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Presenting at WordCamp OC

March 23, 2011 – 5:12 pm

I’ll be at WordCamp Orange County, presenting a session on plugin development, specifically looking at some of the more advanced things we did in Jetpack. It will be fun — you should go.

Posted in Techn(ical|ology) | Tagged jetpack, speaking, wordcamp, wordpress |

For the past few months, my team at Automattic (Team Social FTW!) has been working on a super-secret project. Today, almost perfectly synchronized with the NASA space shuttle landing (total fluke, but awesome regardless) we launched Jetpack! Jetpack is a new plugin that delivers a bunch of popular features from WordPress.com (the hosted site, which [...]

Posted in Projects, Techn(ical|ology) | Tagged automattic, jetpack, wordpress, wordpress.com, wordpress.org |

Body Hacking

March 5, 2011 – 5:04 pm

Random update, possibly TMI, but we’re all friends here, right? I’m on a bit of a “body modification” kick since reading The Four Hour Body and also Born to Run, and am making some changes and testing the waters in a few different things.

Posted in Personal | Tagged 4HB, fitness, health, running, weight gain |

Hunting for Headphones: ZAGG Smartbuds

March 1, 2011 – 1:40 pm

Since I’m mostly using them on an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, I have 2 extra requirements on my earphones (in addition to sound quality etc). Full remote (Play/Pause, fast forward etc) Inline microphone for hands free use on the phone (and for Voice Control) Recently, my Klipsch earbuds suffered the wrath of the TSA [...]

Posted in Reviews, Techn(ical|ology) | Tagged earbuds, hardware, headphones, iphone, review, zagg |

Waking up with Wakemate

February 25, 2011 – 4:52 pm

The age of the quantified self is coming, whether you like it not. I’ve recently started experimenting with a few aspects of this idea, with sleep being one of the first that I was interested to look at, since I’ve had a quite a lot of trouble with getting good sleep over the years. My [...]

Posted in Personal, Reviews | Tagged health, metrics, quantified self, sleep, wakemate |

Butchering a Lamb, with 4505 Meats

February 22, 2011 – 10:46 am

When I was growing up in Wagin, almost all of the meat that we ate was home butchered by my Dad. He is the kind of guy who looks at most things and says “I can do that” and then just does it. I remember raising our own goats and slaughtering/butchering them. We had pigs [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged 4505 meats, butchery, education, lamb, learning, meat |

Manliest Day Ever

November 28, 2010 – 4:57 pm

I didn’t really think about it until I successfully finished putting back together my sink, but yesterday was a very manly day: Woke up in a tent, in the rain, Ate meat (and eggs) for breakfast, Drove home in a truck, Ate meat (as a burger) for lunch, Took apart and cleaned my camp stove, [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged manly |

Catching Up On Email, A Poem

November 18, 2010 – 7:46 pm

I was walking (in the dark) to catch a train this evening, when I saw a man sitting in car, obviously tinkering away on a phone or something. For some reason it inspired me to write the following: The cold blue glow of a smartphone, or perhaps an iPad illuminates his face from below casting [...]

Posted in Personal | Tagged email, inbox zero, poem |

Big Sur with Bay Area Expeditions

October 17, 2010 – 6:48 pm

Posted in Personal | Tagged adventure, bay area expeditions, big sur, california, camping, hiking, outdoors |

Roadtrip to LA

October 17, 2010 – 6:30 pm

My Mum and Peter were here to visit recently, and rather than hang out in San Francisco (they’ve been here a number of times, and done all the normal tourist things), we decided to go on a bit of a road trip. They were flying out of LAX, so we figured we’d take the Coastal [...]