http://audible.nuget.net Fortune favors the Bold. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:28:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hotdogsladies "Work becomes disruptively more enjoyable if you can shed the clients who buy solely on price. Truth is, you can't afford them." http://audible.nuget.net/2008/01/25/words-to-do-business-by/ XP stuck booting on an ATM Originally uploaded by dcortesi hehehe http://audible.nuget.net/2008/01/01/xp-stuck-booting-on-an-atm/ See here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/walle/medium2.html http://audible.nuget.net/2007/12/24/a-new-walle-trailer/ Another beautiful Sunny Morning in San Francisco, trying out the new beta of NetnewsWire from http://nnwbeta.com/, going shopping with G. for an iMac, I just can't stress how good the 24" iMac is! not only is the processor a screaming 2.4GHz, but the screen has 1920 resolution, which, if you ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/11/30/npr/ Via Daringfireball, "Environmental Tips From The Green Team, With Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly ★ May not be safe for work, depending on your work. Went over like gangbusters here at DF HQ." http://audible.nuget.net/2007/11/24/will-ferrell-does-green-team/ A few guys here in SF are making a great podcast of Oscar Wilde's plays, poetry and prose, presented here is some of the after hours chit chat we have, Miguel, Mitchell and myself. Enjoy. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/21/the-oscar-wilde-podcast-after-hours-session/ Wow, I've loved this method of making coffee for a couple of years and just found out on the playa, that it has a name, "Cowboy Coffee", read more here I love cowboy coffee. If not so much for the taste, as for the setting. I do a lot of backpacking. ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/17/cowboy-coffee/ Well, I got a great gift from FON, the wonderful spanish visionaries who are creating a great WiFi network for the globe, (if you're not on board yet, head over to http://fon.com to learn more about it). On Rosh Hashanah, just prior to going to Tashlich, a UPS package arrived, inside ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/17/woohoo-a-skype-fon-wifi-phone/ The web is so active nowadays, RSS, CSS, Jaiku, Facebook, Vox, Myspace, AIM, Y! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Pownce, Digg, Delicious, and more. The originals are still the best though, Craigslist, AIM and Plain old email work great in my humble opinion. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/12/blogging-podcasting-rssing/ If you'd like a few tips regards San Francisco, here goes: You can reserve a Super Shuttle from either of the big airports to wherever you want to go from these guys: http://www.supershuttle.com/ , it's a really good service and a pretty good way to do the 20/30 min journey. There are ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/08/if-youre-going-to-san-francisco/ Spent Friday to Monday in the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man, Pretty spectacular experience. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/09/03/desert-fun-this-weekend/ http://audible.nuget.net/2007/08/30/got-to-the-beach-for-a-few-minutes-today/ I'm BACK! And it's so beautiful in San Francisco, went swimming at Baker beach thrice last week and twice in Pyramid Lake! Heaven is on earth! http://audible.nuget.net/2007/08/29/beautiful-warm-weather-in-san-francisco/ I hope you had a nice weekend, the day was so sunny yesterday that I imagine North Beach would've been really pleasant. I found some nice things that I thought you may benefit from reading, the first is an article about what it takes to professionally blog, and the second, ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/07/30/useful-links-regarding-pro-blogging/ We had a lovely dinner in the Beach Chalet saturday night, following our day at Wordcamp. Then we drove up twin peaks to view the city, the fog was so thick up there, you wouldn't have believed someone if they tried to convince you there was a world famous sprawling ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/07/23/a-foggy-weekend/ blogging using wordpress through iPhone at Wordcamp http://audible.nuget.net/2007/07/21/wordcamp/ Well, I've had the dream device for just under a week and I love it. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/07/16/iphone/ According to the Guardian, Vodafone found Apple's Demands too much for them to get in Bed with the ever growing Apple. It seems that the iPhone will launch in Europe in November, but with O2 as a partner in the UK, Orange as a partner in France, and T-Mobile as a ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/07/06/vodafone-misses-out-on-the-iphone-shares-drop/ Why does a Cat get Dandruff? According to Yahoo Answers, A combination of being overweight and dehydrated: http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index.php?qid=20070319202654AAap4Uq http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/25/cat-dandruff/ Well, Google has this new thing called Google Gears which converts Web Apps (think Google Docs) to offline applications, and I like this because sure MS Office is the best Office software, but sometimes (like tonight) I use Google spreadsheets for making lists, as it's safe in case the computer ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/rss-readers/ The recent transformation of computers (specifically Macs) enable us to store our every thought, every speech and our travel and family videos for sharing with the world and also for posterity, sorting these and backing these up are the biggest hurdles to making this a worthwhile activity. Always remember to Backup ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/saving-precious-memories/ Favourite Newspapers: Guardian San Francisco Chronicle NY Times Village Voice http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/newspapers/ PBS is one of the only TV stations that I like to watch, the Nova shows are really good, as are the documentaries. Tonight I watched 'Hold Your Breath', a story about an afghan man with a very sad story. you can find more about this show at http://holdyourbreath.com http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/pbs/ Somebody called Sarcastic Gamer has redubbed the audio on Microsofts Promo Video into this hilarious spoof video, Funny! http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/microsofts-surface-product/ RSS is the greatest thing to come from the interweb since email, this tutorial tells you a lot more about RSS, but what I'm writing about here is Vienna. Vienna is a great RSS feed reader or 'Aggregator' for Mac OS X, it's got a clean UI, supports RSS and Atom, ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/21/a-walk-in-vienna/ No Posts in ages, but good things come to those who wait. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/17/new-music-finally/ Get this widget! http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/17/iphone-countdown-widget/ I got the privilege today of visiting the wondrous Rubin Museum of Art in New York at 17th street and 7th avenue. It's the only Museum in the world dedicated to himalayan art, and founded two and a half years ago by Donald and Shelley Rubin. You must visit it when ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/06/13/himalayan-art/ No kidding, scientists discovered that Viagra given to Hamsters relieved Jetlag, bbut upon learning that every passenger might start taking Viagra prior to flights, every flight attendant quit. See here: MSNBC http://audible.nuget.net/2007/05/29/viagra-cures-jetlag-in-hamsters/ Happy Memorial Day all, its the first glorious weekend of Summer here in San francsico, and everbody is hard at work in the coffee shops typing up their novels, editing their photos and being technophiles. I spent some time updating AuburnCom.com with info and photos of Apple products like the ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/05/28/memorial-day/ Its the 26th of May, less than a month away from the summer solstice and it feels like winter is coming! A beautiful day for walking around in long pants, a scarf and sipping on a large coffee from the wonderful coffeefool.com or your local starbucks. My MacBook is spinning its ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/05/26/a-foggy-fall-day-in-san-francisco/ Last weekend at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in California was the 2nd Annual Maker Faire, it was an incredible array of art, robots, craft and geekery. I loved it and have CameraGirl to thank for the tip off! Pogo came along on Sunday and I recorded quite a lot of ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/05/24/maker-faire/ Hi Everyone. Just a quick post, In case you haven't heard of this show, check it out, Morning becomes Eclectic http://audible.nuget.net/2007/05/01/kcrw-morning-becomes-eclectic/ Wow, Nine days since my last post! That explains why a google search for "Brendan McKenna" has buried this awesome blog below a whole lot of other nonsense that has not very much to do with me. So whats been happening? I've been moving into my new place at Haight Street ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/04/11/sorry/ Well, I love this station! and my favorite song on it is this Pink song, They have an energy remix of it but all I can find is this version, hope you like it! Doh, that file doesn't work, guess you can grab it off iTunes here In the meantime, here's a ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/04/02/energy-927/ Buy this movie http://audible.nuget.net/2007/03/30/great-movie/ Paul Van Dyk, introduced to me by Kwangy and Dodge in a penthouse apartment with hardwood floors, modern interior design and a huge exotic fishtank, produces clean trance and this is one of his most famous tunes in its simplest radio ready form. http://audible.nuget.net/2007/03/30/classic-trance/ OPP by Naughty by Nature http://audible.nuget.net/2007/03/30/naughty-by-nature/ One of Diggs top posts this morning was regarding the fact that iTunes has added "My Alerts" to inform you of when your favorite artists have a new song/album, and a new feature "Complete My Album" which is going to drive album sales and fulfills the wishes that music buyers ... http://audible.nuget.net/2007/03/29/itunes-adds-an-essential-feature/ http://audible.nuget.net/2007/03/28/i-love-this/