Many people have heard the phrase "Don't live to work; work to live". This usually means that the goal of working should be to enable you to live your life, rather than allowing work to consume your life. Far too many people in the tech industry sacrifice their families, spouses, children, and even their sleep, … Continue reading Don’t live to work…
Category: Life
As some of you may be aware, I have enough allergies to various common foods to have earned the name "bubble-boy" from my friends. In fact, my wife's friends used to semi-joke about me while we were first engaged that she should take a good life-insurance policy out on my, "just i n case". She … Continue reading Allergies, and why Kimpton Hotels Rock
Passwords are definitely fickle beasts. I'm used to juggling a multitude of different semi-incomprehensible passwords containing a mixture of numbers, symbols, upper and lower-case letters, and in some cases unicode characters (letters such as ü, • and §). And for some mysterious reason I'm able to remember these gibberish-filled passwords with ease. But despite all … Continue reading Even geeks forget their passwords
Last night while watching TV I had a conversation with my wife Deanna that made me realize that she is, as far as I'm concerned, a Jedi Knight. I never really have that much of an appetite, and it's not uncommon for me to skip meals altogether. Since yesterday we had a late lunch, I … Continue reading This is not the toast you are looking for…
Today, I'm proud to announce that I'm officially a Canadian Citizen! I've lived in Canada for 7 years now and almost all of my family lives here, but since I was born in California, I've technically been an American for all that time...until today. No longer will I have to sheepishly explain myself when US … Continue reading I’m now a Canadian Citizen
Some of you who follow me on Twitter may have noticed recently that I've been talking about working for a new company. This week is my first week working for Salesforce.com. I'm really excited about the move for a number of reasons, some of which I'll go into here. As of this past Monday, I'm … Continue reading New job, and new career path
I'm an avid "Idea Man". I love coming up with new ideas; for iPhone apps, for web apps, and even for real-world inventions. Most of my ideas only sound great in my head, but when I open my mouth the idea seems to turn sour. A smaller number of ideas manage to survive the thought-to-word … Continue reading Filtering great ideas to fit my available time (and budget)
Wow the past few months have been quite a wild ride, and a ton of things have happened! So much has gone on and I've been writing so much software that I haven't had the time to blog about it. In the time I'm not writing software, I'd rather spend it with my wife than … Continue reading Silent no more…
Just like most of the men at my office, I'm participating in Movember this year, largely due to the razzing I got last year when I didn't participate. Yes, I've succumbed to peer pressure...what would my mom say? At least it's for a good cause. Of course, the first question I asked is "What's Movember?" … Continue reading I’m in Movember this November
You know that feeling when you listen to a song that you love so much, you re-play it 3 times in a row? You also know that feeling when people tell you "ZOMG you've gotta listen to, you'll love it" and you say "yeah yeah, sure, sometime..." and you never bother 'till "sometime" eventually comes … Continue reading I really need to broaden my music horizons