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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-08

  • Mostly doing theme mods on Learncrest.com today. Not exactly planned, but some things were bugging me. Almost there though! #
  • LOL, I keep planning to have a goof off day, but end up doing work instead! XD #slacker #fail #

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Start Your Engines!

January is a month of beginnings. I’ve been poking around on the RuPaul’s Drag Race Facebook page checking out various clips of the soon to begin season 3. I’ve become a big fan of the show, along with Drag U in part because RuPaul has cast her show with real people. The drag queens and moms are not perfect people with perfect bodies. There are some plus sized queens out there, and ya know what? They’re fabulous! So kudos RuPaul!

The new season starts on Monday, January 24 and just a few days later on the 28th my anime con season kicks off with Ohayocon. And that for me means a new season of crossplay, yay! I’ve 3 cosplays I’m planning to bring, Mahoro Andou, Miho Tohya, and Stocking. Stocking from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, is my newest cosplay. I’m just a little worried about cosplaying Stocking because I expect there to be a lot of them. I’m just not used to cosplaying anything that’s trendy, but I love the character so I’ll do it!

In addition to cosplay and karaoke, I’ll be doing some flyering to promote my eBook, Anime Aftershocks. As an empiricist, I’m looking forward to seeing if I can bump up sales this way. My dad has read it, and so far I haven’t been disowned, so it must be pretty good, LOL!  Well with 3 weeks to go, I’d better get cracking!

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-07

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-05

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-04

  • Ok Monday start. Planning to update my web sites with the Thematic Theme Framework. It looks like just what I need now! http://bit.ly/VKXrK #
  • Easy to get distracted from #appdev work…I'll do the site updates next week. Right now parsing XML is on the table. #
  • OOOH I hate it when someone asks you a question and then doesn't care to listen to your answer! #fuckyoubiatch #
  • RT @gavinpurcell: This is fantastic. Someone made a stick on tactile game controller for the iPad. http://bit.ly/hrqM6s COOL! #
  • RT @theearlyshow: Massage Therapists' Lawsuit: Favre Wanted Group Sex http://bit.ly/dI5Ne9 — Uh, who doesn't? XD #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-03

  • Okay, got my #appdev code repositories in order and reupped on @Dreamhost for 2 years. Really the best webhost I've had! ^_^ #
  • Now that I'm serious about #appdev I'm using a lot more of the services at @Dreamhost. Much better support than I had at Yahoo. #
  • Up next, parsing my XML data file. Recycling a file I developed for a Google Gadget that I might port to #iPhone later. #appdev #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-02

  • the dbz marathon in my house continues! majinbu saga now #
  • Gotenks! #
  • As the #DBZ Majinbu saga drags on, I'm firmly convinced that they totally lost control of the story. Lots of fusion WTF… #
  • Fighting candy? *facepalm* #dbz #
  • Play World of Warcraft with a hacked Kinect! Cool! I wonder if this will catch on. http://bit.ly/gK0oP6 #wow #xbox #mmorpg #
  • New year is off to a good #iPhone dev start. Solved a programming prob and now on to working out data storage for the app. ^_^ #appdev #

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Twitter Updates for 2011-01-01

  • @scifichat In 2110 the most valuable goods and services will be digital. Paper money will no longer exist. #scifi #money #future #jobs in reply to scifichat #
  • testing xbox 360 chat pad. so far so good, hard to snap on at 1st tho. #
  • kindergarteners texting with android phones! what a world! #
  • and btw, happy new year! welcome to the 2nd decade of the 21st century! #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-31

  • Just registered for #Ohayocon Reserved a room months ago, so I'm good to go! One #cosplay to finish tho. ^_^ #
  • I'm going to print some promotional cards for Anime Aftershocks to take to Ohayocon. Should be fun! http://bit.ly/a6Bkcx #ebook #nook #
  • Anime Aftershocks is on the #Kindle too and now Kindle books can be lent like those on the #Nook http://amzn.to/bSRQ3n #ebook #
  • Okay back to my #iPhone app project. Got my SCM issue sorted out by moving my build directory. Now I've got some detail views to write! #

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Cage Match: Facebook, Flash, and the iPad!

In the run up to the Christmas holiday, I got the distinct impression that my spouse wanted to get me an Apple iPad as a gift. It’s no secret that I’d love to have one and now that I’m actively developing iPhone applications, it might even become a business necessity. But the lack of Adobe Flash support on the iPad continues to dampen my enthusiasm for the device.

I don’t really have any immediate need for an iPad, but I began to think that my wife might actually make better use of one than I. The way she works with her MacBook around the house makes her more of a candidate for an iPad than an ebook reader like a Nook or Kindle. She’d been asking me which ereader she should get. I lean towards the Nook since I already have one and like the hackability that its Android OS basis provides. But my wife likes being able to do a lot of things at once. She’s a big multitasker and I’m sure I see her lugging about her laptop and the ereader before too long.

So I began to make plans for an iPad for her. An iPad would allow her to do many of the things she does with her MacBook, casually at least. Some light word processing, web browsing, and of course reading ebooks using the Kindle or Nook reader apps. But my plans came to a screeching halt once I remembered that Facebook and Facebook games are a big part of her computing use around the house too. So I started to dig.

It turns out that the iPad Facebook Experience is not too great. Follow the link for more details, but in a nutshell she won’t be able to play Wordscraper on an iPad. That’s  a total deal breaker here. And if even a fraction of the 600 million account holders on Facebook play the Flash based games on the site regularly, that’s a lot of lost iPad sales. At this point I think Apple is leaving a giant hole open for Android based tablets that do support Flash to waltz right in and take a big chunk of a market Apple deserves a lot of credit for creating.

I think that 2011 is going to be the year that Apple finally allows Flash support in iOS. Android is catching up and in the tablet market in no small part due to the popularity of Facebook games, I can see the Flash issue being a big market stick to beat Apple with. We’re already starting to see this in ads for the Samsung Galaxy Tab and some of the Android smartphones that support Flash. Whatever the technical merits of Apple’s arguments against Flash, I can’t believe they are willing to leave money on the table.

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-30

  • Good #iPhone coding day! Code repositories set up and my builds are good. Still long way to go, but I'm pretty happy with it! ^^ #
  • @ButerflySamurai What? #Cosplay is social?! No waaaaay!! LOL XD Be sure to post links to your articles! in reply to ButerflySamurai #
  • RT @BreakingNews: French model in anti-anorexia campaign has died at 28, acting instructor says http://abcn.ws/f9qv0y — Very sad indeed… #
  • RT @Brioneja: #SocialMedia will become a platform to test Artificial Intelligence http://bit.ly/hutVDz #sm #smm #scrm #eidt #skynet #scifi #
  • I kinda think #SocialMedia may actually give rise to an Artificial Intelligence of sorts. One that plays lots of #Farmville LOL! #scifi #
  • Wut? I'm supposed to cook dinner every nite? I'm tryin to build an EMPIRE HERE! Sheesh… #
  • Seriously, most people just don't realize how challenging developing good software actually is. #appdev #iphone #apple #
  • RT @onezumi: If you stop creating you are dead-never let them take you alive! — I heard that! XD #
  • Well enough of wrestling with navigation controllers for the day! Finally got it to work, next up the detail views! #iphone #appdev #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-29

  • Yesterday I stayed up until 4am learning how NOT to make my #iPhone app! LOL, doing much better today! Continuing to bond with Xcode. #
  • Nothing like a billion build errors to show you the way! #iphone #xcode #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-28

  • My 2nd #ebook is lite Sci-Fi, Rolled Up Dimensionality. Check it out here http://bit.ly/fJkUQs #nook #scifi #
  • @darkdaysarehere I'd recommend the Hyperion series and classics like the Dune and Foundation series. All pretty epic! #scifi in reply to darkdaysarehere #
  • Feels good to be bangin away at code for my iPhone app! Still a lot to learn about using the Interface Builder though. #
  • Distractions like cleaning, cooking, and folding clothes must be ignored to make progress today! #iphone #ios #wifewillbepissed #
  • Daughter's playing Okami on the Wii right now. I can't see it, but I really dig the music! ^__^ iPhone work continues. #

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-27

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Twitter Updates for 2010-12-26

  • Just saw Paprika. Awesome movie, makes me miss Satoshi Kon even more… #anime #
  • Having a good Christmas day. Getting gifts from Santa is nice, but giving gifts AS Santa is even better! ^_^ Ho! Ho! Ho! #

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