Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Here at Macworld (Booth # 113)

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Who needs sleep? After a few late nights, things have finally come together for the 1.0 launch of MemoryMiner here at Macworld. The disk image has been uploaded, a new demo screen movie made, and the last tweaks to the web page are going up now. And so, with 20 minutes left to go before […]

Sprint to the Finish

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

I’m sitting here at Kennedy airport, waiting for the flight back to Oakland, cooling my jets by the Famiglia Pizzeria stand. As it turns out, they have supplied slices-a-plenty to many a movie star. A wall of signed head shots bears witness. Adam Sandler, Ahhnold, Rudy Giuliani, and several others stare down at me while […]

Two weeks to MacWorld 2006

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Greetings from Perugia, Italy, home town of my lovely wife. We’ve been spending the holidays with our child who is having a ball with all his cousins. You gotta love Italy: the food, the art, the Etruscan towns. Here you live. Work, that’s a little bit tricker. In order to keep chipping away at the […]

MemoryMiner Goes to School

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

For the last few weeks, it’s been my great pleasure to work with a bunch of super-smart kids at the Marin School of Arts and Technology (MSAT), a charter school in Novato, CA (about 40 minutes north of San Francisco). MSAT is an innovative school that combines technology with a project-based learning scheme that teaches […]