When I was 13, I played my first real piano recital. I had done some smaller ones before at the beginner level when I was younger. This time I was playing a “serious” piece by Beethoven and many of the kids in the line-up were older and had ambitions of going on to Julliard or … Continue reading One of my proudest days
I recently completed the phMiracle Total Cleanse. Unlike some of the cleanses that restrict consumption to things like cayenne pepper and maple syrup, the phMiracle cleanse is a raw vegetable cleanse that includes three solid foods; tomato, avocado and tomatos. In addition you can eat soups with a fair number of restrictions, they can’t contain … Continue reading How to survive a seven day cleanse and enjoy it
I backed my very first Kickstarter project about six months ago. Being a noob at this I wasn’t sure what to expect, but since Seth Godin had gained my trust many years ago I was comfortable plopping down $360.00 for the ability to get copies of his latest book, The Icarus Deception, a 250-word blurb … Continue reading Unveiling of the Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
There are three things you can do if you want to improve your writing skills: 1). practice your craft, 2). read and 3). take notes from the pros. Tonight I was fortunate enough to experience #3 as we attended a speaking event that Carl Hiaasen gave to a group of environmentally minded kids called … Continue reading An evening with Carl Hiaasen and a lesson on how to kick ass
The Grand Canyon is truly of the national treasures of the United States. Nearly five million people see the 1 mile deep Grand Canyon each year. This photo was taken near the South Rim overlook. The double rainbow was an added bonus. This is the place most tourists visit. A much smaller number of people see the Canyon from the … Continue reading Mind over matter: How to survive the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim Death March
This week I came in close contact with what ails the once-pristine St. Lucie Estuary. In 1964, I was born on that very river, in Martin Memorial. My family left Stuart before I was 1, but my mom tells me stories of how clean and pristine the river was almost 50 years ago. I returned … Continue reading Accident brings me face to face with what ails the St. Lucie River
I just spent the past couple of days wiring up a persistent data store in the mobile web app I am developing. I want to move the app with Phonegap to iOS and I realized that persistent data storage was a must. Even not being a native app, giving users of mobile web apps the … Continue reading From Web SQL to IndexedDB. What’s next?
I have been so lame on the blogging front lately. I’ve been consuming less and producing more with a number of projects I am in the middle of. I’ve been grooving on this idea of “scaling back for growth”. Can’t wait to start talking about it more here. Anyway, I’ve been using WPEngine on two … Continue reading Two quick picks
About a month ago I entered the Four Hour Work Week App Empire Contest sponsored by Chad Mureta with an idea called StitchaVid. The contest was a great learning experience for me because it was the first time that I had really sat down and worked through the process of researching and designing an app … Continue reading Four Hour Work Week: Amp Empire Contest Result
In my last post I wrote about the new DockMaster Mobile app we are building and introduced basic concepts, such as adding customers and retrieving customer info from your smartphone. As I mentioned before we believe that a mobile business app shouldn’t do everything that the desktop application can do. We are aiming for efficiency and ease of use. … Continue reading Parts and Service Management on the go…