Phil801 - Geek Blog

I’m sure that all my readers are anxiously awaiting my take on the MacWorld JobsNote since it is extremely difficult to find a blog that covered it.  I know it was yesterday, but digesting everything The Steve said and really boiling it down to its essence takes time. 
If you were one of the 3 people […]

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Amazon released a C# Demo for FPS, but not a VB.Net one. Since VB.Net is my preferred language, I converted the C# library to VB.Net.
It would seem that Amazon will probably continually release new versions of the WSDL in C# - to avoid having to convert it every time and to make future […]

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According to this report:
After tumbling for more than four consecutive months, prices on dynamic random access memory (DRAM) may sustain rapid decrease in the coming months, causing memory chip makers to continue losing money. Nevertheless, as the demand towards computers increases in the second half of the year, towards back-to-school season, the prices may start […]

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Ryan Money and I have been working on it for a while, we’re announcing full force now! The Utah Bloggers Conference is a go! We’ve had sponsors coming at us left and right, people begging to be allowed in the doors, companies drooling to be listed! Well, ok, we’ve had a bit […]

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This morning I headed out to pick up Paul from the San Jose airport. We went into Palo Alto and had a great lunch with Andy Fitzhugh. We had a good chat about the history of genealogy companies and where we want to take genealogy in the future. Then we met up […]

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MacWorld was pretty cool! Raven and I headed over there at 10 in the morning and got signed in and started checking things out. It wasn’t nearly as large as CES so we were able to actually check things out. There was an incredible amount of iPod vendors displaying all kinds of […]

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Made it to the Bay area yesterday. Spent an awesome day with Chris Messina, Tara Hunt, Raven Zachary, Scott Kveton and Jason McKerr discussing open source software and how to provide more services for open source projects. Look for some really cool stuff to come out of this group in the near future!
We […]

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Well, that was a mind blow! The only way to describe CES is overwhelming - it is truly impossible to see everything. And if you’re getting close to seeing everything, you’re missing the keynotes, presentations and classes, but if you don’t miss any of those you’ll miss out on 95% of the booths. […]

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