Month Archive for January, 2009

Meat Twice a Week

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 27, 2009

Two years ago about this time I blogged about my resolution to give up soft drinks, which I'm glad to say I've successfully continued for a second bonus year, despite it having no noticeable positive effect on my health while making me an outcast at all of those cola-centered social gatherings. And despite the [...]

Choosing when to go deeper in conversation

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 18, 2009

I've been thinking lately about the moments in a conversation when the people participating make a choice - conscious or not - about whether to let it go "deeper," or to keep it at a pleasant and polite level of chit-chat. I'm exploring that because (A) I really enjoy deconstructing how we communicate with [...]

The one where the plane failed to depart, twice

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 14, 2009

Sometimes you see those weather stories on the evening news where they show a few seconds of airline passengers stranded in some airport looking like hell as they try to figure out how to cope with canceled or delayed flights, and usually you just feel a little bad for them and then move on. At [...]

Random Twitter Things

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 13, 2009

I really am sorry, but I can't help but share a few random things about my Twitter experiences lately.  (This blog post will not have any socially redeeming value, and may need to be taken as a cry for help.)

On Friday, I received an e-mail from Aaron Scamihorn at MediaSauce, who apparently saw one of [...]

WhatIsYourStory.org, an oral history project in Richmond

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 12, 2009

Despite things being fairly quiet with my original podcasting project (the Richmond News Review), I am still working on a few audio production projects.  One is a new podcast which I'll be ready to announce in the coming weeks, but the other is a great new oral history project that's moving forward quickly here in [...]

Using the iPhoneOS SDK on older PPC Macs

  • Posted by Chris
  • January 3, 2009

I'm just getting started with developing applications for the iPhone / iPod Touch, and one of the first real hurdles I encountered was that Apple didn't make it easy by default to use their iPhoneOS SDK on non-Intel Macs. With some Googling around I was was able to find a variety of articles that [...]