Google App Engine: Google I/O 2008 Part I

This week I, as well as my Wife Barbara, and my co-worker Dan, went to Google I/O. People who have read my blog for a while may remember that last year I attended Google Developer Day around this same time in San Jose. This year Google decided to expand from a single-day to a whole two-day tech...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

The Opening Keynote: Google I/O Part II

Google is following its trend from last year’s Google Developer Day by posting up videos of all of the sessions on YouTube, but so far I can only find the Opening Keynote. They promised that they would upload them all within a week, so expect more parts of my reviews of Google I/O as they become...

Jun 01, 2008 4 minute read.

Google I/O 2012 Here I come

I’m all registered to go to Google I/O 2012 on June 27, 2012. I’ve been to every Google I/O so far (and Google Developer Day before that) and am really looking forward to going again. The price was really hiked up this year ($900 as opposed to $450 last year), but they have done away with the...

Mar 13, 2012 1 minute read.

Google's Code Mistake, and what they did to make it right

A Coding Challenge to get into Google I/O 2012 went awry when Google's developers made a simple validation mistake

Apr 19, 2012 5 minute read.

Google I/O 2012 starts tomorrow morning

Google I/O is almost here, and the Google Developers have created a nifty widget for enabling the live stream of the video on your blog, as well as embedding my own Google+ stream as a Live Blog of sorts, so head on after the break for my live blog where I will post about the stream while it...

Jun 26, 2012 1 minute read.

Walk with me to End Lupus

As many of you know my wife Barbara has Lupus and in October she experienced a flare-up of her lupus that put her into the hospital. Before this flare-up occurred, however, I was already planning on doing a 5K charity walk called the Walk to End Lupus Now. After the flare-up occurred it became...

Apr 18, 2014 2 minute read.

Looking forward to the Third annual 24 hour Disney Day

Barbara and I are ready to attend the Rock Your Disney Side 24 hour event at Disneyland Park this Friday. For the third year in a row, Disneyland will be open for 24 hours from 6 am Friday to 6 am on Saturday morning. This year’s hashtag is #RockYourDisneySide and the event has a Heroes and...

May 20, 2014 1 minute read.

Wearing a Computer at MIT, a Two Decade Dream Realized

When I was young (somewhere in the early/mid ’90s), I saw some program (I don’t know which) on PBS and they were talking about some guy (I can’t find the program and don’t remember the name, but I presume it was either Thad Starner or Steve Mann) at MIT who is wearing a computer with a Head...

Jun 22, 2014 3 minute read.

Seven Blog Posts in Three Days

Last week Barbara and I attended the annual Google I/O Developer’s conference in Mountain View. We’ve attended every year since the first one back in 2008 and were glad to continue the streak. As you may have noticed from my last few short posts here, I’ve been doing more writing on Justia’s...

May 22, 2017 2 minute read.

My Google I/O 2019 Experience

Barbara and I attended the Google I/O 2019 developer conference earlier this month. We’ve attended the conference every year since the first in 2008. I also attended its predecessor, the original Google Developer Day the year before. This marks my 13th annual general Google Developer conference,...

May 30, 2019 9 minute read.

My Last Binary Day (probably) #NerdNewYear

Happy Binary Day! So in addition to being Veteran’s Day, today, November 11, 2011, happens to be the last “Binary Day” I am ever likely to live through. There have been 36 so-called “Binary Days” in the last 11 years (9 each in 2000, 2001, 2010, and 2011), where all the days of the date (except...

Nov 11, 2011 2 minute read.

Rachel Beckwith's Amazing Gift

For her 9th birthday, Rachel Beckwith asked people to donate to charity:water rather then give her presents. Sadly when her birthday arrived she was $80 short of her goal of raising just $300 for charity:water. A month after her birthday she died in a car crash, in the month since her death,...

Aug 19, 2011 2 minute read.

Another Fantastic Google I/O

Google I/O was fantastic, and not just because I got a free HTC Evo from Google and Sprint for going. Lots of great things, some of which I’m looking forward to implementing in my work.

May 24, 2010 1 minute read.

Ready for Google I/O 2009

My wife and are checked into our hotel in San Francisco. Tomorrow begins Google I/O 2009 at the Moscone Center West in San Francisco. I’m quite looking forward to two days of Google Developer Goodness. I’m hoping that we’ll learn about a lot of great new updates to Google APIs and developer...

May 26, 2009 2 minute read.

Shut down for an hour

For the second year in a row, my wife and I participated in Earth Hour. At 8:30 I hit the main breaker in our apartment shutting everything down for an hour. During that time we read together by candlelight and reflected on just how much energy we use on a day-to-day basis. It was amazing to us...

Mar 29, 2009 1 minute read.

I was wrong, Turns out Chrome Extensions aren't ready yet

A few months ago I blogged that an extension listed on the Google I/O session list implied that Google was ready to release extensions for Google Chrome. I’m attending the Developing Extensions for Google Chrome session right now, which is hosted by Aaron Boodman who is noted for being the...

May 27, 2009 2 minute read.

7-11 Gave me the Finger - and other stories...

April is here, and that can only mean one thing… practical jokes. Tuesday was April Fools day, and as usual, the jokes and pranks were out in full force. Some of them elaborate, some of them simple, and most of them funny. One of the more elaborate ones this year was a promotion done by the...

Apr 04, 2008 5 minute read.

Vegas Vacation

I’m mere hours away from taking a little vacation to Las Vegas along with my wife, and my roommate. Tomorrow morning I will board a Virgin America flight (I’m much looking forward to trying them out), for Las Vegas. I’ve got a lot of fun planned, including one last trip to the Star Trek...

Aug 19, 2008 2 minute read.