10.08.09 Posted in Posterous by jason
As most of you know I’m into sports. I’m on several softball teams, I’ve played hockey, baseball, football, and coached or managed several of these teams as well. My
fall league softball team is the first softball team I’ve managed. With that being said, me and my geekness decide to make a team website and a use my iPhone to keep the book. Now I know there’s a lot of you that read this from overseas and baseball/softball isn’t your sport, but I must say, if you run a team and have a smartphone, check the apps available to you, it could make for a more involved and enjoyable time for all that’s involved.
I downloaded
Faster Than Monkey’s iScore Baseball Scorekeeper (iTunes) for like $5 and it’s great. Anyone can keep the book now, although we have a fantastic scorekeeper that does it for us each and every night, cold or hot. Thank you so much Jill! It will keep the stats for each player throughout the season, career stats as well. During the game it’ll show you where the person last hit the ball if you so incline. It’s one of those life savers that you come across during your lifetime that you say “It was totally worth the money!” Once the game is over, I then email myself the boxscore and stats for that game and BAM! put them up on our website and everyone on the team can rip each other and compete with each other to hopefully drive each other to do better.
Now we really haven’t shown much this season, but it is the first time we’ve all played together and with the fall season coming to a close, we are looking forward to playing next spring. But with that being said, the umpires have commented on the fact that we are “just using your phone to keep score?!” or “how does that work?” Well as managers and coaches get younger and younger, we’ll find a way to advance the ways we do sports. Even if it’s just your average beer league softball.
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10.08.09 Posted in Posterous by jason
I guess there always comes a time when good things come to an end. Yahoo announced that Geocities will be turning the switch off permanently on October 26th. It’s been a long ride for the free web host. Starting back in the mid-90s, pretty much at the advent of the internet as we know it. My first site we a Geocities site, and from reading the article, it makes me wonder why I haven’t kept that first site. Oh yeah, I remember now, because it was horrible 
– animated Simpsons characters, horizontal rules that were yellow and black construction type signs, an “LED” Welcome sign, all center aligned. At the time I loved it and spent a lot of time on it when I should’ve been in economics class, and was proud to have my little place on the web.
Anyway, thank you to Yahoo for keeping the “first apartment” alive and well these past several years. But we all need to move out and move on with our lives as you do as well. Goodbye and Farewell Geocities, it was great while it lasted.
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10.08.09 Posted in Posterous by jason
I came across this article on cnn.com which talks about a study about who are the entrepreneurs today and what demographic they fall into. It’s not really surprising the demographic that they are now, but it’s a shift from when I first was in college and the dotcom explosion was all about the college dorm room or two guys in a garage.
This makes sense to me — entrepreneurial spirit is something that someone possesses and drives that person’s thinking. Not everyone has this, but what everyone does need is a job. Therefore those with that spirit, get jobs and see what works and doesn’t work with respect to their own interests and industry. I’ve had my
domain name and website now for just about 10 years. That’s a long time in this industry. I’ve always had that drive to be innovative and try new things. I like to think I’m an observant person and learn from my experiences. This is what those 40 year old entrepreneurs have done as well. Though I’m not 40 yet, I have been working since I was 14 and I would like to think that I would permanently be my own boss someday. I have struck out, literally, on my own for close to a year, before I needed to get a full time job to pay the bills again. I wouldn’t give that experience up for anything in the world.
There is a lot to be said for experience in the workplace. Maybe that’s why it seems this “Web 2.0″ and the various companies that are out there have staying power, have substance, have use, have products. Those college and garage kids back in the 90s touched on the first step, and that was drive traffic, but what were they driving that traffic to?
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10.07.09 Posted in GTD, Posterous by jason
There’s nothing better than to getting started with a project, task, writing a well thought out email, or write a blog post than a nice clean desk. My desk usually is fairly clean to start off with, because I tend to keep everything in digital form in OmniFocus (my GTD lifeline). But from time to time, it gets a little cluttered with various items, such as papers, order forms, napkins, post-its people give me, pieces of scrap paper from phone calls, etc. Well I don’t know about yourself, but I know that productivity starts with my environment, and if that’s not in order, then I will be hard-pressed to get anything done.
As you can see in the picture, my desk is pretty clean with some exceptions. You can see my
flightdesk off to the left inside the desk. But for the most part my desk here is clean and I’ve been getting tons of work done lately sitting in that chair. Today, after lunch I cleaned up my desk at work and the afternoon was a productive one. So my advice to you, and you can take if you want to (this is my blog, so I’m going to say it anyway
) is if you are having a tough time getting started with a project or task, take a look around you and see if you can straighten up the place a little, you’d be surprised how well less clutter will work.
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09.30.09 Posted in Projects by jason
A question I ask so many times a day
Being a lead developer, I get asked this more times a day than I can count. It may not be in that exact phrase, but that question will for certain pop up in my thinking along the way. My thought process always flows in the same direction when I get asked “Is it possible to have …?” or “Can we set up this page for them to …?” or “We want our clients to …” or (and this is my favorite question prefix) “What would it take to…?” Read More…
09.24.09 Posted in GTD by jason
I’ll be honest, I’ve never been an extremely organized person outside of digital life when I was younger. I’ve always wanted to be though, as the start of each school year, I liked the idea of a fresh, clean, organized notebook, locker, even the calendar. Well, times have changed. Being a web developer forces my digital life and real life to become one. With that comes major responsibility to meeting deadlines for clients, to writing up documentation, to being early and prepared for a meeting, etc. After about a year of messing around with different strategies to make my life a little less stressful when it comes to dealing with all the tasks that need addressing on any particular day, I’ve come up with the following list. Read More…
09.21.09 Posted in Nonsense by jason
I’ve been cleaning up my work and home office lately and getting things organized to accommodate all the things that I have going on in my life. So, of course, I decide that my website needs a face lift to suit the rest of it. I like the minimalistic and modern look of designs nowadays. Typography also plays a role in that as well. But more so, it’s simple. I like when things are simple and it’s easy to just find exactly what you are looking for.
I’m not one for being too creative, I’ll admit my shortcomings. But I know what I like, I also have many friends that do design work as well. Any of which, if you have suggestions on this look, please feel free to let me know. This look may change, but I just wanted to get something up quickly and have it be something that I can stand to look at on a daily basis .
– it’s “the game that never was” – both KC and Dallas are going with their throwbacks to celebrate 50 years of the AFL – founded by Lamar Hunt btw. I’m hoping the Chiefs pull this out, can’t for 0-5 that’s just depressing. KAAAANNNNNZZZZAAASSSSS CCCCCITTTTYYYYY