{.aligncenter .size-medium .wp-image-14617 width=“232” height=“300”} Create the soundtrack of your year. Now THIS is more like it! Though to be honest I feel like I talk about music to people so often I don't know what to put here that's worth reading. It's actually pretty easy for me to find what I've been listening to this past year because of Last.FM. In fact here is my 12 month chart in detail.| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
I've always said if I took all the time and effort I spent into side projects and spent them on something else I'd have a lot of cool other things. But I've spent some nights and weekends working on this new little app, my first submission to the iTunes App Store. (Approved in 8 days, FYI) As some of you may know, for the past 15 years I've been helping manage an internet relay chat (IRC) channel I started called #TheCabin.| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
I've been laughed at. My sanity has been questioned. I've even been told that the idea was all just a part of Skynet's plan for world domination. But I can now proudly say that "the experiment" (or The Creepy Twitter Experiment) can be executed successfully without death or even serious injury. As a refresher: I wrote a script to pick a person completely randomly from people I follow on Twitter. I wanted to meet those who we mutually follow, but never met.| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
I'm certainly on a kick lately of wanting to take part in some social experimentation. So when this idea came to mind, I couldn't pass it up. The other day I jumped on a new Tweeter stats type thing. There's hundreds of them. This one is twitteranalyzer.com. After it analyzed my online social circle it determined who my "closest friends" were. Although all awesome people, they're not the people I've spent the most time with.| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
So this week marks six months of living in Omaha. I can't help but look back to a simple blog post I made on August 1st, 2008. I wrote "Do I want to move to Omaha? Not really." Now flash forward to May 2009 where my journey in Omaha has so little to do with the reason I came here in the first place. It's mostly about the people for me.| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
Omaha Tweetup #4 is over. All together, not bad. But certainly the curve his heading downward in the "coolness" chart. It seems as it gets more successful, in better venues, the less charm the event has. The first tweetup had about 40 people there. It's the first time I met a lot of great people. Not only people I'd start following on Twitter for the first time, but people that are now friends of mine.| Gabe Kangas
It’s been a year since I’ve written a blog post. So that must mean it’s an Owncast anniversary! But this time, it’s a bigger one. Five years! The Obligatory “Past 5 Years” Section Five years is a long time, but it went by really fast. I’ve had a chance to work on a lot of cool things, travel to cool places, and meet a lot of cool people.| gabekangas.com
May 23rd, 2024 marks the 4th anniversary of the first commit of Owncast, aptly titled: “WIP”. WIP It was a bit before exactly four years ago when I actually started working on it in earnest, but not that far before. I remember duct taping a proof of concept together, opening my laptop’s web port to the public internet, messaging somebody and asking “Could you open this URL in VLC or QuickTime or something?| Blogs on Gabe Kangas
Owncast is server software. That’s it First off, I want to clarify: Owncast is server software for anybody to run their own, independent, decentralized, completely standalone video streams. It provides some additional features that streamers and their viewers can use, but at its core it’s a piece of video server software. That’s what I, personally, care about, and that’s primarily the value I want the project to offer you. Everything else is secondary. The Owncast Directory With that ...| Gabe Kangas
I missed the first week of the year, but I still wanted to write a bit about Owncast and share my appreciation what this past year has brought for Owncast. As every year before it, Owncast has had the opportunity to be used to solve more people’s live streaming needs, be viewed by more people, and have more conversations around decentralization, Big Tech alternatives, The Fediverse, and all the wonderful things that come along with being a part of Owncast. Development From the development s...| Gabe Kangas
Imagine you were hired as a babysitter by some parents for their child. They are usually pretty casual about things, but they mentioned the kid has to go to bed at 8pm. 8pm comes around and the movie the kid is watching has 5 minutes left. And while I’ve never been a babysitter, and I know nothing about children, I would like to think that I, and probably most people, would let the kid watch that 5 minutes.| gabekangas.com
Discussion and brainstorming around exploring decentralized discovery.| gabekangas.com
When the housekeeping rewrite and refactoring is done, I'm looking forward to building some new features.| gabekangas.com
One of the high level goals for Owncast since day one was hackibility, but this created downsides. It was time for a change.| gabekangas.com
Some behind the scenes discussion design challenges of the new release.| gabekangas.com
Software and code are different things. I want to discuss why this matters and why we need to get more software in more people's hands.| gabekangas.com
Growing up I was never a sports person, so I didn’t spend a lot of time on what you’d call “typical” teams. But I was heavily into the performing arts all throughout my youth. This included different organized groups such as choirs, theater performances, and both competitive and non-competitive bands of all kinds, including the stereotypical high school garage band. This continued on even after high school, where I took part in a couple competitive Drum & Bugle corps.| gabekangas.com
It's time for me to find work. Easier said than done.| gabekangas.com
I haven't made an update about Owncast on my own site for a while, so I wanted to do that. In short, things are super exciting!| gabekangas.com
Today The Bat Player on AppleTV was shut down. I wanted to document a bit about the history of the application, and why it’s being rejected from the Apple AppStore. I started The Bat Player in 2014. I wanted a better Internet Radio experience on the TV. I dreamt of artist info, album details and photos. At the time most Internet Radio apps just showed text of the currently playing track and I wanted more.| gabekangas.com
With the explosion of live streaming due to the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic people are flocking to the large internet service companies. Maybe there can be an alternative.| gabekangas.com
I picked up a hobby of streaming and sharing DJ mixes. Here is some tooling I built to simplify and add functionality to some of that.| gabekangas.com
When everything is taken away except for your job, you better really, really love your job.| gabekangas.com
A few weeks ago I shut down Longtail Music, my internet radio discovery platform. I wanted to give a bit of a postmortem to talk about what I sent out to do, what it did, and why I think things never worked out. I originally built Longtail Music as a spinoff from my time with The Bat Player, an internet radio client for the TV. I thought if The Bat Player was a client for people who already love internet radio and know what they want to listen to, then I want to build something on the web for...| gabekangas.com
I felt the need to do something different on my personal machine, and spend more time in Linux. Here are my observations.| gabekangas.com
I spent a whole lot of time building something, so let me explain why I will not be releasing it.| gabekangas.com
Where I look back at how I ended up with my current music preferences.| gabekangas.com
How do you emulate the feeling of working with others when you're working alone?| gabekangas.com
They're talented, so why not put that talent to good use?| gabekangas.com
For the first time in a long time, a new personal home page! I talk a bit about why, and the tools I used.| gabekangas.com
A recap of the past year, including projects, products, and my usage of social networks past, present and future.| gabekangas.com
My thoughts on mainstream corporate internet products and putting new coats of paint on top of internet standards.| gabekangas.com
My thoughts on cross-platform development solutions given the rise in popularity of React Native.| gabekangas.com
I talk about internet radio and my attempt to bring it in front of a new audience.| gabekangas.com
{=html} tvOS isn’t getting the credit it deserves. I've found Apple TV the platform that I’ve had the most fun developing for in a long time. The television is the physically largest canvas currently available. What has been a central point of the living room has historically been the most difficult thing to break into. The number of people willing to build awkwardly horrible “Samsung apps”, for example, are very few.| gabekangas.com
I chronicle my time as a user and employee of the much-loved music streaming service.| gabekangas.com
After a year of development The Bat Player went live on Roku's Channel Store. The Bat Player first went public in September of last year. This means if you knew the right Roku Channel Code you could install it on your device. I put up a web site to make this easier, and shared it with a couple specific communities like the Roku forums and Reddit's Roku subreddit. My goal all along was to get it available in their mainstream directory.| gabekangas.com
{=html} Ask yourself, "Do I know anybody who's developed anything for the Roku Media Player?" More than likely the answer is no. If you ask others you might get get some response, but more than likely nobody you know has done it either. And that's why I wanted to throw up a little piece about building for the Roku.| gabekangas.com
I haven't seen a drum corps live since I was in The Racine Kilties in 2004. I don't know if it was me doing the Chinese New Year parade with The Renegades this year, or if enough time has passed where I was ready to see a show again, but I did. DCI West at Stanford took place this weekend and I thought I'd chronicle a few thoughts I have about the activity (as ruled by DCI).| gabekangas.com
It's still in beta, and I'm still happily iterating over all of the features of the application, but I wanted to share the tools I used, the services I take advantage of, and overall tidbits that might be useful to fellow developers about how I've been building TastemakerX. Maybe you can in turn share some things with me. Tools that made my life easier. ——————————- Spark Inspector Spark Inspector Both it and Reveal popped up around the same time, but since then I've been u...| gabekangas.com
LIke with a lot of things in life I told myself I didn't want one. And then when it came down to it I realized I was lying to myself and I actually did. This was the story behind the Pebble Smart Watch. Once people started getting them delivered, and I read this review I knew I must have it. Luckily Criagslist exists and people were selling theirs. Watch acquired.| gabekangas.com
I'm not a fan of New Years resolutions, but there are some things I'd like to do in this next year. All very doable things, but if you think that in any way you'd be able to help with any of them I'd certainly be up for pointers! Contribute to an open source project that focuses on a) mobile and b) something I care about. (Note: I checked out the Colloquy source last night and started looking at their bug list to see if I could help with anything).| gabekangas.com
It's time for my mostly-annual "stuff and things" post. I've missed some years, but I think I have more new stuff this time around. I'll try and detail all of the software, hardware and services that I've used this year to make my personal and professional life better or more interesting.\ Software ======== Desktop (OS X) Xcode. Love it or hate it, I live in it. Actually, I don't know if I love it or hate it.| gabekangas.com
I'll probably upset a lot of people because this is something that people just don't talk about, and would be seen as weak if said out loud. But here it is: I'm sick of the male stereotype. You know how "woman, get in the kitchen!" is a totally not ok thing to say? For so many reasons, not just because it's demeaning, and it attempts to put someone in their place, but also as a person.| gabekangas.com
I was asked a few weeks back why I haven't written a post on my blog since I've been to San Francisco. I mean, there must be a lot of stuff to talk about, right? It's a pretty significant move and maybe the world wants to hear me blab about it. But I think in general I have been blabbing about it, but in more specific channels. But that's not to say I shouldn't have a larger periodic update.| gabekangas.com
My time in Omaha is coming to an end. On Friday, February 3rd I'll have relocated to San Francisco. When looking back at the past three years it's hard to decide what to put in this rather long retrospective post. But I'll use it as my last opportunity to highlight, clarify, give thanks, and try to explain why I'm taking on this new adventure. I moved to Omaha thinking I'd have to dodge cows on the way to the office every day.| gabekangas.com
I haven't updated many people on what i've been up to lately. And there's a simple reason for that: embarrassment. It's not fun to talk about being a failure. Part of me didn't want to be dramatic in telling a story and having people read into things, but I'll try to be a little more transparent and see where that gets me. Maybe the last thing you knew was that Hollrback launched, I was traveling around talking to amazing people about it, and getting awesome feedback.| gabekangas.com
So on the recommendation of my friend @sethhwilson in the hour before the deadline I half-assed an email to @ryanwanger of Boulder Startup Week for their "We'll fly you to Boulder free" offer. They were going to hand pick a handful of people and bring them in for the event. I honestly kind of forgot about it, and I really only did it as one of those "take advantage of opportunity because you never know" kind of things that I'm trying to be proactive about.| gabekangas.com
I was planning on doing the @lasertron Radvent project more than I did, but after the first few I wasn't able to resonate with it anymore. They involved things that didn't make sense to me. Either making things, or interacting with people. Christmas parties, neighbors, etc. I didn't have any of these and I felt pretty lame. So instead I figured i'd write this blog post about 2010. I wish I could say I have a lot of detailed things to talk about that happened in the past year, but I really don't.| gabekangas.com
{.size-medium .wp-image-14032 .aligncenter width="232” height="300”} Write a letter of love to yourself to read again in one year. And then some stuff that has to do with getting away from the computer. If you haven't noticed, I'm going to ignore the parts of this project that deals with getting away from the computer and doing things. That's not really my jam. Journal, stamps, special pens, beautiful paper, stickers, glue, etc... not things I own.| gabekangas.com
{.aligncenter .size-medium .wp-image-13905 width="231” height="300”} Spend 15minutes on a drawer, table or surface & make it pretty. I don't do pretty. See you tomorrow.| gabekangas.com
So @lasertron is doing a thing, beginning with her blog over at PrincessLasertron.com, where she's issuing a blog topic every day throughout the month of December. She asked some others if they'd be willing to join her, and here I am. I'm not so bold to think I'll actually blog every day this month, but I'll try. Enough of that, here's #1. @lasertron writes: {.aligncenter .size-medium .wp-image-13648 width="231” height="300”} What were you doing five years ago today?| gabekangas.com
{.aligncenter width="640” height="360”}Thanks to the organization team of Barcamp2010 here in Omaha it was another great event. Learned some stuff and had some fun. Also thanks to everyone to indulged me in my attempt for a lunchtime jam session. I can't honestly say it was the most musical thing ever performed, but we all had fun anyway :) Thanks to everyone who took part! It was nice to mix things up a bit.| gabekangas.com
I've been thinking about what I wanted to do for Barcamp this year. I was chatting over lunch today with this week's Coworking Wednesday participants about how I wished there was something different I could do. Something collaborative and break the mold of what an unconference session should be. I mentioned music stuff and @whatevermatt mentioned a drum circle. I thought about that a while (at least 2 to 3 minutes) later that day (today) and thought I'd see if I could pull something off.| gabekangas.com
In 2006 I was diligently working on my (still unreleased) new album "The Longest Post". With that I decided to create a couple music videos both as an experiment on if I could make something fun, and to have a visual way to distribute some songs. A couple apartment moves later and the hard drives with the music videos were lost. Until now. In October, 2010 I found the hard drives while cleaning out my music studio and decided it was time to show them to the world.| gabekangas.com
I haven't done a music recommendation post in a while. It's certainly not weekly, but I'm not changing the naming. I don't know, stopped feeling inspired, I guess. Well fuck if I don't feel inspired now. I've always been a fan of Mark Mallman's. It started, like many of artists I enjoy do, seeing a show of theirs without knowing who they were beforehand. This is a prime example of the Gabe Kangas music/movie introduction theory.| gabekangas.com
I'm a person of logic. Things that I don't see I don't believe. Things that don't make sense I don't assume to be true. Faith isn't really a thing I take part in, and I do things when I see a reason to. I let logic determine my decisions in life, but unfortunately there's circumstance where not only do I let that slide, but it goes completely in the other direction.| gabekangas.com
Alright, stay with me. I promise you'll get something at the end. I don't promise you'll like it, though. I attended TechStars for a Day in Seattle. If you want to know what this rockin' organization does check it out. But in short, they are a business accelerator. Get your company off the ground in the most awesome way possible. It seemed like a classic case of serendipity. I was behind the controls at Big Omaha helping the speakers tell their inspiring stories when an email invite came in f...| gabekangas.com
I struggled on what should be included in this post. A part of me thinks having a veil over personal feelings about things that I'm doing are a good thing. But that's the opposite of transparency, and I do want to take as many people on the wild ride with me as possible. A while back my buddy Frank said my next blog post should be about what I'm doing. It wasn't until then that I realized from the outside (especially outside of Omaha), what I do, what my goals are, and my what daily routine i...| gabekangas.com
Writing a wrap-up post about South by Southwest I would imagine is similar to writing about being teleported to another universe for a short time. A universe where there are no words that a human can make to explain the things they saw. So in that vein let me tell you that it was so.… yeah. Thanks everyone, have a great weekend. Alright, I'll give this a shot. It was everything I thought it could be, and more.| gabekangas.com
One of the things I've convinced myself of in this past year is that if there's something I want to do, then I should do it.{.alignleft .size-medium .wp-image-1523 width="218” height="240”} Sounds simple right? But not so much. In this particular example, South by Southwest, it's something I've wanted to attend for years. But instead of just deciding I was going to go I wallowed in my cube and read/watched what was going on in the week long center of the world.| gabekangas.com
I haven't blogged for quite a while. And that's not a bad thing. It's been a couple months now since I left my position at West, and I haven't said a word about it since then. There's no real reason why except I've been super busy. Busy with a handful of really awesome things. I've had the chance to work on some really neat projects lately, and I'm really looking forward to continuing it.| gabekangas.com
I meant to put this together weeks ago, but I guess things got in the way. But Windows 7 is released only once in a lifetime, so I couldn't just forget about it. Earlier this month @shinyhat threw a Microsoft sanctioned Windows 7 launch party and he invited me along for the ride. It had all of the stuff that Microsoft sent him. Posters, streamers, playing cards, poker chips, a puzzle, and even a Microsoft trivia game.| gabekangas.com
This isn't the first time I've made a post like this. In fact I used to make a yearly recap of all the tools, software, hardware, etc that made me productive that year. For whatever reason I didn't this past year. Not sure why. Guess I was busy hanging out with you or something. Inspired by Andy Peter's Barcamp Omaha talk I thought I'd share some non-obvious things I use to do things on a daily basis.| gabekangas.com
I'm a fan of transparency. I like to know what people are up to, and I think there are people that like to know what I'm up to as well. This includes the background and emotions behind major life decisions. So here's my story. If you're reading this you already know it's been a rough couple months as far as my career path goes. I knew I needed to move elsewhere, but I didn't know in what capacity.| gabekangas.com
{.alignright width="245” height="245”}A few weeks ago I purchased the Mophie Juicepack Air in preperation for my trip to Chicago for my class reunion. When I announced on Twitter I was picking one up I had a few requests for my thoughts on it after some use. Admittedly, the new iPhone 3GS has substantially better battery live than the 3G. Very noticeable. However, there are times and situations where that's still not good enough.| gabekangas.com
I didn't originally want to go. But to everyone who told me I should: Thank you. Everyone knows I didn't know what to expect. But now that the Grant Community High School class of 1999 reunion is over I can't help but look at those four years far different than I did before. I'll be honest and tell you that I really did discount that time. It wasn't awful, but I was glad it was behind me.| gabekangas.com
Wow, ten years since I graduated high school. Many probably will say "it seems like only yesterday" but to me it seems much, much longer. In fact, to be honest, I hardly remember those four years at all. Sure some special moments stand out that included performances or things with friends, but on the whole... really, nothing. I wasn't planning on going to the reunion. It wasn't until my friend Becky from high school asked me to go did I cave and signed up and booked a flight.| gabekangas.com
{width="170” height="170”} The Gabe Kangas Association for Awesome (GKAFA) is proud to announce they will be sponsoring this year's Omaha Bar Camp. As you may know The Gabe Kangas Association for Awesome is the branch of Gabe Kangas who's goal is to spread awesome both in local and remote markets. When the opportunity arose to take part this year team awesome jumped at the opportunity. GKAFA has a long history of spreading awesome via sponsorships.| gabekangas.com
To anyone from work who may come upon this post: hi. If you would have asked me what I wanted to do for a living even just a few years ago I would have described the job I have now. Heck, even as a kid I envisioned (after wanting to be an astronaut) sitting in a big building somewhere with lots of people in front of a computer cranking out tasks.| gabekangas.com
Hope you all have a great one. I'm on call starting 5pm today! You're supposed to watch this every Labor Day.| gabekangas.com
{.size-thumbnail .wp-image-1241 width="150” height="150”} Friday morning started like any other Friday morning. By Friday afternoon I found out that Andy Peters and I were headed to Chicago that night to see one of the last performances of our favorite band, Nine Inch Nails. A while back Skid Vis surprised Andy and I by telling us he hooked us up with tickets to the completely sold out Nine Inch Nails show in Chicago.| gabekangas.com
Per recommendation of @EternalCow I built a bot that puts a much needed appearance of Admiral Ackbar (@AdmiralAckbar_) on Twitter. He's warning (as he should be) to all who will listen that "It's a trap!" This is funny, but the most entertaining part is the fact that people are replying back. See below for a real time update of responses to "It's a trap!" I'll soon have itsatrap.org up :P| gabekangas.com
If you remember back I recently had #TweetDinner. Where people a web site decided who my "closest friends" were all got together for dinner and hung out. It was a good time, I consider it a success. It doesn't hurt that they were cool people. So I think it's time for a new social experiment. Currently I follow 340 people on Twitter. Some of them are automated entertainment sources, many of them are out of the area.| gabekangas.com
It's no secret how much I respect my all of my peers in Omaha. Some of the most talented, most creative, friendliest, amazing people ever. But as I learn more about organizations and people here I do see a thread that is often a strong bond between many of them. And that is the Christian belief community here. There are some really great organizations, from Core Community to inCommon. Smart people in like minded organizations who in a very modern and effective way get together as groups to...| gabekangas.com
Word to your mother.{=html}{=html} {=html} {=html} {=html}{=html}{=html} Gabe performing Ice Ice Baby in Bellevue from Gabe Kangas on Vimeo.| gabekangas.com
I had a nice trip to Seattle last week. It was really for work purposes, they were sending me to F5 LTM training, but I knew I'd be able to make it into a fun vacation as well. I had no plans when going there, but that rarely stops me from having a good time. {.alignleft width="206” height="155”}Thanks to Twitter, and my blog, you're able to see a step by step recap of my whole trip by accessing my Twitter archive page for the week.| gabekangas.com
Well who would have thought? The fine people over at Silicon Prairie News were interested in talking to me about the weirdest meme to ever hit Twitter (aside from #MufasaMonday I suppose), #retweet_thursday. They told me they weren't sure who was behind it at first, but figured out it was out of Omaha somewhere, so they pinpointed it to me. I never really made it public that the bot was run by me, but I wasn't really hiding the fact either :)| gabekangas.com
I'm going to be a real ass-hat with this post, and I apologize. I'm not going to tell any details, but instead I'm just going to type and you can be annoyed afterwards. I've been working on a project. And at first I thought it was going to go one direction, but then I decided to take it a different direction in my execution of it. Previous projects I've worked on usually have a life cycle that includes me wanting to build something, I work a lot in all of my spare time on it, putting out a ...| gabekangas.com
Yesterday it was announced that the office I used to work at in Chicago, and who many still work at will be closing at the end of October. I understand that business is business, but these are my friends. Friends that believed my company when they acquired it a couple years ago and said "this office and everyone in it is going nowhere. We value the employees here and we're keeping this Chicago office.| gabekangas.com
So being this is my blog, and I'm really bad at hiding things, once in a while I'll probably write about something pretty unpopular. This will be one of those posts. I'm taking the opportunity this day of independence to write about our military. Now if you're one of those "rah-rah" folks who reply with things like "you should be thanking them for fighting for you" then please do us both a favor and stop reading right now.| gabekangas.com
This post was originally published at ChannelOmaha.com where Gabe is a guest blogger. I can’t think of a more inappropriate first blog to ChanelOmaha.com than a story about how I traveled to Kansas City. But that’s just how this is going to be. On Wednesday night I traveled to Kansas City to say goodbye to an old friend. I arrived, got comfortable, and heard him tell the same stories he’s told so many times before.| gabekangas.com
In the years I've had this blog I've rearely talked about the nitty-gritty of running an IRC channel. In theory, there's not much to it. But in reality, it's a community of people, many who have been there for many, many years. This is where a large group of my friends are. All types of people from all over the world. But lately the topic of respect and seniority has been brought up more and more often.| gabekangas.com
What great conversation between Gary Vaynerchuk, the internet and I today. There's something invigorating about a really constructive conversation where you come out of it feeling better about the topic than when you went in. While it's a great business and brand technique, the world would in general be a much better place if it happened more often. Gary reached out to me after reading my blog post that I had Alex (@alexpgates) check out, and wanted to clear up any miscommunication with me,...| gabekangas.com
I'm not going to talk about what Big Omaha was, or was not in the "Big Omaha brought the counties best and brightest creative blah blah blah" type thing. I'm not going to write much about what the speakers had to say. I'm going to tell my tale of the first ever Big Omaha conference and the parts that mattered to me. This will probably be long and spread with random photos.| gabekangas.com
Big Omaha is a success. No doubt. The friendships that were built, the inspiration that filled multiple venues. It's a story that will be retold many times for the next year. But the real story took place online yesterday, when it was discussed how really awesome I am. Names hidden to protect the innocent. [17:56] NewFriend from omaha? [17:56] yep [17:57] we met at the Big Omaha thing [17:57] ohhh [17:57] what did you think of gabe?| gabekangas.com
In time I'll absolutely make a post about BigOmaha. How can I not? But until then, check out this compilation (that's pretty speaker specific, but whatever) of photos that is visually entertaining, but not at all showing the energy of the event. {=html}{=html} {=html} {=html}{=html} Big Omaha from Mike Malone on Vimeo.| gabekangas.com
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I opened my blog editor here with an idea of what to post. Then I got side tracked, and I no longer remember what it was I planned on talking about. So instead this is just going to be a catch-up post. Sorry about that. I bought a new camera the other day. With BIGOmaha coming up I needed a way to document the event, so off to Nebraska Furniture Mart I went.| gabekangas.com
{.alignnone .size-full .wp-image-846 width="254” height="188”} Big Omaha is coming up. It's really your last chance right now to get tickets. I'd really love to try and convince you to go, but at this point, if this is your kind of thing... you're already not willing to miss it. However, if you're out of town, out of state... whatever, this is a GREAT chance to visit the amazing city of Omaha. Seriously.| gabekangas.com
I love hearing people's plans for the future. If they're graduating from college, or just have their first real job and have big plans... hearing that stuff is cool. Having vision and goals are what keep people alive. You need to be driven to continue to do something. A stagnant life isn't really life at all. I've been thinking about that a lot lately. What is my next step? And I don't mean personally, or professionally.| gabekangas.com
Real-ity.com has a long standing history. One that I don't take lightly. "Gabe's Digital Life v3.1337" at real-ity.com was born five or so years ago. Before that it was another, much more simple blog. And before that, collections of links. This dating all the way back to 1997. As my friend BobbyT once said, "I was blogging since it was just called updating a web site." But with the culture of the internet as it is, I felt the need to change with it.| gabekangas.com
Just wanted to say congratulations to Miss Erin Standley! She just won the Cut & Paste Chicago design competition! Now she's off to New York in June to compete again. She's quite the badass. Way to kick ass, Erin!| gabekangas.com
In celebration of it being Friday, I'm posting a song for everyone to listen to. What song is more appropriate on a Friday during lent than Rasptutina's "Rats"? Enjoy. Have a good weekend. http://dropbox.real-ity.com/tunes/02 - Rasputina - Rats.mp3| gabekangas.com
Happy post Saint Patrick's day. So maybe I was optimistic (or pessimistic, depending on how you see it) about Tweply and SMS functionality. Like other projects I've thrown together I felt a need that I couldn't find elsewhere, and then offered it to others. Except this time it's costing me more than I expected with people signing up for it. I love that people find it useful, but unfortunately I'm paying much more than I expected.| gabekangas.com
It's a really exciting time right now. It's South by Southwest conference/festival time! And you know as well as I do what that means! Nothing. I get really bitter this time every year. All the professional "consultants", "media experts", and "freelancers" all converge in Texas to talk about awesome things. While us lame kids with corporate jobs sit in our cubes and listen to them talk about how much fun they're having.| gabekangas.com
Just as a quick information dump, with regards to real apps (not jailbreak utils for the console) here's what I have on my iPhone so far: Utilities: * SBSettings\ * Winterboard\ * Backgrounder\ * IntelliScreen\ * Supreme Settings Apps: * Facebook\ * MySpace\ * Last.FM\ * Pandora\ * Twitterific\ * Tweety\ * NetNewsWire\ * Colloquy\ * Yelp\ * Urban Spoon\ * Wiki Mobile\ * Shazam\ * MCleaner\ * Simplify Media\ * Evernote\ * Cydia| gabekangas.com
As an avid mac enthusiast you probably just assume I've had an iPhone since the first version of the device was launched. You'd be wrong. I've been using a Treo650 on Sprint for many years. Before that, the Treo600. Before that a Treo 300. When I started using a QWERTY phone T9 wasn't even invented yet. My Treos over the years have been nothing less than a faithful companion. PalmOS has let me select from a wealth of applications, both free and paid, that help me do anything I needed.| gabekangas.com
+————————–+ | count(DISTINCT username) | +————————–+ +————————–+ 1 row in set (0.09 sec) I had to to go back to my SMS aggrigator service today and purchase more SMS outbound credits since the 400 I originally purchased were all used up. But that means it's being used, but that also means it's not exactly financially supportible by myself. I'll worry about that later like any good service. I might just use Twitter direct messages instea...| gabekangas.com
Some news to share about Owncast| gabekangas.com
