RWDevCon 2017 – Notes and Thoughts
I attended the third RWDevCon March 30 – April 1 in Alexandria, VA. (Yes I know that was 10 days ago, but I had a lot of notes.) It was the third time RWDevCon...
Author: Larry
SXSW2017 Health Technology sessions
Notes on the 2017 SXSW Health Tech sessions I attended (some with photos, some with photos of slides from the presenters) in order of relevancy to current projects. The sessions (and links to each...
SXSW2017 Equity Crowdfunding
Notes from the SXSW2017 Equity Crowdfunding session. Presenters: Slava Rubin (one of the founders of IndieGogo), Bill Clark (CEO of Microventures) First Democracy VC is their joint venture that focuses on Equity Crowdfunding that...
SXSW2017 Bruce Sterling
SXSW2017 Bruce Sterling – notes from his customary keynote at the end of the Interactive portion of SXSW titled “The Future: History that hasn’t Happened Yet.” 1st half – normal cantankerous recap Some quotes...
iTunes Match – fixing “Waiting” and un-downloadable songs
I like the idea of Apple’s iTunes Match service but I’ve had some issues getting it to work the way I think it should, especially with the copies of CDs that I own that...
book notes: Night of Knives by Ian C. Esslemont (Malazan)
There are at least 15 books in the Malazan world. From all I have heard, they are quite complex. So that I do not forget plot points or people, these are the reading notes...
book notes: The Heart of What Was Lost by Tad Williams
The long wait for the return to Osten Ard is almost over. I was grateful to be given an opportunity by Tad Williams and his wife Deborah Beale to read an advanced copy of...
book notes: Fires of Eden by Dan Simmons
I honestly thought I had read all of Dan Simmons works, but was proved wrong when I stumbled upon Fires of Eden. Written in 1994 (just before Endymion was released, the third book in the...
Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary
About a 45 minute drive from where we are in Tomball north toward Montgomery is the Saint Francis Wolf Sanctuary. We did not know about it at all until this past Saturday when they...
course notes – Reinventing the Piano (Dr. Dan Trueman, Princeton) on Kadenze: Session 1
Reinventing the Piano is a course available through Kadenze which put the first session up on September 13. The subject is of course the piano, and the course goes through how it is built,...