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February Flickr Photos
and Youtube Videos
It's just gray and cold.
Bacon Flavored Lip Balm @shatteredhaven got me
Leki is napping while waiting for @shatteredhaven to come home
OLIVE Garden with @shatteredhaven
Little Plane but at lest I have my own seat in an aisle of one
Greeted by Gone Google Ads
Greeted by Gone Google Ads
The Chili's
Ohare Terminal
Rob using Acenture Touchwall
Window Seat!
Gonna be a full plane
Hyatt Lobby
Hotel Room
View from Hotel Balcony
Some pretty serious fog in back
Hotel breakfast area
Breakfast area for the conference attendees
Conference start
Comics! At Internet Retailer summit. Lol
Conference Day Over
Window seat but the view is um, limited.
Rock Band
Hmmm @shatteredhaven desk is a little cluttered at moment
It's Leki's 2nd birthday today!
We put some candles in some cat food to celebate
Wish made, now time to eat!
Trying on Comfort's Superhero mask.
345/365 - Happy Second Birthday Leki!
Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader: It?s easier to teach compliance than initiative via Seth?s Blog by Seth Godin on 2/26/10 Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and simple to teach. Punish non-compliance, reward obedience and repeat. Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It?s difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it?s a huge pain in the neck to do reliably. Schools like teaching compliance. They?re pretty good at it. To top it off, until recently the customers of a school or training program (the companies that hire w [/end quote]
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We chopped it up a little for him after this shot.
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Leki wasn't as excited about the flames though.
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Here he is in a Birthday hat.
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While Sprint may have been ready for webOS 1.4 since the 15th, actual roll-out of the OS hasn?t happened yet. That?s not too surprising - we?ve seen internal dates from Sprint slip in the past. But Palm promised a February release and time is quickly running out. A Verizon tipster has let us know that the ?hard date? for the rollout is going to be February 25th. As in updates past, the update will roll out to around 100,000 devices at a time. However, as in updat [/end quote]
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Re-designing a website can be a hassle if you have a large and messy CSS file. CSSColorEditor makes it easy for you by allowing you to change CSS colors without writing any lines of code. Simply upload a CSS file from your computer and load it into the tool. The editor will than list all the colors present in your file and let you replace them easily by either choosing a new color from the color wizard or by entering the hex code for the new color. If you don?t want t [/end quote]
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From Jenn's blog:
http://www.shatteredhaven.com/2010/02/339365-rock-band-friday.htmlFriday evening Chris & I headed over to his friend Jeff & Stephanie's house to play some video games. Most of the crowd is composed of fans of the ever popular Rock Band, which afforded me an amusing evening watching people swap instruments and sing away.So here's a shot of some people starting another round of Rock Band. :)

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Well, it just wouldn?t be MWC without a few Bluetooth headsets to go along with the new phones now, would it? Thankfully, Jabra has come through with its new Clipper headset which, like Jabra?s BT3030, packs a standard 3.5mm jack to let you pair it with your own headphones (although Jabra also supplies a pair of its own noise-canceling buds). Otherwise, you?ll get some full, discreetly hidden controls on the clip itself, and a promised [/end quote]
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Another big day at Toy Fair ? Mattel held its Collector Preview Night and showed of the latest across its collector-oriented brands. I?m going to bite off a big chunk of that now with DC Universe Classics. There was a lot of DC product on hand, not even counting DC Infinite Heroes, Retro Super Heroes, Justice League Unlimited, and the Brave and the Bold, which will get their own update separately. For DC Universe Classics, we saw the 2-pa [/end quote]
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Jim Fletcher was kind enough to give us a tour of the DC Direct showroom today. For this update, I?ll focus on the action figure products, or what I think of as Blackest Night and ?everything else.? I?ll be sure to post pictures of the other products, mostly statues and busts, within the next few days. Blackest Night In case you?ve been living under a rock, Blackest Night is the hottest co [/end quote]
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Convergence has always been a big theme in tech, and its focus at MWC this year seems to have landed firmly on procuring an application platform that is OS-agnostic. Earlier today, we heard of the big carrier cabal intent on slaying the beast that is multi-platform development through cooperation, but if you ask Adobe the answer is much simpler: just slap AIR on your phone. The company?s grand visio [/end quote]
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Ironwoman? http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2010/02/rescue-me-pepper-potts-armored-alter-ego-gets-a-one-shot-in-may/ Rescue I guess I missed the fact that Tony Stark?s former assistant Pepper Potts, who put on her own set of armor recently in the pages of Invincible Iron Man, actually has a codename now. She?s aptly called Rescue, and she?s getting a one-shot in May courtesy of writer Kelly Sue DeConnick. The comic will tie into Marvel?s Siege event, as the charact [/end quote]
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Link to this post: > > http://www.google.com/buzz/112685560970722160253/7HbPwdR9qVX/We-did-Valentines-a-day-early-Leki-wanted-in-on-it > > 10:25 am *Jennifer Oslund:* We did Valentine?s a day early - & Leki wanted > in on it >
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Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader: The Fatal Flaw With Google Buzz?s Edit Button [Comics] via Gizmodo by Mark Wilson on 2/12/10 Fixing a typo is handy, sure, but something tells me that the less morally scrupulous among us will have a field day with Google Buzz?s edit button?namely, this comic. [DogHouseDiaries via reddit] Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Gizmodo using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
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:::Well this sounds pretty terrible::: Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader: Captain America To Wield Shield, Microphone In New Movie [Captain America] via io9 by Graeme McMillan on 2/7/10 Wondering how the upcoming Captain America movie will fulfill its own hype about being unlike any other Marvel movie to date? It?ll be by having its titular hero singing and dancing. And, no, we?re not joking. Director Joe Johnston told the LA Times? Hero Complex blog that the musical Cap came about through problem solving: The costume is a flag, but the way we?re getting around that is we have Steve Ro [/end quote]
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Left: ?Captain America; Right: ?Gossip? I really dig these abstracted superhero paintings by Bob Kessel. Apparently they?re part of a new exhibit of his work entitled ?Pop Unintentional.? The good news is some are available as prints, in case that Lilli Carre piece I mentioned earlier doesn?t do it for you.
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Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader: The relentless search for ?tell me what to do? via Seth?s Blog by Seth Godin on 2/6/10 If you?ve ever hired or managed or taught, you know the feeling. People are just begging to be told what to do. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I think the biggest one is: ?If you tell me what to do, the responsibility for the outcome is yours, not mine. I?m safe.? When asked, resist. Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Seth?s Blog using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
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From The New York Times: After Escaping Jobless Rolls, Trauma May Linger By MICHAEL LUO Despite returning to work, many grapple with newfound insecurities, reshaped priorities and broken relationships. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/us/06return.html
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It can?t run Flash. It can?t run Photoshop. It?s basically a big iTouch. But it could be the biggest change in comic books. So now that people have had a little time to let it sink in, what?s the judgement? National Public Radio kindly links to Bleeding Cool as it prophesies that the iPad will save comics but damn the comic shop. Now that I think about it, and quite to my surprise, I?m a prime candidate for the Apple tablet. If there?s a l [/end quote]
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Giggety giggety. The Marvel/Disney deal may be the cause of anti-trust allegations, regarding the current deal between Universal Studios theme parks and Marvel. Cited as an interesting wrinkle when the original design was announces with the theme park rights for Spider-Man, X-Men and Hulk being exclusive to Universal on the East Coast of the USA and in Japan, including the Marvel Super Island in its Islands of Adventure theme park, depriving Disney World of exploiti [/end quote]
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Oh you thought you?d had enough iPadness had you? No such luck my fellow men. Here?s a runaround from Jim Shelley of some of the people who were talking up the possibilities the other week? Jim: After seeing Apple?s unveiling, what do you think of the iPad now? Mike Meyer Weasel Floss Studios I?d say the biggest surprise, and probably the farthest-reaching feature of the device, was the deal with AT&T for a no-contract data plan. The pricing is still typical of [/end quote]
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The Hardware is done, bring on ubiquity
I was listening to a Pre Central podcast this morning on my way to work. At the end of the Podcast they do reader questions. One of the questions was basically: "After the upcoming update where we get Flash and Video Recording, what do you think we we will need next?"
At that point the Podcasters were essentially silent. As I was listening, so was I.
I think if you look at the Web OS hardware... It's pretty much a fully capable computer after they enable those two functions. iPhone as well (although I'd argue that iPhone still needs to enable multi-tasking) The hardware really doesn't need to change at all (and since the above are software upgrades, I guess technically it doesn't need to change now.)
It's pretty much all software from here on out. You can refine the hardware here and there but it's not going to be terribly dramatic. So the next real leap is going to be how do these devices interact as they become ubiquitous?
Am I off base? Are there still additional hardware functions that need to be in Android, iPhone or Palm Pre? Or do you agree... the hardware except for increasing speed and ram, is basically-- done?
And if it's not done... What do you need added to these platforms?