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Playing in the mud
The moment before Eric got dirtyA couple of weeks ago the desktop team at Novell had some managers visiting from out of the country. We decided to take them up the hill and show them the true meaning...
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Cambridge, MA
Back to normalEvery time I have visited Cambridge, it's been wet and cloudy. I was surprised when I arrived on Tuesday to find it was quite warm and sunny. People were shedding their coats and the ice...
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Facing North
Calvin's New DigsWe moved offices a couple of weeks ago and for the first time I have an office on the north side of building H at Novell. Building H at Novell's Provo UT campus runs east to west and...
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ATIA Conference
Saturday in the SunLast week I had the privilege to attend the 2007 ATIA Leadership Forum on Accessibility in Orlando Florida. I can't remember the last conference I attended when I felt under dressed....
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Accessible Business Cards
Here is a quick test for you, in the photo above there are two business cards. Can you tell who the cards are from and how to contact them? You're doing well if you can figure out that the top card is...
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Novell Hackweek v2
It finally stopped snowingI finally escaped a lot of manager type work and was able to hack a little. The initial UI Automation bits of code (UIAutomationProvider and UIAutomationTypes) have been...
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Is your sidewalk accessible?
Calvin points out an accessible sidewalk in BeijingWhen visiting Beijing last week I noticed that many of the sidewalks have a strip down the side that has a specific pattern. I started noticing it...
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Naming Tasky
Boyd and I created Tasky for Novell's Hackweek v2 and hacked as fast and furious as we could to get it running during the week. We didn't think much about the name and as it turns out, there are...
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Tasque at Brainshare '08
In the Friday keynote of Novell's Brainshare this year they did a highlight on some of the Hackweek v2 projects. Zonker recently joined Novell and did a great job introducing all of the projects. Boyd...
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Community Rocks
Boyd and I were so focused on our Brainshare presentation we went off the grid for a day and ignored everything... that was a mistake! On Thursday Guillaume Beland posted his first GNOME Do plugin...
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Appigo at Macworld 2009
AccuFuel in the Apple BoothAt Macworld this year, Apple had a very large wall in their booth with a number of applications from the App Store. If you look right above the head of the guy in the photo...
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Todo icon in an iPhone TV Commercial
Last night I was watching "Lost" and there were several iPhone commercials on. I always pause the Tivo to see if by some off chance any Appigo apps are in the commercial or at least on the iPhone. They...
View ArticleHawaii Five-0-mercial
I was watching the new Hawaii Five-0 show tonight and realized how commercialized TV has become. Like in most shows there is a major sponsor, in this case it's Chevrolet. They tell you that when the...
View ArticleTodo for Mac
Today Appigo announced Todo for Mac. It's nice to finally let the cat out of the bag.
View ArticleBiggest Loser Contest at work
Abe approached me last Tuesday about "The Man Diet" and we decided to start a biggest loser contest at Appigo. Since starting Appigo I've put all of my free time into the company and stopped my regular...
View ArticleMonster Bike Ride
This morning I wanted to ride up south fork to Trefoil Camp and check out the trail off the park on the way back down. It turned out to be a very long and fun ride.
View ArticleRoad Biking at Bear Lake
This morning I went on a bike ride with Joe Morton and Scott Peterson. They were on road bikes and I was on my mountain bike. I was able to keep up with a lot of drafting behind Joe and Scott. It made...
View ArticleReturning to Health
It's been 9 weeks since we started the "Biggest Loser" contest at work and I weighed in at 263.4 lbs. This weekend I weighed less than 225 lbs. That's 38 lbs lost in 9 weeks. A lot of people are asking...
View ArticleRunning Again
A couple of months ago I pulled a muscle in my left calf and haven't been able to really run. I decided to stay off it for a couple of weeks and rely on biking, swimming, and other activities. Earlier...
View ArticleRoad and Mountain Bike Rides back to back
Boyd and I gave everyone the afternoon off at Appigo and went on a bike ride. We couldn't decide between road or mountain bikes so we tried both. First we did a 19 mile road bike ride up South Fork...
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