November 3rd, 2008
Hmm, this is the second post regarding a major upgrade of Wordpress in a row — without any substantive posts made since forever.
I’m writing this from the Bay Area, where I’ve been visiting friends and re-centering after a busy and mind-numbing summer of all-consuming contracts that pulled me and my brain away from my web-related world.
I’m meeting some of Yallery’s San Francisco members tomorrow and will be participating in a conference this coming weekend. I’m hoping to be back in Yallery-mode when I return home to Boulder.
There are also some fairly large changes coming up in my life:
- I’m moving (Victoria, BC to be exact)
- I’m going full-time on Yallery again
- Yallery is going to be incorporated in Canada (British Columbia)
- There are some new people joining the Yallery team
I’m leaving Boulder at the end of January, but will be back visiting Boulder-Denver regularly as soon as the revenue-generating Yallery is unleashed.
This is a positive move for me and Yallery, I believe. There’s a small but strong start-up and tech community on Vancouver Island and I will be very close to friends and past clients in the Seattle and Vancouver areas and a commuter flight away from the Bay Area. It’s time to make Yallery real.
Posted in 2008, Boulder, Victoria, Yallery | Comments
June 11th, 2008
My blog software (Wordpress) was full of well known holes and it was well past the time I should have updated my installation.
After reading that scammers have started to exploit these holes, I decided I’d better update now rather than after a 12 year-old pwnd me. If this post is successful, it means the update has gone well.
Posted in Blog Stuff | Comments
June 4th, 2008
Dear Jennifer Williams of 6235 bears bluff road Wadmalaw Island, SC:
Get! Rich! Quick! Free!
Please stop forging my email address. I spoke with someone at the phone number you left all over the Internet (along with my email address) (843)442-9481, but he hung up after I asked him to ask you to stop forging my email address.
I’ve had my email address for well over 10 years. I like my email address. It is a pain in the ass when you and people like you forge my email address for the flood of get rich schemes you always seem to leave in your wakes.
Click to read list in original size
The following is a list of emails I started to receive after you thought it would be a good idea to submit my email addresses to the scams that entertained you this morning:
- Jennifer You are Approved - Immediate Response Required - You requested this information.
- URGENT MESSAGE: (843)442-9481 - Jennifer Williams 6235 bears bluff road - Wadmalaw Island, SC 2948
- *** Please VERIFY YOUR EMAIL for MyPoints ***
- M&M’s, Plain or Peanut Survey
- Can you hear the Thunder? Blackberry(R) Thunder
- jennifer, Can you Type?
- jennifer, Feeling a little lucky?
- The Williams family qualifies for up to $5,000 - You requested this information
There were probably more pieces of spam, but I added the scammer’s address blocks to my anti-spam appliance when they started to repeat after 15 minutes — and also suggested that they be added to a global spammer list.
You may also receive a call from Bellsouth.net, because you left your IP address (70.144.38.63) with all of these scammers, conveniently enabling me to identify your ISP.
Who is this Jennifer Williams and why is she forging my email address for all these scams?
Please stop signing up for get rich scams with my email address and get a job or something.
Posted in Rants, Scammers | Comments
June 2nd, 2008
I saw this out of my home office window tonight and had to grab a camera and get a clearer look.
Amazingly lit clouds 1
Amazingly lit clouds 2
I’m guessing that the sun light is blocked from below by the mountains to our west leaving radiant tops — pretty incredible. If I wasn’t half-naked when I ran out to get these photos, I would have run to the park with my EF 20mm 1:2.8 wide-angle to capture the whole row of clouds.
Click on the photos for a larger picture.
Posted in Boulder, Photo of the Day | Comments
June 1st, 2008
My mother and I did our annual trip to New Mexico a couple of weeks ago. Though our trips are always relaxing, our primary interest is in visiting all the galleries we can fit into our time there and seeing great art (a close second would be finding and eating great food!).
The following works found their way into my focus and into my collection:
Yei Mask Sculpture by Elijah John, son of David K. John. This piece was part of a show of artwork sold to support his travel to China in search of his Navajo roots. My mother has one of his father’s Yei Masks in her collection.
Three new miniature seed pots created by Julio Mora. I met Julio during the 2005 Santa Fe Indian Market, at the Frank Howell Gallery where he was working as part of a Mata Ortiz potter demonstration. The piece he was working on that weekend became the first of his works in my collection.
A seed pot in the Mimbres style by Acoma potter Rachel Concho, sister of Carolyn Concho, who’s works are already in my collection.
The highlight of my art buying spree: "Observational Notes on Lepus" by Timothy Chapman, recently featured in Southwest Art magazine. The second my mother and I saw this painting, we both knew it would be mine. I love this piece.
These pieces are also now included in my Yallery collection. (and yes, I do collect rabbit art)
The worst part of our trip has to be our stay at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, where virtually anything that could go wrong, went wrong. My mother and I each paid for a night of our stay in Santa Fe at this Hilton — by the end of our stay, my mother received her money back and I received a credit of the 35,000 HHonors points I paid plus an additional 40,000 “oops sorry” points. Thanks to the manager for trying to put things right.
Posted in Art, Travel | Comments
May 31st, 2008
I’ve been living in Boulder since early 1999 and every year since, as Memorial Day approaches, I’ve thought that doing the Bolder Boulder 10K Race would be a cool Bouldery thing to do.
Waiting for the race to beginThis year, my mom was visiting and in planning our time together, we decided to enter the 30th Bolder Boulder and join the “2 Hour” walking waves. We finished and my time was 1:43:21.78 (averaging a 16:39 mile) — my mom’s was around the same.
We’re planning on entering next year’s race and improving our time.
Posted in 2008, Boulder, Events, Exercise | Comments
May 31st, 2008
Yallery.com is still softlaunched — meaning that we’re not “officially” promoting our services while we work through some important issues and implement remaining features.
That said, early this month, I presented our service at the Denver Boulder Founders Meetup and the Boulder Denver New Technology Meetup to share our progress with the local tech and entrepreneurial communities.
As I discuss Yallery.com with people, it became increasingly obvious that I needed something other than old and unrelated business cards to hand out. I was also planning a trip to Taos and Santa Fe in New Mexico and thought a postcard would be handy as they are the promotional “lingue franca” of the Gallery industry. I designed and ordered some cards and postcards.
Another obvious need was stickers — It’s a Web2.0 rule I think. I began to look around and ask friends about sticker printers. It came down to two companies, and ultimately one — a local company named Sticker Giant.
Yallery.com moves into meatspace
John Fischer, founder of Sticker Giant heard that I was considering another company to print up our Yallery stickers and made an incredibly generous offer to print up our stickers. I’ve had one of each on my Powerbook since they arrived and they are high quality. Thanks John, we’ll be ordering our future stickers from you.
I was highly impressed with the quality of the product from my initial Overnight Prints order — the postcard and my business card were produced in Kentucky and matched my design exactly. Unfortunately, my second order was produced in California and while the reverse is the same quality as my original card, the front gradient and colors look extremely washed out — very dull and ultimately inconsistent. My email to Overnight Prints about this was ignored and I think my future printing will be done by someone else.
Posted in Yallery | Comments
April 5th, 2008
While exploring the hammockverse earlier today, I decided to interrupt my laptop reading to look over some of my older blog posts. It seems that my first blog post was made on Thursday April 5, 2007 at 6:53pm.
In this year, Wordpress claims the following statistics:
There are currently 119 posts and 18 comments (not including the IntenseDebate comments), contained within 51 categories. Now I don’t remember making a post nearly every third day, but who knows — I could be a sleepblogger.
I hope to at least double the first two metrics in Jennlog’s second year.
Posted in Announcements, Blog Stuff | Comments
March 27th, 2008
Wow, so this is my first post in March. I’ve been meaning to post but I’ve been busy with Statuspalooza and a number of other things this month.
I ended last month in California, working on a contract in Sacramento. I returned to Boulder on March 1.
The next week was a very busy event week for Tech/Start-up folks in Boulder with Open Coffee, Silicon Flatirons’ IP Law Panels at CU and the NewTech Meetup all occuring on Tuesday, then the Tech Cocktail event happening at The Foundry on Thursday.
On March 13th, the Boulder County Business Report published an article about the Boulder TechBootstrap project Patti Miller and I have been developing.
Statuspalooza took a fair bit of my attention and energy this month, because not only did I need a new work visa, but I needed a new passport. With the exception of a very grumpy US immigration agent (who felt I had misrepresented my experience to the US government in 2000 and therefore demanded that I re-substantiate my claim to work in the US on this application or be denied entry), it all went very smoothly.
Statuspalooza Tour 2008:
- Tues March 18, 2008 - Afternoon: Arrive Toronto
- Tues March 18, 2008 - Afternoon: Passport Photos taken
- Wed March 19, 2008 - Morning: Passport Application submitted
- Thurs March 20, 2008 - Afternoon: Passport Picked Up
- Mon March 24, 2008 - Afternoon: US Visa Application Approved
- Mon March 24, 2008 - Evening: Depart for Denver
I spent the week at my parents’ place. It was nice to relax for a while and visit over Easter, which I haven’t done in years.
There’s a Yallery update that’s about half finished that is meant to standardize our css implementation. I hope to create a more formal document structure that will enable an easier fix for Windows browser issues (mainly font sizing and layers). I’ve also spent some time looking into IE6 fixes and workarounds and concluded that there will never be an IE6-compatible version of Yallery, so upgrade your old nasty Windows browser.
Lastly, Billie the neighbor cat has gone missing. He hasn’t been by to visit in over a month and a half, so it’s been pretty lonely without my keyboard-hogging head-butting bud around.
Posted in 2008, Billie, Boulder, Canada, Toronto, Yallery | Comments
February 27th, 2008
Last night, as we crossed from Nevada to California, I noticed Frontier’s map go a little twilight zone-ish.
going 0mph 881,089 ft above california
Posted in Random | Comments
