BarCamp Austin

Mar 12th, 2007 9:02:44 pm - Subscribe
Mood: tires
Current Addiction: twitter.com

Went to BarCamo in Austin this weekend. It ws a pretty cool event and I was thre pretty much from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

If you've never herd of BarCamp, it's basically what is called an un-conference. It;s like a conference, but not as formal and let's the people there choose what will be presented.

I got to hear about a lot of cool stuff from Quipit to Clip Marks and met some cool people along the way.

At one point, a rep from Microsoft opened up a $1,000 beer tab for everyone, although I had to waste it on Sprite. The same guy also gave everyone that was there early a licensed copy of Microsoft's new Expression Studio, which is supposed to compete with Macromedia's (now Adobe) studio.

Anyway, I also got a chance to spread the word about an unconference I'm planning called PodCamp San Antonio.

It'll be on May 19, and if anyone is remotely interested in podcasting or wants to learn more, you can learn more by visiting podcamp.org.

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Live Spurscast All-Star post game show

Feb 15th, 2007 6:02:31 pm - Subscribe
Mood: ok
Current Addiction: http://www.twitter.com

Sunday night, my Spurscast co-hosts and I will have a live streaming interactive (call-in/chat) episode of the Spurscast. We'll discuss the All-Star game, the trade bringing Melvin Ely to the Spurs and we hand out midseason awards. It will star at 10:15 p.m. CST. But we wouldn't think about doing a live interactive show without some interaction from other Spurs fans, so we'd love to have as many people in the Talkshoe chat and call in as possible to talk Spurs basketball.

To listen to the show live, you can go to the Spurscast Live Talkshoe Page on Sunday night and click on the orange LISTEN ONLY button.

In order to chat and call in to the show, you'll have to Sign up for a free talkshoe account and download the software(Windows/Mac/Linux) and click on the Listen, Text or Talk Live button on the url=http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=3685]Spurscast LivePage[/url] at 10:15 p.m. CST.

You can call from a landline, cell phone or Skype using the number (724) 444-7444, then it’ll ask you for the show id (3685) and your pin which you created when you signed up. Once you’ve done that, you’re in and you will be able to chat with us and listen to the show at the same time and/or put yourself on the call-in list which we will take in order.

The process may seem a bit long, but we have actually tested it out several times and had a few others test it out with us without any problems and found it to be simple to use and fun to interact.

We look forward to seeing and hearing from as many Spurs fans as possible and have a great show.

We will have two giveaways, one 22" poster for the first person that correctly guesses a trivia question and a mini game program for the Spurs at Nets game in New Jersey for a caller selected randomly.

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Happy New Year

Jan 3rd, 2007 7:03:42 am - Subscribe
Mood: ok
Current Addiction: techmeme.com

I hope everyone's holidays were great. It was great having my entire family over me and my brother's house for Xmas. I enjoyed the time we spent together and luckily I didn't have to waste any of it doing last minute Christmas shopping.

My gift to myself, which I actually got a bit early was a new Macbook Core 2 Duo Laptop with an 80 gb hard drive and 1 gb of ram, which I plan to upgrade to 2 for my birthday. A few of the gifts I got from family where a laptop sleeve and bag, a Longhorn beanie, cologne, a few t-shirts, a watch and some gift cards.

For New Years Eve, my brothers went out earlier in the day and bought a whole bunch of fireworks and then came home, ate some pizza and watched some tv until about 11:00 p.m. or so when we started popping the fireworks. I popped a few but most of the time I was freezing and tried to stay warm or I was attempting to take fireworks photos. I say attempting because I've always had trouble taking good fireworks photos with my consumer Canon Powershot digital camera. I think I did allright this year compared to years past though.

Below is one of the photos I took and you can see more in my fireworks set on Flickr.

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3 years on Aeonity!

Dec 11th, 2006 7:41:12 pm - Subscribe
Mood: bored
Current Addiction: paulstamaiou.com

I just went back into my archives because I haven't posted in some time and noticed my first post on December 8, 2002.

While I haven't been the most active poster, I go through stretches where I blog quite a bit and really enjoy what Aeonity brings to the table as far as a blogging site. I've used several other blog sites and systems and I've never felt like part of a community like I do with Aeonity.

The other thing I enjoy is the hard work David and Jim put into Aeonity and how they are constantly striving to improve it and add new features.

So Happy Bday Aeonity. I look forward to seeing what Aeonity will be like in the next three years.

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Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics debate

Sep 12th, 2006 8:34:26 pm - Subscribe
Mood: meh
Current Addiction: Nobody Likes Onions

I don't know if any of you have seen the "Loose Change" video yet, but I would definitley reccomend checking it out at Google Video. The video here is a debate on Democracy Now the day before 9/11/06 between the makers of "Loose Change" and editors of Popular Mechanics who wrote, :"Debunking the 9/11 Myths."

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