Technically Speaking

Many of you already knew this, but I have been in San Francisco since Tuesday. I came here for a meeting with Criteo on Wednesday, but have stayed over to meet other people as well as just to do the tourist thing. That is why I haven’t updated the blog as well as I usually do. I have enjoyed my stay here, and seriously considering relocating here; well if someone would hire and pay me a California salary!

Should I be in line down at the Apple store around the corner? No. I don’t like standing in lines. One of my biggest pet peeve’s is to “stand in a line” for anything. One of the things that sort of really irritate a person who has spent anytime in the military.

One of the goals I had when I left the service many moons ago, was to never stand in a line unless absolutely necessary. The iPhone will be there tomorrow, and the next day, and probably for many days to come. If I want to buy one, I’m in no hurry. Additionally, since I am a social media person, if I did get one today, I’d have to blog about it!!

I read two good articles this morning. Sad, right? TWO! One almost shocked me. It was on CenterNetworks of course, and I thought for a moment, “Well, well… Allen fell for the iPhone push today.. ” — Glad to see he was talking about a funding round for iContact. Worried me for a second.

The other item was that Om Malik is going to Israel for a blogger conference. Enjoy Israel, I have been there many moons ago; loved the country - very very beautiful place. Not only that (for the linguist impaired such as myself) - they speak English!

Technically Speaking, I’m going to be here in town, San Francisco, through the weekend. Back to the STL and regular updates next week. Oh, btw, that is so far - two good articles - still going through my feeds, updating the Link Blog.

Did you get your taxes filed this weekend? If you were watching rex.tv yesterday afternoon about 3:30pm central time, you saw me whip mine out in about 15 minutes. Here we go, welcome to another week on planet earth:

Dodgeball founder quits Google - And so the twittering goes on and on.

Review of San Francisco - I have no clue, it was open in one of my tabs in Firefox, which if you reading this blog via it, you are doing “A OK” by me! IE 7 users, may be wondering why the side bar drops; just read this.

UK has Kate Modern - LonelyGirl15 via Bebo.

Egnyte - Let this program manage your files.

Router In Space - Yeah, I saw this the other day also. Funny thing, routers have been in the sky forever since the inception of satellites. It just wasn’t used to route internet traffic!

Why Google? - No idea, but I know Om will tell us why Google bought DoubleClick.

blip.tv - They have a new show player. More signals that television is dying off; companies are investing more in the technology to put TV online.

p2p - Remember when it was a dirty word? Associated with pirates and such? Now the mainstream is embracing it. Wow, go figure!

Technically Speaking, that is it for this morning. I know you lucky dogs out at the web 2.0 conference will have so much news, that I probably will be way behind by this evening! rex.tv will be on the air, but will you want to watch my chair today? Sorry, I don’t have another cam to broadcast from a remote location. But I’m thinking of it now! haha!

In San Francisco’s south park that is! I know that here in Missouri, until just a few years ago, drinking and driving was LEGAL. No BS.

You have what they call the open container law here. They had to revise that, as it was totally legal to have an open container in a moving vehicle. I believe it has been since revised, but who knows, this is Missouri! Sometimes they are a little slow on the uptake when it comes to laws.

I think that you could (back in the day) actually be drinking and driving, and if you were pulled over - as long as you could pass the field sobriety test, you were sent on your way. Of course if you are pulled over, there is usually some sort of ticket involved. Sometimes though, well as I said above, this is Missouri!!!

Technically Speaking, it’s time for me to do some work now, so I guess I’ll mention real quick to PLEASE give the sponsors some love while I’m gone!