So I’ve been thinking about what I want to write about here, and while I love looking at technology, gadgets, tips/tricks, etc. I’m finding myself having a harder time writing about those topics which is why I think I don’t keep up at writing on my blog. Maybe it’s because by the time I get done working my full time job (at a software company) and doing work on the side (building iPhone and web apps) I feel that my world revolves around computers. Shouldn’t someone’s life contain more?
It’s been awhile since I’ve wrote to write. My grammar isn’t what it used to be; I feel as though my writing is that of a 9th grader, so I’m hoping that this exercise will help improve my writing and add to other things I’ll mention in the upcoming months.
After giving it a lot of thought, I’ve decided that I’m going to start writing about policy issues in Michigan. While I’ll be the first to say, I’ve only had a mild interest in politics, I’ve been away from Michigan for a year and a half, and have only been able to keep interest from afar. I plan to take a look at the issues facing this state and how they affect the everyday working (and nonworking) people of this state.
Michigan has been my home since as long as I can remember and I’ve had a great grandfather sit in the state house of representatives, a family where entrepreneurship is breed into our blood, and all while living in a small town where the “cool” thing to do on a friday night is to go to the bowling alley. I’ve lived in Lansing, moved to the District of Columbia, and have found that what I can call home is Owosso.
Stay tuned for what else I decide to write about. Perhaps you may be surprised by a thing or two.
First off, I’ve been horrible at keeping this updated. If you’ve been following me via my social media outlets (twitter, facebook, etc.) you know what’s been going on these past 6 months.
I wanted to take a few moments to let you know what I’ve been doing the past 6 months and let you know what I’ve got in store in the upcoming months.
Last time I wrote here, I was headed out to WWDC 2009. It was a blast! Lots of fun exciting stuff, meet some new friends, and started to think of some great ideas that are now getting into full swing.
Skipping ahead to October, I made a decision to move back to Michigan for reasons I won’t mention. It was a difficult decision but one I felt I had to make. I met a lot of great friends while I was in DC and miss it a lot. I hope to make it back down there very soon! Most people would ask why someone would move back to Michigan, but I was lucky enough to get a job with a previous employer, TechSmith. So it made everything a little easier.
Anyways, I decided I am going to work a little harder at my 2010 resolutions and figured I’d start out with a post here.
Create a Screencast 1 per week
Get at least 12 new clients
Post at least once per month (I said 3/week last year and it didn’t work out, so I’ll start small)
Go camping w/friends (didn’t do this last year)
Budget
Continue to grow my business
Well I think that pretty much sums up my resolutions for the year. Stay tuned to see how well I progress with these.
Here’s my attempt at packing tonight before I head over to the airport in the morning. What I did while I was packing was try to put together “packages” so that it would make it easier to pack. I then went from that to packing the packages where they would fit best. I’m still not sure I want to risk taking my Rebel XTI without a protective case of some sort (see what I used in the video. ) So I might end up replacing that with my point and shoot since it saves space. We’ll see though.
I’m getting ready to take a trip out to Denver, CO for the week to go to an iPhone SDK Training class held by Pragmatic Studio and thought it was a perfect time to give Ultralight Packing a try. Andrew Hyde recently wrote about his adventures last month and after reading his story I thought I would give it a try. I’m planning on capturing my adventures with Qik and my iPhone so you can get a feel for what it’s like. Feel free to track that progress on my Qik account. I’ll be posting a video of my packing abilities once I pack up tomorrow. But I thought I’d give you a little insight on what I was planning on taking.
Update: So I’ve made some updates to my list above, you’ll notice them in bold. I’m going to wear a little more than I thought since when I land in Denver the weather is supposed to be around 28F. Of course the remaining days the weather is pushing high 40s, low 50s, so the rest of my clothes should suffice.
So I made some changes to Twitpress so I’m testing them to see if they work. I’m not sure if I should use this or Twitterfeed. I would like it to be a shortened URL, so either use tinyURL or some other service would be helpful. What does everyone else use?
UPDATE: So I was just doing a search and found Twitter Tools from Alex King that looks to be promising! Guess I’ll have to play around with this idea for a little bit longer. Still curious to know what others use though.
So I was walking back from a different building on campus and though that I’d give Qik a try and see if I could get it to send a message to twitter saying that I was live. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Guess I’ll have to work on Qik this afternoon. Anyways, here’s the video from this afternoon.
So I’ve been thinking about what I want to write about here, and while I love looking at technology, gadgets, tips/tricks, etc. I’m finding myself having a harder time writing about those topics which is why I think I don’t keep up at writing on my blog. Maybe it’s because by the time I get done working my full time job (at a software company) and doing work on the side (building iPhone and web apps) I feel that my world revolves around computers. Shouldn’t someone’s life contain more?
After giving it a lot of thought, I’ve decided that I’m going to start writing about policy issues in Michigan. While I’ll be the first to say, I’ve only had a mild interest in politics, I’ve been away from Michigan for a year and a half, and have only been able to keep interest from afar. I plan to take a look at the issues facing this state and how they affect the everyday working (and nonworking) people of this state. 
Michigan has been my home since as long as I can remember and I’ve had a great grandfather sit in the state house of representatives, a family where entrepreneurship is breed into our blood, and all while living in a small town where the “cool” thing to do on a friday night is to go to the bowling alley. I’ve lived in Lansing, moved to the District of Columbia, and have found that what I can call home is Owosso.
