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Location based services. They aren’t new. Back 5-6 years ago I was at Sprint PCS (Northern PCS) and dorking around with LBS from MIcrosoft and Cell phones. The stuff has just matured. So, ok. You use the LBS apps. Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite, Yelp, Loopt… whatever. Personally there is so much fragmentation it is ridiculous. No [...]

I still love it. Like I said, I don’t use it as a phone. But I have noticed something different (And I blame AT&T for this – working for cell phone company for 5 years, I blame the carrier :)) In Madison/Sun Prairie, I get 3G ,works great, no issues. When I drive out to [...]

I don’t own a business. So let’s just get that out of the way. But as a Foursquare user, and someone who frequents many businesses.. how could you use Foursquare as a business owner? First, above all, you can know what the heck foursquare is… check it out.. http://www.foursquare.com .. ok, did you find your [...]

So…the iPhone and AT&T. Match made in .. who knows.. Back in 2007 I bought an iPhone 2G (a 4GB). I was on T-Mobile at the time, in PDX. I unlocked it and ran on T-Mobile for a while worked fine, moved to Madison, WI where T-Mob is non existent, so I switched to AT&T, [...]

Mini rant. Too much to write in one tweet. To everyone out there who has an iPhone (and now iPad): Do you not realize that even if you go into your mail settings, and remove the signature that will add “Sent from my iPhone” that we still know you sent it from your iPhone (mostly). [...]

Was thinking about this today. You can now write Word docs, Excel spreadsheets, Powerpoint presentations and the like all online (Google Docs, Zoho, etc, etc). You can record video straight to websites through your webcam, you can video conference directly through the web. Visual Studio in the Cloud: Why can’t you code directly into the [...]

Ok, lately I have been looking online at places all over Madison, either to eat out, or do something, or whatever, and I have noticed some trends and some “no-brainers” about corporate/commercial/business websites. There are reasons people are using the web to find you. The first easy reason is, to get your phone number. Think [...]

Well, I haven’t posted in a while. Still busy as ever. Was up north for the 4th and my 10 Year reunion. Pics are on Flickr. Anyways, this post is about a “Good Memory”, or even better, the ability to memorize things. Memorization. So what does memorization have to do with anything? Well, as far [...]

It is the year 2008, we are half way through. Excel 2003 is 5 years old. Stop using it please. Why? Excel 2003 has the old “limits” – 65,000 rows, 256 columns, memory limits etc. Excel 2007 on the other hand, 1 million row limit, etc etc. That coupled with the way pivot tables work [...]

Well, new job is going OK. Not much to report really, as you can see from the lack of posting. No new tech or anything interesting leads to… well, boring posts like this. Basically I am knee deep in an older ERP system, and doing report mods and small .NET applications to automate some things, [...]