Doing what you love to do

When I was in college, I had no idea what I was going to do. I was in a general engineering program at Harvey Mudd College which was going to prepare me to be a "general engineer". Would a company hire me when I didn't have a speciality? I had no idea and really didn't think about it much. During the winter break of my junior year, I wrote a program called NotifyMail which you could consider "push notification" to alert me of new email. Way back then I was addicted to email and wanted to know instantly when I had email. This was the turning point in defining my career.

I can't believe I didn't sign up sooner!

A friend pointed me to Dropbox the other day to transfer PDFs to my iPad. I'm not sure why I didn't sign up earlier. It's free for up to 2 GB and it works so seamlessly. It's actually easier to use than dragging and dropping files across my network; just place the file in the Dropbox folder on one machine and it appears on the other machine almost instantly. It really couldn't be any easier.

Got Milk?

I lost my iPad (to my son)

The iPad is truly amazing in that anyone can use it with very little direction. I made the mistake of letting my 3 year old son use it. He's now addicted to it; he loves to see pictures and hear the Toy Story Read-Along book.