March 17, 2011

St. Patricks Day

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Good morning and Happy St. Patricks Day. Although I'm not Irish, I do belong to St. Patricks parish. That counts for somethin', right? It's also Claire's 15 1/2 birthday, but no, she's not getting the keys to my Jetta. 6:39am

Got the girls dropped off at their schools. In honor of St. Patricks Day, I stopped by Cafe on the Oval and ordered an Irish Eggs Benedict before heading down to the office. I listened to yesterday's readings and homily for the first half of the drive and called my dad to see how mom is doing the rest of the drive in. Unbelievably I left my laptop at home. Today I'll just be working from the desktop PC. 9:54am

Since I forgot my laptop, I've been using the new Outlook Web App. With it's recent AJAX'y update, it could be a complete Outlook replacement. Drag 'n drop, pop up menus, etc. The more I see things like this, the more I think about half of mobile phone apps could be replaced with an up-to-date browser and a good use of HTML5+CSS+Javascript. 10:30am

I've been using Plume, formerly called Touiteur, as a Twitter client almost since I got my Android phone. I'm going to give Twitter's native Android client a whirl today. It's had several updates recently and I can see how far it's caught up. Admittedly I do have misgivings about Twitter undercutting the third party app developers that they had spent years cultivating. First you spend years with a message that you're just the plumbing/infrastructure and leave the user experience to the third party developers. Then later make your own free apps that cuts them off at the knees. 10:38am

Thumbnail of New England Springtime is comingWent to the cafeteria across the street to bring back a lunch. If we New Englanders seem a bit more upbeat lately, perhaps this could be part of the reason. Sunshine, mid-50's, little wind, melting snow... 1:21pm

Left the office and listened to TNT #200 on the drive north. Went straight to Golds for the Thursday muscle mix class. Now to grab a bite and get the boys to bed. 8:04pm

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