AK’s Adventures

Ok…I’m still not sure if this is useful, or even slightly interesting for that matter, but I started using Twitter.  What is it?  Well, think of it as a mini blog, which has nice utilities and methods to make it very easy to send updates.  For example, you can use your favorite IM client by [...]

[Update 7/10: just some more feedback since I've had it for a bit longer.  See below]I’ve had mine for exactly 8 hours now, so can’t say that I know it well, or come across any issues, but here’s my feedback so far.
To sum it up — it’s worth all the hype, waiting (I personally didn’t [...]

So I get a phone call around 6:30 this morning from Leigh asking if I was going to the Mt Disappointment training run. Ummmm…no. I did go to my yoga class though, then on impulse, headed over to the Apple store afterwards to see what was going on with the iPhone.
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If you were in line tonight to get an iPhone, you most-likely left the store without one. I just talked to the manager of the AT&T outlet next to the Starbucks where I am, and as of now, he has none — they were never shipped to him. He believes most stores are [...]

Today was an insane day. And as the founder of Digg, I just wanted to post my thoughts…
In building and shaping the site I’ve always tried to stay as hands on as possible. We’ve always given site moderation (digging/burying) power to the community. Occasionally we step in to remove stories that violate our terms of [...]

Officially June 11th — no coincidence that it is the first day of the Apple WWDC expo.
Samsung may give it some competition with this — unfortunately, it’s a Sprint phone.

Seems like a lot of people don’t know that daylight saving time will be changing this year — the first time since 1966, thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Starting this year, clocks will be set ahead one hour on the second Sunday of March (instead of the first Sunday of April), [...]

76 out of 100 (70 is passing) was my score on my CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) routing and switching recertification exam I took earlier this evening. This was my fourth time (you have to recertify every 2 years) since I originally got certified in January of 1998, and I dread having to study, [...]

Fortune Magazine just released the 100 Best Companies to Work for list — Google, surprisingly made their debut at #1 this year. Since I’m looking for work currently, I think this will be helpful, especially this list — pretty funny how the tech sector ends up at the bottom. Man, I’m in the [...]