Robert's Technology Journal

Welcome Igniters, I hope you enjoyed my talk tonight. This is my wonderful website. I know I haven’t updated in a while, but I have been working a new design. I hoep to have it ready in the near future. Please check back soon. Thanks for coming.

Hey everyone, just a quick update on me. I found out yesterday that I have been selected as one of the speakers for Ignite Salt Lake 4. The title of my talk is called: Utah Culture Shock or: Why I gave up everything I know and love to move to this frozen waste land. It’s an in depth comparison between the South Carolina’s laid back Low Country and the busy lifestyle of Utah’s Wasatch Front I looking forward to speaking on March 4th. Hope to see you there.

One of my new year’s resolutions this year was to increase my productivity at work. In my efforts to find a way to become more productive I stubbled across the Pomodoro Technique. Simply put the Pomodoro Technique is a series of twenty five minute time blocks of focused activity with short breaks in between each time block. Wanting to know more I picked up a copy of Staffan Nöteberg’s book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated.

Over the weekend my Macbook power supply failed. This is the second power supply that has failed me. A quick search of the Internet revealed that I’m not the only one experiencing this problem. After doing a little investigating I think I may have found the solution as to why the power plugs are failing.

When I got home today this was on my front porch. It looks like I’ll be spending tomorrow night installing it now that I found out how to do a clean install with the Windows 7 upgrade media. I think I’m also going to install Fedora 11 in a dual boot configuration.

If you recall I recently applied for first oDesk job. I was hired for the job, and recently taken on a second oDesk job. Thus far I have been happy with my experience, however I have learned a few things that I would like to pass on to would be oDesk providers.

Well I’ve been trying to pick up some extra work. I’ve tried to find some local consulting jobs in Utah, but alas I haven’t found any yet. It may be that I’m not really looking hard enough or it just might be just slow right now. One idea that I’ve been tossing around is using oDesk for consulting work.