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Pressing Pause

Jason — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:52:27 +0000

I will be away and incommunicado for 2 months. I do not expect Rich, my alleged co-blogger, to be posting. What that means to you is that I will be back January 2.

Blogging Hell

Jason — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 03:08:25 +0000

I had 2 [yes t-w-o] g4 PowerBooks go down in the same week. I will be blogging again Monday. May you never experience this. AND may the sands of the Gobi forever blow at your back.

Posting-Lite [no carbs...heh]

Jason — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 03:00:44 +0000

Posting has been light this weekend. I have been leading a workshop. Rich has been doing what Rich does [see below]. Once I recover from the weekend and feel more physically and emotionally resourceful, I will be posting like a crazed, pajama-clad man again.

Heh.

Indeed.

RICH ADDS: Actually, while Jason was leading his course this past weekend, I was busy participating in the “Sports for the Worlds Children” Charity Softball Tournament. I had a great time and I am just a bit achy and sunburned today to show for it (but not too sore, on either front.)

I don’t know about “crazed” or “pajama clad,” but you’ll also be seeing some more stuff from me as the week gets cranking, here.

Oh, and, Sports for the Worlds Children is a great cause. Go here to give them some support.

Our 200th Post

Jason — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:07:02 +0000

Wahooooo!

I was going to write this great original piece on the merits of a volunteer military to celebrate both the 4th and our 200th post, but other priorities have put that piece on hold.

Thanks to all our readers in our fledgling days of this nascent blog.

May we see many, many more and celebrate our 1000th post before too long.

Geeks ‘R’ Us

Jason — Sat, 07 May 2005 13:28:23 +0000

We are moving to a new hosting service and attempting to keep the DB of previous posts intact. Since we are not really geeks–we just play geeks on tv–this is slightly more challenging than walking and chewing gum simultaneously.

DB or no DB…either way, the migration should be complete by Monday and more frequent posting shall recommence.

A Note to Our Readers

Jason — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 22:57:51 +0000

It was my intention when we began this blog to have far more original writing on it. At least from me. And with all the personal stuff as well as my focus on building a business exploring a new love interest, and now having the flu over the last 10 days, this hobby is feeling a lot less like an outlet and more like a task or a duty. Less like fun and more like work–which was the last thing I expected.

I have even considered folding my part of it until I had more free time. It really is just a matter of focus and where my attention is best spent right now at what is shaping up to be a wonderfully critical time [in a good way] for my career/purpose.

No conclusions yet–just sharing my process around this young endeavor.

TreoBlogging in Airports

rich — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:38:34 +0000

Well, I shot out to the East Coast for a quickie weekend visit — starting with an eeearrrrrlllly flight on Friday morning. Which is why you haven’t been hearing from me for a couple of days. While on my trip, I was dismayed to find that TreoBlogging — posting to the blog using my Treo 600 Smartphone — did NOT work as I’d hoped it would. Quite surprising, actually — I had successfully tested out TreoBlogging a couple of times before The Golden Gate went live just under five weeks ago. (Aside: hey! We’ve been doing this for a whole month, now!)

Anyhow, on my trip, I found to my great dismay that the text I’d enter would get inexplicably cut off or munged with garbage characters as it was published out to the site. Attempts to clean up or extend such posts after the fact were frustratingly unsucessful. What happened? Well, I’m not sure. But what’s become annoyingly clear is that for posts of less than 80 characters or so (like my test posts), it works fine — the problem crops up in posts which are longer than ~80 characters! Dang! So, that’s why there was no TreoBlogging from me over the weekend. I’ll continue to work on this. I’d love to have totally 24/7 mobile blogging ability that’s as close as my mobile phone and not dependent on WiFi acess and all that entails.

So, this post is partly a report and partly a request for help. In short: does anybody out there have any experience posting to a blog via their Treo? Please shoot me a personal communication. TreoBlogging will be a very cool functionality, once I can get it to work correctly.

As for the trip itself, it involved family and, yes, baseball. And it was GREAT — apart from the technical snafu already described.

UPDATE: I found a couple of other mentions of TreoBlogging on Google. Interestingly, these all seem to be test posts!