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Austin Smith

Tuesday, January 19th

11:02am Very happy with Remember The Milk. I'm really liking this trend of vim commands to control web applications.

Sunday, January 17th

3:17pm New productivity regime: Remember The Milk with as much Google Integration as possible.

Thursday, January 14th

11:30pm Fun times with @marktheunissen and @davidstrauss in NYC

Friday, January 8th

4:21pm Mac OS X is remarkably blasé about reformatting its main hard disk.

Tuesday, January 5th

12:59pm @john_malone Director of Technology for ConsumerSearch.com, at About.com.

11:17am If I had a dollar for every time I watched tinymce go by in an SVN checkout or update...

Monday, January 4th

2:33pm I'm very happy to be back in Chelsea/Flatiron for lunch. So many more choices! So much cheaper!

11:50am Old Mac, meet New Mac. Now prepare to die.

8:50am @ge_smith The fact that YOU were on the road at 5:50am bums ME out.

1:45am @LizaK the TNR review of Outliers sums up well why I don't like Malcolm Gladwell. http://www.tnr.com/article/books/mister-lucky

1:38am @fotofobe don't 'spose you need a drink, meal, or place to crash while in NYC?

Sunday, January 3rd

3:04pm Man, the Vikings really have turned around since that cruise on lake Minnetonka.

Saturday, January 2nd

7:28pm At least I know how to eat at O'Hare: gyro sandwich and fries from the grill in terminal F, Goose Island IPA between F and B.

4:26pm I'm not. Ever. Going. To. Get. Home. Remind me why I fly through ORD?

1:21pm At the airport, ready to head home and start a new job.

12:39am At blueberry hill with @limeonaire

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

2:39am AT&T's 3g network in Des Moines is actually pretty good.

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

2:33am Registrar: majority say Gandi.net but @ezrabg wins with domainsite.com. I like their modest aesthetic and the price is right. Thanks!

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

11:32pm I saved so much on toiletries at Walgreens in STL over Duane Reade in NYC that my checked bag is free--and I had to check it anyways.

10:02pm Sick to death of Go Daddy's crazy upselling. I want a registrar with easy purchase and management, no upselling. Where shall I go? #lazyweb

9:51pm I've spent 28 nights at Marriotts in 2009. That's like the entire month of February.

5:58pm @merlinofchaos my brother and I tackled my parents' kitchen last week--we finally won when we stopped diluting the bleach :-)

Monday, December 28th, 2009

7:22pm blue moon grand cru is pretty good

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

8:09pm @heyrocker because you enjoy its awesomeness too quickly.

8:08pm My family's smartphone breakdown: 2 iPhones, 1 blackberry, 1 G1, and 1 Nokia symbian freak show

Friday, December 25th, 2009

10:32pm Facebook, you are one annoyance away from being turned off.

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

10:23pm Someone gave flowers in memory of Joe Strummer at St. Thomas Fifth Avenue.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

11:13pm @xmatt where's that? Momofuku?

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

3:44pm Knowledge transfer = I dropped "Pro Drupal Development" on a colleague's desk.

3:30pm Nothing is as obnoxious as a poorly run Starbucks, especially during high volume.