http://cclark.ziclix.com Ramblings on technology, photography and travel Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:03:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First I hope everyone will be participating in Earth Hour tonight at 8:30pm to 9:30pm in their local time zone. My blog has been pretty quiet recently because I've been busy getting up to speed at the new job.  We've re-branded ourselves and our product as Pulse Energy.  We had a ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2009/03/earth-hour-silence/  It was an extremely eventful holiday season for me.  Most significantly I was able to spend some quality time with people who are very important in my life.  Perhaps the biggest accomplishment was moving the rest of my belongings from a temporary stay with my brother in Wyoming for storage ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2009/01/small-pieces-coming-together/ I'm not very creative with names which makes me respect a name with an interesting background, twist or hidden meaning.   Since I met Martin Logan, a colleague at Orbitz, and listened to what he had built with Erlang and how passionate he was about the language I've kept my ears ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/12/whats-in-a-name/ People have been telling me if I can survive November I can survive the rainy and grey climate of Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest in general.  This November must be an anomaly because while there has been a lot of rain there have been some spectacularly sunny days.  Yesterday was ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/11/a-beautiful-november-sunday/ Grand Central is a service aiming to hide the complexities of modern communication behind a single phone number.  You request a number from Grand Central and via their web interface you choose your mobile, office, home or any other number ring when the caller dials your GC number.  Acquired by ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/11/grand-central-almost-hits-the-target/ I recently posted about how Fluid allowed me to get around the annoying need to restart Safari and lose all my tabs when I wanted to listen to WXRT on my speaker's using Rogue Amoeba's awesome Airfoil software. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="It's Okay!"][/caption]   An even simpler answer existed in the pesky ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/11/rogue-amoeba-beat-me-to-the-punch/ So many memes these days.  I think this one, which I found being propagated at I'm not here, is pretty cool.  The rules are simple: Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don’t dig for your ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/11/nearest-book-meme/ I recently moved from Chicago to Vancouver, BC.  Of course I miss family and friends.  I never was a huge fan of deep dish pizza.  With the close proximity of world class outdoor activities and the buzz around the 2010 Winter Olympics coming to town I haven't found myself waxing ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/10/keeping-a-chicago-connection-alive/ I've been saying I'd do it for a while but this post marks the start of my post-Chicago blog. Unlike Rideabout this will not be specific to my travels or a particular trip.  Although since I'm traveling now it might not seem that way initially. Started my morning in Chicago ... http://cclark.ziclix.com/2008/10/hello-again/