A project I just finished with Stimulant was demoed today in front of a jillion people at MIX 08 in Vegas. The project is a prototype of a mobile social networking application -- sort of like Dodgeball, if Dodgeball had a UI.Better quality here. Watch for the big shot of 2z and I.

First post from a new 15" MacBook Pro.

I was working from a client's office today when I dumped an entire cup of tea into my laptop. I headed straight for the emergency room and was told that the recommended course of action was to let it dry for three weeks before turning it on. Not an option.

So now I have a new machine which is pretty much the same as my old machine, only ever-so-slightly better. I have a Time Machine backup of the old one, but am choosing to start from scratch anyway. Luckily everything important is either backed up, stored on another machine, or checked into source control.

In an hour I'm signing a lease on an office on Broadway. Then I will have a celebratory cocktail with my new office mates Marcel, Josh, and Marie. We have a 500sq ft space and another 300sq ft across the hall for meetings and such. Assuming we can all tolerate one another, I think it'll be pretty great.

Now to find a new desk, chair, and monitor...

For those looking for good replacement headphones for iPhone, check out the v-moda vibe duo (more). Mine just showed up. Looks great, sounds great, and includes the mic and button from the stock apple ones.

Why hasn't the PMBA reading list concept been extended to other fields? I want a personal computer science degree.

My first Silverlight project launched a few minutes ago. It's an interface to a database of other Silverlight applications, searchable by category, region, and keyword. There's even a tag cloud, so you know it's awesome.

Silverlight is Microsoft's competitor to Flash, so you'll need that plugin to view it.

I was responsible for all of the front-end code (JavaScript), with some help from Darren. Everything else was handled by StepChange.

Current Music: Kate Nash - Dickhead

Poll #1057493 The eternal question
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Spaces or tabs?

So, endquote the web site turns ten years old in about a month. I'm wondering what the traditional celebration is for such a thing. I suppose it would be more interesting if I were doing a bit more with it.

Endquote the handle/username has been around for probably a couple years longer than that. If you squint just right, I've been going by that name for nearly half my life? Geez. The story of how it came about is still on my MeFi profile (user number 199!).

Maybe someday it will be some kind of global entity, but for now it's a comfortable nickname.

I spent most of last week in San Francisco with iamdonte and twozdai at interimlover's pad, with the impetus of an Underworld concert and the excuse of client meetings. My social life is completely tax-deductible. Some stuff happened:

• Spent $1 gambling in Reno on the layover.
  
• Started in SF with a really tasty burrito consumed on a street corner because the restaurant closed the minute we walked in.
  
• Spent enough money at SF's premier lifestyle boutique to become a preferred customer for life. (But getting jeans that fit is priceless.)
  
• Ate too much sushi.
  
• Spent a day at Obscura talking about projects in pretty much the coolest offices ever, with pretty much the craziest tech people ever.
  
• Accidentally attended the OQO Model 02 launch party. Sadly, scwhag did not include an OQO Model 02.
  
• Dinner at Farmer Brown followed by drinks at Absinthe, including the infamous Burning Manhattan.
  
• Friends (including Liz) at Elbo Room, followed by the delightful Eats Tapes at Rickshaw Stop.
  
• Really tasty pizza.
  
• The Underworld show, featuring toobs.
  
• Met Paul Oakenfold, we are now totally best buddies.
  
• Temple grand opening with Derrick Carter.
  
• Best brunch ever? Quite possibly.
  
• Photobooth recon and Claude von Stroke at Shine.
  
• Afterparty til dawn in the middle of nowhere, ride home from a stranger whose name I never really got.
  
• Brunch at Home for linaeri's birthday, followed by lucky cocktails.
  
• A rush to the airport on no sleep, followed by a gracious ride in the sidspencer taxi cab.
  

Tags: san francisco, travel
Current Location: 98122
Current Music: The Hundreds - Turntable Lab Block Party Mix "All Work, All Play"

I ran across this comparison of Parallels and VMWare Fusion (two apps for running Windows on your Intel Mac) and was surprised to find that VMWare was supposedly so much faster. So I installed the trial and it totally is. My Mac apps are actually still responsive while running Windows, and running Windows full-screen in Fusion is almost as good as running it natively in Boot Camp.

So if you haven't bought either yet, my vote goes to Fusion.

Tags: mac, windows
Current Music: Common f. Lily Allen - Drivin' Me Wild.mp3