Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

I have been experimenting with Youtube in the past few weeks for screencasts and hosting clips I want to blog about.  After the acquisition by Google last week, I have seen some serious performance degradation.  I am wondering if the news of the acquisition has caused a wave of new users that is punishing their…

I wrote a few weeks ago about the newest WP plugin I was trying out, Podpress.  I’ve had a few more weeks to play around with it, and there is more and more to like.  It really makes the media experience, bith creation and consumption, simpler and richer at the same time.  The one ‘issue’…

They always do great mobile versions of their products.  The mobile version of gmail is great (used it exclusively when I was in Europe last week) and it the mobile version of reader looks to be no different.  I am still leaning towards Newsgator as my primary reader, but the lack of a viable mobile…

I am a big fan of a few things that Google does: search (duh), mail (semi-duh) and even something from the labs, Google Analytics (which I use on this site).  I’ve dabbled a few times with the newly named docs and spreadsheets stuff but I think those are products that require a collaboration scenario (i.e. more…

We had a party at our place last night. Had about 9 adults and 11 kids over for some fall fun. We had a hay ride, a bind fire and a ‘drive in’ movie on our back porch (I borrowed a projector from work and setup a simple screen with a bed sheet). It was…

I’ve heard that they use different sweeteners in the regular versions of Coke (beet sugar in Mexico, Cane sugar in the US), but I had never heard that the Diet Coke artificial sweetener in Europe was different than the US.  I wish they would have used the European version in the US years ago…I would have…

Do you have any idea what I am supposed to do here to get connected?  I clicked around for 10 minutes and then gave up…maybe it was the 90 minutes of sleep I got last night.