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Around SA 02/16: What’s the slowdown?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Amidst all the complaints about the mindset of San Antonio (i.e. it’s not progressive enough), it’s easy to complain especially when you don’t know why. I’ve taken some time, met with some people, and I’m getting closer to that answer.
Tags: around sa, developers, gentrification, political progressiveness, san antonio, texas
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Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then…
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
And hopefully this will be my last discussion on the subject. You’ve seen it enough times (if you haven’t, I envy you). HTML5: 2022 (aka 2012). This created yet another pointless rift that I was temporarily part of last year where some people don’t want to touch it until 2022 and others are using it now. You know, I really hate the web. Why is this even a divisive issue I don’t know, but it is, it created an inane Twitter war between me and some agency where we both drank our respective Kool-Aid (I refused to support something that by the time it’s even in Candidate Recommendation will be outdated by some other new shiny object and they/he started using it immediately, or so they claimed.) and I did the adult thing, apologized, and tried to make amends. Didn’t happen, but that isn’t anything new. Of all the things I’ve read about HTML5, my favorite is this comment: “Hopefully, I’ll be retired by then.” Me, too.
Tags: html5 argument, rants, web development
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…And that’s when I knew I was an entrepreneur
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Other than when I got a spam e-mail in 1998 when I was 11 telling me I was an entrepreneur, there were various other signs throughout the times. I realized I was an entrepreneur when:
Tags: being an entrepreneur, entrepreneurship
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