webgrits

Trying out the TypePad iPod app

It didn't occur to me to even look for this app until I heard James on the Geek Loves Nerd podcast talk about blogging on an iPhone. I'm posting this from my iPod Touch, and it's pretty cool. Won't be liveblogging AI using it, though ;)

BTW, I'll be back tonight for the wild card show!

Assorted tech notes

• I've been in the tech industry for 16 years, but, at some point, I just got tired of keeping up with it all. As I told a management professor once: I'm ready to tell other people what to do instead of doing it myself.  At about the same time that I got sick, I was made the dev lead on my project. Now, instead of doing all the web and database stuff myself, I get to tell another developer what to do :) I'm still responsible for the maintenance for the applications I developed, but the new applications will be the new developer's responsibility.

• I spent most of my day setting up a new test server. We had an old POS Compaq we inherited from the customer, but it had one problem too many. I patched the OS, installed IIS and SQL Server 2K5, and copied over one of my production databases. All is good :)

• I was listening to two of my favorite podcasts (Daily Breakfast and Catholic in a Small Town), and they mentioned a new website, Plurk. It like Twitter, but, then again, it's not. I love it! My profile is here.

• I love the new Facebook layout! It's much less cluttered and MySpace-like. Did I mention I love it?