Tweening Around the Tworld!

My stand-up desk is just about done. (It only needs pulls for the drawers.) The desktop is 42 inches off of the floor. A normal desk is 30 inches high.

I’m involved with a research project in advanced web media integration and user interface experimentation. A conversation station is used for a one on one video conference. It is intended to be the proverbial water cooler of the remote/home worker.

The custom mount for the high definition video camera is being fabricated. It will be centered above the screen. The screen is on an articulated mount. By the way, that is a Wii light bar mounted on the top of the screen. While I do use it to play games, the Wiimote is also one of the most interesting UI input devices developed in a long time. It is only rivaled by the iPhone and its accelerometers.

The first rule of NDA Club is,

you do not talk about NDA Club!

Photoshopping by my friend:

Steve Stedman

Stedman Design.

I’ve been thinking about an idea I call Sister Precincts. Much like Sister Cities, a Sister Precinct is about building political bridges between different nearby communities. Our precinct is likely to start trying this idea out by helping register Latino voters. I’ll report on our success.

Members of the Texas Bloggers Caucus at Netroots Nation adjourned to join the BBQ Caucus meeting at the Ironworks BBQ Caucus room.

Left to Right: Richard Holcomb, Jeb Boyt, David Niver, Michael Polacheck and Carol Doty

It’s been a long time since the BarCamp during SxSW but we finally have started work on our Austin iPhone Developers Group. Attendees were: Chris Cooley, Andrew Donoho, Tom Myer, Steve Stedman and David Pruett. We discussed the following items:

1. Whether to have periodic meetings? Answer: Yes.
2. Whether to actually participate as a satellite to the iPhoneDevCamp in San Francisco? Answer: Yes
3. Should we try to participate with next year’s SxSW BarCamp? Answer: Yes.
4. Are we doing a Wiki? Answer: Yes. Tom and Steve have taken this action item.
5. PR for iPhoneDevCamp? Answer: Yes. Tom and Steve have taken this action item.
6. Structure for this organization? Answer: Informal. Do as little as possible.
7. Meeting Location? Conjunctured Co-working Facility.

Potential Meeting Programs:

1. AJAX on Safari
2. Simple ObjC Programs (Weight World)
3. iPhone Games
4. iPhone Enterprise Development.

We chose to reconvene Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM at my house to finalize our plans for iPhoneDevCamp on August 2-3.

My Floating Credenza has arrived!

(Now I have to get stuff up off of the floor.)