kellan

Growing up in California, with a Dad famed for his margaritas I feel like I should have a deeper base of knowledge to draw on.

As RSS aggregators become a key piece of our outboard brain, its behooves us to have one that most perfectly fits the way we think, and so naturally we think, “I’ll write my own! And do it right!”

Until you realize what an ugly, messy world RSS really is.

Not sure what it means to do a basic implementation, but I think writing it counts as basically implementing :)

Playing with 43people you get the sense of a plan coming together.

Like links, but unlike photos, people (and relationships) are a key component I want to build around. Powerful potential plumbing is peaking through.

But it isn’t there to be done anymore.

Steve at the Meetup 2.0 was talking about the idea that maybe your blog is your personal business card. However I admit I’d like something slick and designed.

(I’ve gotten business card envy of Jasmine’s cards that all seems slick and black, except for those which are printed on vellum and are translucent)

First, I’ve got to figure out what my persona brand is though.

SF’s cafe culture is amazing! However there is no good directory so you just have to learn it by word of mouth/happy discovery.

I can’t say “I’m done!”, but definitely starting to feel fluent, and its an amazing language. (crippled only by its libraries)

If you’ve only done Rails (a Ruby-inspired web programming language) I suggest spending some time with just Ruby.

Went to Peru, and only added Cuzo and Lima to my count. If I wanted to pick up some quick wins I’d travel overland in the Andes (and not get sick) Pick up another 8-9 easy.

Helps to travel back to where you were born. In this nomadic age this often quite far away, however given your lack of a passport probably within the same country.

Turns out that your birth certificate is one of the few things your parents can still get for you as an adult. Use this.

For some definitions of start, we’ve already done this, I wonder if I should make it worth doing?

oh great, and powerful “helper”, how may i use backpack?

Anyone else learning Ruby and/or Rails in Boston, and want to start a meetup?

http://ruby.meetup.com/

www.schooltool.org/schoolbell

Some people will tell you that the “RSS aggregator” is a solved problem, but it ain’t. We’re just starting to figure out how to fish from the of massive stream of information that is being created, we’re at the very beginning of the experimentation curve, not the end.

as a calendar geek (and ex-palm engineer) i’ve got some pretty strong ideas about pda/pims. as a free wifi proponent i have some demanding requirements for my devices (i want opportunisitc network support, roll over from wifi, to cell network, to cdpd)

currently the market ain’t cutting it. and until it does, its just a clunky, bulky, toy that needs to be charged, and tended like a tagamotchi for “adults”. that isn’t an improvement.

so until then i’m going to try going low tech for a while.

http://merlin.blogs.com/43folders/2004/09/introducing_the.html

stack of index card, a binder clip, and a pen

blue frog is a mostly pastries and they don’t make their own breads. we tried a lemon meringue tart, it was disappointing.

flour in the south end was difficult to get to, expensive, and bougie, but the bread was excellent, good crisp crust, interestingly sour peasent loaf.

I think del.icio.us is the coolest, most useful website on the web (w/ 43 things a close 2nd of course).

Done some writing on it:

some thoughts on how to use tags

the problem w/ traditional approaches

I’ve been wanting to redesign the website for an opensource project I maintain. I’ve been keeping a (currently short) list of websites that I want to steal from on del.icio.us at:

http://del.icio.us/kellan/inspiration+redesign

I should be probably jotting down why I find them inspiring so when I come back in 6 months I remember :-/