Posted on 6th May 2010 by jeff in Uncategorized
No it’s not what you think. We recently announced that ParkVu has expanded to Louisville Kentucky. The biggest question we get is “Why?”. We have a guest post up on Kentucky Startups thanks to Richard Stump who was the key connector for us to the Kentucky community.
Read on…
PS we’re hiring too
Posted on 2nd April 2009 by jeff in Uncategorized
1 year to the day Terry and I decided to do ParkVu full time, we’re pleased to announce our first application: i2b: the first application to let BlackBerry Bold, Curve, and Storm users remotely retrieve music from their iTunes library, allowing them to play the music they want to hear when they want to hear it, no matter where they are. A brief press release is available here.
And since we’re announcing stuff, I can finally say a little bit more about ParkVu. We’re developing software applications that deliver on the promise of the mobile Internet experience by giving users the freedom to access their data at any time from mobile devices.
We’re at the CTIA show in Las Vegas. Ping me if you’re at the show and interested in talking to us.
Posted on 1st February 2008 by jeff in Uncategorized
personal
I’m cursing Jim Murphy for tagging me in his 8 things you didn’t know about me post. For the record I didn’t know of few of those, mental note: avoid karaoke bars with Jim. Ok buckle up, here we go…
- I have a wicked collection of 80s and 90s tunes, hence my kids (age 5 and 7) rock out to Ministry, Killing Joke and Prodigy in our basement routinely. They also love classical music.
- Our basement is reminiscent of the bars I hung out in the 80s complete with mirror ball and sound driven lighting but no smoke machine (yet). In the evenings, you’ll usually find my kids down there.
- I was a competitive BMX racer and represented Canada a few times including the 1984 BMX World Series in Whistler. Nothing like flying down a mountain on a bike that weighs 18 pounds.
- I was also into skateboarding at an early age and had my own half-pipe in our driveway. Yet no broken bones until I started running. Go figure.
- Got my first motorcycle at age 3 — a Carabella Moto Pony. I currently have a vintage Vespa P200e.
- Got my first snowmobile at age 4 — a SnowBrute? Man I can’t remember. I currently don’t own snowmobile and I absolutely hate winter.
- As a result to most of the above, my hair has been dyed many, many different colours and my head has been routinely shaved on purpose.
- I like cooking/grilling to unwind and I have a strange quest to make artisan breads yet I can’t make Jello if my life depended on it.
+1: I failed Grade 10 math for skipping too many classes despite an ok mark — (trust me I calculated the odds). No wonder I love bureaucracy to this date.
I haven’t figured yet who I’ll spread this joy to next. I just wanted to get the 8 item monkey off my back quickly over lunch. I’ll post a follow-up with the victims names.
Posted on 2nd January 2008 by jeff in Uncategorized
2007, 2008, personal
Despite what the title might indicate, hopefully this post isn’t a product of having my head up my ass. Rather it is the obligatory year in review and prognostication of the year ahead post. Hmmmn maybe I do I have my head up my ass.
2007 was a strange year for me:
- left one startup, now consultant/insultant to another startup
- moved houses twice — wouldn’t recommend a move before Christmas, particularly if you have kids. New construction is a cruel mistress.
- formally left XBRL standard development — deeply miss it and the people
- started blogging again after a year break — meh
- twitter, twitter and more twitter
- switched back to OS X
- left .NET development just as C# was getting really interesting
- starting playing with Ruby and Rails
- attended my first bar, demo and startup camps
- blew through a ton of whiteboard markers
- slowly became a freetard
- met some good people
- got in-touch with my inner Crankenstein
So my simple plans for 2008:
- unpack — so many books, so many boxes.
- strike a better balance between whiteboard and code (i.e. write more code) — mildly-obsessive about RSS as the transportable web right now.
- hang with the fam
- rekindle love for design — being back on a Mac helps as did building a new house. Not getting a black turtleneck (yet).
- help out with Jeff & Declan’s Agile efforts more not that carrying around a mic at the Ambler event wasn’t fun
- be skillful and delicious (vs willful and malicious) — my kids watched Santa Clause 3 way too many times but that line always made us laugh.
- sail smaller boats!
There it’s done.
Posted on 25th November 2007 by jeff in Uncategorized
Quinn was very excited tonight that he could see the planet Mars. Finally I took a look and holy crap the Moon was red. Apparently it is a bad sign for air quality but it’s pretty funky nonetheless.
I snapped a photo from our balcony — hopefully you can see it ok. I’m using the crappy Powershot 410 since someone stole our good camera while I was sailing at the Youngstown Regatta.
Red Moon over the hills of Chicopee
Posted on 28th October 2007 by jeff in Uncategorized
I finally bowed to pressure and fixed the comments. And by fixed, I mean a wholesale change in the template. The comments should no longer get buried under the middle column because it no longer exists. Simple fix.
In any event, you should count your blessings that you’re not looking at one massive <marquee>. I know people who know HTML.