Nobody Listens Anyway

As previously confessed, I stood in line for 7 hours to get an iPhone. Peer pressure keeps getting me even though I am now 32. I am starting to think I am lucky however. Some people are still waiting for their phones to go active.
Ouch.
I came home. Updated iTunes (that took [...]

Yup, I got one. I was going to go mountain biking at lunch today, but instead I got suckered into going down to the local AT&T store and waiting for 7 hours to get one of these babies.
They are cool.
The screen is sweet. The interface is slick. I love to browse through [...]

I rode the MS150 today. Originally I wasn’t going to, but my brother was very gung ho and I finally decided that if I was ever going to ride 100 miles I would need a reason to do it.
We started at 8 am. Even then it was warm. It was around 95 [...]

Kharma delivered a gift to Shelley, the insane devil woman this week in the form of a google bomb. Consider it a wedding gift :-).

An interesting study by business week shows who is doing what on line. The visualization helps to show what is in many ways obvious - young people are more likely to do social things online.
I don’t think this is bad.
I think it means that over the next decade social software is going [...]

We have started a new site for those who are academic in nature. As part of what we do at COSL we have Brian Lamb helping us out with research. As we searched for good research questions our we had to ask ourselves if the questions had already been asked which means that [...]

My first chance to really use the new Blur XC came last night just a few hours after I picked it up. Aside from my test ride in the parking lot last night was my first real mountain bike riding in over a decade. David, his wife Leslie, his brother Brian and Marc [...]

So the new Santa Cruz Blur is very bling. I like to look at it. It makes me happy. It is very light and very silver. Tonight will be the first real trail ride. I’ll let you know how it goes. Marc at Wimmers (bike shop) threw on some [...]

I sat in a meeting at the university today and listened to a sales pitch by an SEO company. We get calls at The Plan Collection for these all the time.
I need to setup one of these companies. They are usually run by a couple of jokers who know very little about SEO. [...]

I ran into this error while trying to run some scripts on my SQL Server 2005 Express Database:
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. [...]