January 2008 Entries
My son Spencer who is 7 is always playing Webkinz. If there is a social gathering site for kids it is this site. We have 8 of the animals at the house and I expect more soon. The site is great for teaching kids about the value of money and saving and also for communicating with friends. My son has learned everything he has about computers in the last year from Webkinz. I wish I had thought of this business model. $10.00 to $12.00 for each animal and all the advertisement on the site (which is minimal). My wife gets...
I love my brown Zune 30. It plays video and also the sound is great. I loved the new 2.0 Zune software until this week and the 2.3 update. I had the software do the automatic update and all went well as far as I could tell. I was busy with work so I did not do any syncing with the Zune 30 until yesterday. I first noticed that all new podcast episodes were not downloading but were still in Pending state from the listings in the Collection Podcasts. I then noticed that no new songs or files were being...
I will be in Cincinnati this Tuesday for a Demo2Win training class. The purpose of the class to enable a sales professional to (from the site): "The goal of the Demo2WIN!® workshop is simple: deliver a practical, proven set of skills, tools and procedures that both beginners and veterans can immediately put to use to improve their demo-to-win ratio." The training is for the Microsoft Dynamics line of business. What I find fascinating is that this training will people with the following: Helping with demo mistakes committed during the presentation...
Not that I forgot but here is Keith elder's great interview.CodeMash 2008 Interview with Keith Elder
Here is the next batch of interviews I did with some of the speakers, sponsors and attendees of CodeMash 2.0.0.8 CodeMash 2008 Interview with Bill WagnerCodeMash 2008 Interview with Brian GoetzCodeMash 2008 Interview with Jeff McWherter & Jay Wren The last interview with Microsoft Architect Evangelist Josh Holmes is the final interview and should be up later tonight. The first day of sessions and keynotes will be up tomorrow and/or this week. I have enjoyed getting these podcasts up and have had some good reviews. Thanks to all the people I interviewed who made me look so good. CodeMash Podcast...
The following interviews have been uploaded for the CodeMash podcast. I enjoyed doing the interviews during the event January 10-11, 2008. These are my first podcasts so I was really nervous and it made me aware of how I speak. I do hope everyone enjoys them. We have many more interviews along with keynotes and sessions that we recorded during the event. I see many possibilities going forward for a new Cloudsocket podcast and screencasts. More on those soon. CodeMash Podcast RSS CodeMash 2008 Interview with Sara Ford CodeMash 2008 Interview with Dustin Campbell CodeMash 2008 Interview with Michael...
CodeMash is over and if I wrote about all the things I did and people I met it would be like a book. It was one of those 2 days that you look back on and think it went by in 2 minutes. The days are now a blur but they were a fun and festive blur that gave me a new perspective on my career and started new passions that will last a long time. I will run down the many things I want to get out of my head and into yours! I saw many friends that...