This is more of a journal entry than a blog post, but I hope other new college grads and those about to be can take something from my experience. To summarize – I worked, I travelled, I waited, I made it.
Social networks are great except you can’t always be there to see everything that’s going on. People are always friending, following, commenting, and direct messaging. The default from the beginning has been to email you about this. Then came the SMS updates from AIM, Twitter, Facebook, and Brightkite even MySpace ::cringe::. Finally, push notifications came [...]
Yesterday, the popular Twitter / Facebook / MySpace desktop app Tweetdeck updated its iPhone app and I wasn’t impressed. In fact, I was disappointed in the direction they took with the trivial features they added. The big “additions” included Facebook integration, video integration via 12seconds, landscape composing, and Bit.ly support. Instead, I would have liked [...]
I love finding new desktop wallpapers that I can hide in the background behind the dozens of windows I typically have open. Every so often I’ll catch a glimpse of one of the nearly 150 I’ve collected over the years. Knowing that I’ll be getting a new work computer in a few weeks, I wondered [...]
