Crumbs And Stuff

So now, Microsoft goes and bids for Yahoo. The world is crumbling. From what I read, Balmer seemed like a child .. "Google sucks .. because .. they suck .. you know, they think they’re so big .. they suck .. we’re number 1 .. GO TEAM!!"

Wierd.

Things kicked up a notch. Work has begun on the big contract. It’s cool. I’m going to be able to lash out and buy PDF Tools. I’m looking at a really funky support system .. and while building it myself has a big draw .. this thing is already awesome out of the box and costs a few hundred. I couldn’t replicate it’s functionality in ten times that many hours (that fit into it’s price).

The new Robin Hood was on last night (Sunday)!! What’s doing? I heard nothing about it. Caught the tail-end of the episode, and was laughing my head off. I love it that they really are doing the most ridiculous stunts, and yet I find it awesome. Over acting, deus ex machina all over the place (I think I got that right), and a really lame bunch of stories. But they really .. REALLY .. work for me.

Anyway, I have things to do. About four gazillion. No .. four.

[tags]robin hood, steve balmer, google, microsoft bids for yahoo, pdf tools[/tags]

Blizzard is still towering over the rest of the world, like a benevolent Colossus, laughing at the puny attempts of others to stand across the globe.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8913&Itemid=59

Don’t ask me what the hat is about. Or the picture as a whole .. really dropped the ball on that one. Kids flurrying about, asking a zillion questions at once .. mind not even remotely on the job. That’ll learn me for trying to pretend to draw.

[tags]Blizzard, vivendi, colossus, 10 million subscribers, 800+ million profit[/tags]

Dan pointed me to Lily this morning.

Lily.

And the blog, http://blog.lilyapp.org/.

From the site:

Lily is a browser-based, visual programming environment that lets people create programs graphically, without writing code, by drawing connections between data, images, sounds, text and graphics.

It’s got some great little paradigms going on. Not sure exactly how I’d use it right now, business wise, but the "bling" effect is amazing.

I had a play, and things worked pretty well. Easy to chuck objects around and get stuff to happen.

If I had a better "business" imagination, I’d be using it to come up with some new thing, pimp it hard on a wordpress website, and make a bazillion dollars.

Isn’t that what web 2.zero is all about?

[tags]Lily, visual programming, wordpress, software development, web development, web 2.0, ajax, bling[/tags]

Wow. What a few days it’s been.

Crazy stuff.

I’ve taken the role as Tech Evangelist for Clarion, and let me tell you .. it took me less than a week for the enormity, the massive jugganaut-y immense and powerful enormity, of what lies before a Clarion Tech Evangelist to sink in.

It’s a big job.

But so far, despite many ups and downs already (hey, i’m an emotional guy, what can i say) .. it’s great.

Moving on.

Wait. No. I’m done. See you later.

[tags]Clarion, Tech Evangelist[/tags]

Almost forgot my desire to get posting most every day.

Things that happened today:

• Got some nice work done on the Tafres site (local at the moment), didn’t get enough to put it live, hopefully tomorrow night.
• Almost got a digital certificate installed, finally, so i can fire up SafeUpdate properly.
• Had an intense morning at work, squashing bugs hand-in-hand with a very tenacious (good) tester.
• Got absolutely POWNED by my eldest playing Bomb Battles in Mario Kart, Double Dash. He’s just getting better and better. Can’t wait for the day he’s old enough to start playing some rpgs and wotnot with me.
• Thought about the next Jaymoe build, but got scared because it’s not coming together like I want it. Need to simplify. Break stuff down.
• Did some cool work on branding Tafres. The two (Server and Client) icons are now very nicely branded. Also, got one of those favicon.gif’s for the website. Should be cool.
• Another hour on the exercise bike. Really started to hurt towards the end. My posterior was hurting much.
• Haven’t managed to play any games, but .. now .. thinking .. i’m off :).

[tags]clarion, tafres, safeupdate, mario kart, double dash, jaymoe[/tags]