procps security updates cause rkhunter warnings that give pause.
Layne Kennedy's Light Over Iceland
Photographer and friend Layne Kennedy just put together this great book combining a ton of images he’s taken in Iceland over the years, many of them were on the trip that I took with Layne, Steve LeVahn and Dennys Bisogno. His photos are amazing! This book is a great walk through that wonderful place.
LIGHT OVER ICELAND by Layne Kennedy
I got special thanks on page 83 for the green laser I brought over with me. You can see my Iceland photos on my photography site.
Burroughs Fundraiser for Mazie’s school. Fun event!
Live auction time. Be careful about raising hand for photo. 😀
Daft Punk “Get Lucky” good Burroughs fundraiser tonight.
Fun to finally meet Donnie Berkholz, fittingly at the airport. Looking forward to connecting again soon!
AWS re:Invent - Day 2
Great seats for day 2 AWS re:Invent keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.
The kerning on the ’ in the AWS re:Invent font could use some help.
Amazon releases RDS for PostgreSQL today! Nice!
Great to watch Werner giving AWS re:Invent keynote.
Wow. New i2 instances are crazy. New c3 instances = super computer on demand. EC2 spot market is revolutionary. Allows a model that has never been available before.
Amazon Kinesis for managing streaming data. This looks very interesting. I think Amazon Kinesis just revamped a project #TeamSPS is starting right now. Awesome. This Kinesis demo has awesome visuals. AWS Kinesis looks huge.
Werner Vogels sporting Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt now. Nirvana this morning. My guess is for tonight shirt? Foo Fighters.
Attending the Kinesis introduction session at AWS re:Invent. Kinesis for stock market data seems like such an awesome fit. I’m guessing Stephen Orban and Dow Jones are already testing. 😀 Kinesis streams != Queues.
Saying goodbye to AWS re:Invent and heading home. Really happy I came. Fun things ahead for #TeamSPS!
A giant frog is singing over an artificial waterfall. Only in Vegas.
Seriously, this should be illegal. This from the Wynn in Las Vegas.
The use of this service is $13.99 for 24 hours and will be billed to your room. Guests paying our daily resort fee will automatically have their internet charges removed from the final bill.
And no, I did not pay the fee.
AWS re:Invent - Day 1
Ready for AWS re:Invent!
Perhaps the largest dining hall ever. AWS re:Invent
Great seat for AWS re:Invent keynote.
Rob Krystyniak, @maas_8128,@zwingocom, @LukeSamaha, @scottbjer, and @pixelsnbits 👍 #TeamSPS ready for AWS re:Invent keynote!
“we are finally data center free!” quote from AWS re:Invent
9,000 attendees from 57 countries. AWS re:Invent
Amazon Workspaces. Huh.
Great to see former colleagues at Dow Jones getting highlighted at AWS re:Invent! Congrats all!
Amazon AppStream looks interesting.
Tradeworx segment of #awsreinvent keynote is mind blowing.
Terabyte of data added a day to S3.
This graph shows the power of AWS.
Attending Big Data: State of the Union session by Paul Duffy at AWS re:Invent.
Morning keynote at AWS re:Invent was great. Hit right topics. Expanded thinking.
Crap. Phone is at 12% battery already! Argh.
Love the Amazon Public Datasets and Big Open Data effort. Great stuff.
You could make a lot of $$$ selling precharged battery packs for phones at #awsreinvent.
I don’t know what’s more impressive: AWS scaling or the dining service feeding 9,000 people.
Pro tip for those in #awsreinvent dining hangar and trying to find people. The pillars have numbers.
At session about Amazon Redshift at #awsreinvent with Rob Krystyniak.
Going to Netflix Development Patterns for Rapid Iteration, Scale, Performance & Availability session at AWS re:Invent next.
Someone should make a twitter client optimized for conferences.
Netflix red, black and blue systems concept is very smart. Did something similar at Dow Jones but no blue concept.
I think it might finally be time to move all my personal web stuff to AWS.
Guys in suit coats playing ping pong at #awsreinvent Dev Lounge.
Fun running into @jondahl at AWS re:Invent!
AWS re:Invent - Day 0
Looking forward to joining other #teamsps folks at AWS re:Invent!
I’m not sure why, but I always find it a little sad to fly out at night.
AWS re:Invent iOS app could use some help. 😕 just not as useful as it should be.
Installing English → Russian dictionaries on my iPhone for trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine in a couple of weeks.
Need Dogwood Coffee beans. Stop at Urban Bean Coffee. Get a delicious macchiato. Repeat as needed.
PSA: Don’t let a wonderful Minnesota fall go by without giving Hüsker Dü or The Replacements a listen. This is what they were made for!
Person at SuperAmerica gave me free air for my tires when I asked for quarters. That’s nice.
Star Tribune in April 1999 on BigCharts Acquisition
I’ve been cleaning through old files and found the copy of the April 30, 1999 issue of the Star Tribune that I had saved with the article about BigCharts being acquired by CBS MarketWatch. I couldn’t just recycle this before running it through the scanner. Phil sure had some hair back then. 😀
Funny that Phil actually did relocate to San Francisco area, just about 10 years later than this article and had nothing to do with BigCharts or MarketWatch.
Fun to see some new Road Sign Math geeks after #TeamSPS meeting yesterday. 😀
Presenting at #TeamSPS meeting today! Crew filing in!
Archie Black kicking off #teamsps meeting.
Say Hi to #TeamSPS!
Texpad for iOS ← LaTeX continues to intrigue me.
Productivity Apps for iPad
A bunch of people at work got new iPad’s recently and I figured some may find it useful to know what productivity apps I’ve been using on my iPad. Over the last couple of months the iPad has really become a critical tool for me.
OmniFocus for iPad
I use OmniFocus all day, constantly on my iPhone, iPad and Mac. Everything I need to do gets put in it. It’s a GTD-style task tool. YMMV, but I find it very useful. OmniFocus sits in my home row on all iOS devices.
OmniOutliner 2
If I’m taking notes in a meeting I’m always keeping them in an outline, and a proper outliner is a huge win for that. I also use OmniOutliner 2 to frame out any presentations I’m giving. One thing I particularly like to do is have an outline document for each recurring meeting, and then have a node in the outline for each week where I put my notes. Makes it super easy to see last meeting items.
HipChat
I’ve been using HipChat for team chat. It’s awesome, and the iPad version lets me stay connected all the time. Great tool.
MindNode
If you are at all into mind mapping this is the best one by a mile for the iPad. Great tool for brainstorming a topic.
1Password
I use 1Password to manage 400+ unique passwords for everything I use. Critical to have it on iOS as well.
Skype
An obvious one.
Keynote
I know most folks are PowerPoint junkies. Personally if I can I prefer Keynote. The iOS version is on par with the desktop one. Enjoyable to work on slides on a plane using this.
PCalc
The calculator built-in is no fun at all. This is a serious, heavy hitter calculator that supports RPN for folks that are into that sort of thing. I don’t know if it does the beloved 12C functions for all the finance folks, but this is my preferred calculator by a mile. Nice bonus is you can email the “tape” if you’ve done a set of calculations.
OmniPlan 2
Like Microsoft Project but for the iPad. If you need to do any standalone project planning this is a great tool.
iA Writer
If you are brave enough to write long form text on your iPad, this is my preferred tool for that. Has great keyboard setup that makes writing longer form things much better.
Dropbox
Pretty much required.
Tweetbot
If your gonna Twitter, ditch the Twitter official client for Tweetbot. It’s about a million times better. At some point a new iOS 7 optimized Tweetbot will come out for the iPad, it’s already out for the iPhone, but until then this current version is the best out there.