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Occupy Apps
Last week at an IT meeting I was asked to be a magnet (why not “magnate?”) for the Occupy Apps group. While the linked site isn’t mine, it does give some sense of what we’re about. In a nutshell, we’re building mobile and web apps to meet the various needs of the occupants. Aside from the already mentioned Sneakermesh, we have a few other exciting ( Read more... ) -
First Steps With Occupy Austin
I’m not sure which was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Perhaps it was losing a job when I felt that giving me the support I needed would have been the better choice. Maybe it was being passed over for jobs that I thought were sure things. Or maybe it is the increasingly popular idea that jobs are obsolete.
Maybe it’s that my bank insists on ( Read more... ) -
Bad and Good News
Because the good news won’t make much sense without the bad, the bad comes first.
I was laid off last week. I wish the National Braille Press luck with their currently unnamed Braille notetaker/phone/PDA project.
The good news is that I’m now contracting for Serotek, and am assured that there’s no shortage of work. I am of course under NDA so can ( Read more... ) -
Upcoming Appearance
Just a quick note that I’ll be one of the guests on Thursday’s upcoming Serotalk tech chat, as of yet unannounced, themed “the outdoors.” I’ve been asked to talk about my cycling adventures, though I may also ramble about Hermes as well. Whether I’m live or pre-recorded remains to be seen, and depends onother plans I have that evening.
As a brief ( Read more... ) -
Full Circle
It seems that I’ve come full circle. My blog, originally in WordPress, migrated to Habari, Ikiwiki and now back to WordPress. I left Austin for over a year and a half, and have been back for nearly a year. Now I’m back to posting to my LiveJournal after abandoning it for nearly two years, albeit indirectly via this blog.
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What's this?
Yup, that's right, it's an LJ post ( Read more... ) -
Donations
Recently I've been asked how one might donate to my various projects, and it isn't a situation to which I'd given much thought. Over the past few weeks, though, I've had time to determine my stance on the issue.
First, know that I am by no means hurting financially. That said, if you want to buy me the occasional beer or dinner for my efforts then ( Read more... ) -
Hermes Site Launch
Last month, I registered my domain name and launched Hermes' website. The reason for the delay in blogging about it is that for the last month or so I've been considering it a soft launch. Early last month, I started playing with a VCS called Fossil. The choice of which VCS to use and whether or not to adopt a non-conventional one is tough, but ( Read more... ) -
Down With the Accessibility Ivory Tower
This has been under my skin for a while, and while I would regret pissing anyone off by writing it, I do think that it needs saying. If there are aspects of this which I'm missing because they haven't been shared then so be it, but if you deny someone all of the information or circumstances then you forfeit the right to be upset when they reach ( Read more... ) -
Sounding Off
This year I'm volunteering for Scare for a Cure, a local interactive haunted house event raising money to benefit the Texas Breast Cancer Resource Center. If you're local to the Austin area, consider helping us out by volunteering, donating items listed on our wish list or by buying tickets and enjoying the fruits of our labor. This looks to be the ( Read more... )