Sigh.
I know, it's been 4 months and 8 days since I've last posted to my blog. Motivated by a fellow 'seldom blogger' who shall remain nameless, I decided to try again (even though I don't have major life events to report like him). I'll try to keep this from being another one of those "hey I really am alive and promise to keep blogging" posts, but it doesn't look likely.
My life since January:
1) FO folded into a hobbyist thing, and I wish I had more time to dedicate to it. It sucks because I really really believed in the idea. Text messaging will take off in the US in 2005, and unfortunately the FO team won't be the visionaries leading the pack.
2) 3rd time is a charm right? Picked up MR in early Feb, spent a month and a half perfecting the workflow with Sam and got up and running in two locations. Got over the initial star shock of the contacts to be made in this biz, now working on a set of projects designed to take MR big(ger) time.
3) Continued working hard at TR, earning myself some awards and a promotion. Getting settled into my role as a prototyper, but loving the pre-sales, idea generation part most of all. I've become extremely comfortable with Flash in the last 6 months, and I promise I'll link to some of the products I helped influence as soon as they are live :)
4) Took a pleasure/work trip to Asia. Visited with KK in Singapore, went to China to help with TR recruiting, then rounded out the trip with a few days on the Thai island of Ko Phangnan. KP was my favorite part of the trip: a mostly undeveloped area frequented by European backpackers; beautiful beaches. Due to adding the China leg at the last minute I managed to miss the full moon party and piss off KK. But let's plan a return shall we? P.S. check out these pics (flash). Check out his other galleries too, INCREDIBLE photography.
5) Turned 22. Shit, I'm old.
6) Continued to see really kickass EDM shows here in Austin. Gabriel and Dresden, NuNRG, DFuse, Infusion, James Zabiela, and more I'm sure I'm forgetting.
7) Canceled my TV. Yes, I'm jonesing for comedy central + FG and the Simpsons, but hey BitTorrent is my friend (maybe not for too much longer). I really disagree with 97% of the programming on TV these days-- reality this, fake news that.
How's that for an update? I'm looking forward to the shocked responses I'll get when those of you who have been grabbing an empty RSS feed for 4 months see this. More to come? We'll see.