There’s an explanation of this on the QuickBase Blog
Suffice it to say we try to have fun at work beside delivering a couple of web platforms…
Cooking with QuickBase…
Robertson Davies…
On my list of inspiring writers, I completely forgot one person. Many years ago, probably in the early 90’s, Newsweek had the “perspectives” article at the beginning of each issue. One week they featured the comments of the Canadian Writer and former play actor Robertson Davies. As he looked like Santa Claus, I read the [...]
On going back to school…
So beside everything else I’m doing:
Husband and Father
managing 2 software development platforms
teaching Sunday School
writing the second book of the trilogy
experimenting with viral marketing stuff for my first book
…I started on the path toward my MBA this fall. I’m taking a stats class first and it has been an interesting experience. The first thing that I [...]
OK next experiment: Wikipedia
Given that my book is published, I wrote a Wikipedia entry on the book. I tried to follow the rules, we’ll see if the pediapowersthatbe allow a generally available work like an ebook to have its own entry on Wikipedia. From my reading they should. I tried hard to not violate the rules and put [...]
Another cool little trick for QuickBase
I created a little kiosk app using QuickBase for those who might be interested, and posted it on the QuickBase Blog
Adobe Max and the Intuit Partner Platform
The new Intuit Partner Platform was showcased at the Adobe Max conference this week. Great Job Guys!
This was the culmination of an enormous effort this year by our development teams, our business unit and Intuit, not to mention several 3rd parties that we worked with to provide things like our billing subscription service for the [...]
My next advertising experiment…Google AdWords for Urtaru
So I’m attempting to reach a slightly wider audience than facebook users who have marked Sci-Fi as an interest. So I’m doing the Google AdWords for my book Urtaru. I did see a bunch hits right after the ad started to run, including to my facebook page for the book. Not a lot but we’ll [...]
MS-Word gotcha..
So last night my younger son handed me an essay he was writing, asking me to read it. I started marking up the page and then asked him why didn’t he fix this in word?
He said that word wasn’t reporting any errors any more. I was incredulous so I went over and tried to [...]
A sad thing to watch…
My father was an Armenian born in Jerusalem, and lived there until the 1948 war. He told me stories about he and his brothers going to the Holy Sepulchre and serving mass there early in the morning. It all sounded so holy and mysterious. Part of me watches this and thinks Monty Python, and the [...]
OK tonight I’m trying a Facebook Ad experiment.
I’ve placed a facebook ad for my book Urtaru. I have no idea whether it will be seen or not, but if you see it, let me know. It’ll show up in the ad space on Facebook on the right side
Truly Historic Times…
8 days before I turned 5 years old, Neil Armstrong Landed on the moon. I remember watching it on a black and white Zenith TV.
I saw Nixon resign on a color Magnavox TV.
I saw a Polish Pope get selected saying Be Not Afraid.
I remember John Paul II appearing in Shea Stadium on a rainy day [...]
Starting to work on Urtaru II: The Judge…
So I’m working on the second book in the trilogy: Urtaru II: The Judge. My idea is to write this in the first person as Adam Philip-Augustus Urtaru, the 2nd of 3 of 3 in the prophecy writes a compendium of information for his son, who is the 3rd of 3. Essentially he will be [...]
John Cleese on Rupert Murdoch…
If you can get by the initial continental salivating over an Obama presidency, this is pretty funny.
You have to get all the way to the end, but I was already laughing pretty hard and then I completely lost it.
