July 2011
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It's Not Easy...But I'll Take It.
This morning, I walked out of my local Honey Dew Donuts (where the service is always excellent) and headed to my car.  A friend of mine made fun of my attire—golf shirt, shorts, flip flops—and hinted that I didn’t look like I was ready for work.  The good thing was that I was ready for work. That is one of the major trade-offs with running your own business: no commute, no...
Jul 6th
April 2011
2 posts
Oh dear.
Today I went for a run in preparation for Reach the Beach. My plan was to run about 4 miles and get some hills in. Instead, I got lost in the woods and ran around in circles for 90 min. Sorry, Hornets.
Apr 16th
Enom
Could it be?
Apr 13th
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March 2011
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February 2011
12 posts
Geographical Arbitrage
Vermont has wifi.
Feb 21st
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Feb 11th
Working hard for credit
We often clamor over one another for credit when it comes to problem solving.
Mike: NL: All set.
Chris: Woo Hoo.
Mike: It needed to be this: {url_title_path='news/'}
Nate: McKenna, you're a genius.
Mike: I know! Thanks to Drew for giving me a number of incorrect ideas first.
Nate: Hahaha. Credit noted.
Drew: I had one suggestion and it worked perfectly, the first try.
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Feb 3rd
January 2011
17 posts
Jan 31st
What is Internet? →
Nate dropped this link into our campfire chat today.  It’s pretty awesome.
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Jan 28th
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Client Service
Starting Monday, I’ll be in charge of keeping all our clients informed of where we are on their projects.  This is a good change for us, as it will allow Drew to keep the internal workings running. This is also a good change because it will also allow us to put buckshot into full use mode.  Hooray, Buckshot!
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Linux=Ghetto?
Leah just informed me that the sweet little Winbook running Linux Mint is “ghetto.”  I beg to differ.
Jan 26th
Amazon SES Announced.
“Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails...
Jan 25th
The joy of work
It’s a joy to be sitting in my living room talking to Nate about great design.  It really is.
Jan 25th
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February
Sometime in February, there will be a new shotgunflat website. There is so much opportunity, so many ideas, and so much talent around this project that we’re really working to get it right.
Jan 23rd
November 2010
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October 2010
4 posts
Experimenting with Music and Time Management
All this week, I’ll be dividing my tasks up by album. That is, I’ll work on a particular task for the length of time it takes me to listen to one album. Example: today, I worked on HTML and CSS for MyWay Village for The Cowboy Junkies’ Trinity Session. Before that, I did a bunch of portal maintenance stuff for the duration of Interpol’s Turn on the Bright Lights. Should...
Oct 18th
This made me happier than you can imagine.
Oct 6th
I admit it
I’m a fair-weather fan.  When it was 7-3 last night, I was very worried, very frustrated.  In fact, I switched to the Oregon-Stanford replay for a few minutes. I missed the first Ninkovich pick. That brought me back, and I’m glad I stayed.
Oct 5th
iPhone 4
Larry: Are you on your iPhone 4?
Me: Yeah.
Larry: It sounds like you're under water.
Me: I'm next to a window and it's raining...
Larry: *chuckles*
Me: Actually it's because it's a terrrible, terrible phone.
End of the week.
Oct 1st
September 2010
14 posts
Is Vitamin Water an Accessory?
A few hours ago, I managed to pour a pint or so of Vitamin Water XXX all over my most precious belongings—my ergonomic keyboard, my MacBook Pro (gen one and going strong), and my iPhone 4. In true McKenna-panic style I picked up the bottle and dropped it again, spilling even more. The recovery went well—I snatched up the iPhone like it had been bitten by a Hydrophis belcheri and sucked...
Sep 24th
Sep 23rd
They Didn't Teach Me This in Journalism School. →
A state-run Egyptian newspaper shamelessly doctored this photo.
Sep 16th
Overheard: at the polling place
Me: ok, I'm putting my ballot in the machine.
Mallory: what happens to it?
Aiden: it gets shredded.
Sep 14th
Pop Goes the Script Font
Sometimes, a nice script makes your design pop a bit.  Angelina is free, nice, and boasts millions of downloads. Here’s how it looks in something we’re working on right now.
Sep 13th
It's Quran-burning Season.
Churches across America are getting ready to burn the Quran.  As I’ve thought to myself all too often recently, ignorance plus arrogance is very, very scary. For the record, I’m a conservative Christian.  I’m just being very poorly represented by people who have, apparently, absolutely no common sense whatsoever. Tennessee Kansas Wyoming And of course, Florida.
Sep 10th
Sep 10th
Redesign for Redesign's Sake: iTunes 10 Thoughts
I finally got around to installing iTunes 10.  There are a few changes to the UI that immediately jump off the page. At first rub, I’m not sure what the point to any of them is.  First off, I noticed upon launch that my music catalog was displayed in a newly designed list style. Now I have four ways to display my stuff: song list, the new album list, grid view, and cover flow. iTunes...
Sep 10th
RCN Metro is now Sidera Networks →
Many weeks and several all-nighter-mad-dashes later, the new-look Sidera Networks branding and website is up and running. Special thanks to Drew and Nate L. for pulling extra-long hours on this one.
Sep 10th
Norway Buys Greek Debt as Sovereign Wealth Fund... →
I wonder if Norway read the Michael Lewis piece referenced below.
Sep 9th
Fail to Read at Your own Peril...
Or, at your own loss, anyway. Read this article by Michael Lewis.  Via Alek Andreev’s tumblr. Exerpt: As Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a...
Sep 9th
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The Morning Papers
Here’s what papers of record in America’s 10 largest metro areas are leading with this morning. My pick for the day: the tornado video in Dallas. New York: Finance. Falling rates aid debtors, hamper savers. Los Angeles: A Local Scandal. L.A. County child welfare official falsified death reports. Chicago: Politics. Post-Daly circus gets started early. Dallas: Awesome Weather....
Sep 9th