome. On top of that, the clarity is top notch and it works well with Leopard.
