2008

off to the Great Hall for dinner. This is the same one where they filmed Hogwarts’ dining...

Solar Water Heaters Mandatory in Hawaii

Boarding, probably no more tweets until I get a sim card in England

Driving to the airport, and off to London!

GardenCamp in Downtown Bryan

photos from WWDC and the new location of BIL2009: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mg315/

am I the only one who never puts a suit in a suitcase? I wear it on the plane so it doesn’t...

cleaning out my camera for london, about to upload a few pics from california

This is the location of BIL2009 - Cal State Long Beach....

Awesome Trees in Long Beach.

Cool Windows

The Question of Global Warming

Why is everyon so slow, since when did ppl in Houston go the speed limit?

heading to houston for Green Drinks, spreading the word about GardenCamp...

I need some css help, anyone think they can help me display nested ul’s inline? see footer:...

Unlock code on eBay, grr

So hard getting my blackberry unlocked. Att store says call support, support says they don’t...

If you have an activist shirt, post a photo on our flickr group!...

I won’t be able to get the iphone until 9/24/08 - stupid 2 yr contract rule

wow, two girls flaked on me today. One was expected, but still…

“Could this be seen as an example of “correlation does...”
— me, on Paul Kedrosky: Save a...

Hands Free Musical Instruments

Big Green Bus

sign up for GardenCamp! July 19 https://barcamp.pbwiki.com/GardenCampBryan

InnovationCamp Austin

billerickson: http://twitpic.com/2xsk Atari Matt

We just gave our talk on alternative work environment, great crowd and discussions

billerickson: http://twitpic.com/2w5d innovation camp...

At innovation camp in Austin

Marking your Twitter feed (or any imported...

BIL Shirts Now Available

I just finished watching an episode of Wooster and Jeeves (british comedy) and now I’m reading...

Picked up 200 BIL shirts from the printer, if you don’t have one, get yours now!...

Listening to old ppl’s convo: “my knee surgery was all done by robots” reminds me...

Heading to @carolineco

Longest day ever… And loving it

About to meet with @eschipul

Made it, now time to sleep, getting up in 5 hours

Driving to Houston, should be there around 2am

Going to be a busy day in Houston tomorrow

Houston Slideshows - Lebowski Bash at Caroline Collective -...

I’m at College Station, TX, USA - http://bkite.com/00HGk

Enjoying a glass of merlot and reading infinite jest. This is summer :)

Crap, I have a flat tire

best part of @carolineco party last night was Sexy Attack: http://tinyurl.com/5r7wmf

“The Johnny Gentle, Chief Executive who pounds a...”
— Infinite Jest, written 10...

Off to Houston for lebowski party at @carolineco

Making pizza from scratch, finished the dough, now to make the sauce while the dough rises

just found out one of my guerrilla gardens was destroyed by the city … sucks

just watched 4 TED Talks, and emailed 2 of the TED speakers :)

I’m about to order another 200 BIL shirts, if you want one add yourself to the list...

billerickson: http://twitpic.com/2ek9 My cat (and testing...

“I was at WWDC last week where they showed off the new...”
— me, on The Post Money Value:...

http://twitpic.com/2ek9 - My cat (and testing Twitpic)

I have way too much basil in my garden, if you’re in college station and need some send me a...

If you’re in England send me a message. I’ll be there next month and I want to be sure...

wow, most interesting plant ever: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/science/10plant.html

Setting my stuff up in our new office, creative space #2

At a play, my ex girlfriend is lead actress (still friends)

Just landed in Houston. I had a great time in California spending time with a lot of old friends and...

Security line at lax all the way outside

The security line at lax is so long i’m standing OUTSIDE :(

… Thirsty

Shuttle guy talking in code to dispatch “passenger 3 is thirsty, wants to go to lax instead of...

Shuttle guy trying to convince me my flight is at long beach airport and not lax. I wish it was, but...

Taking the shuttle to lax, should be in Houston in 11 hours…

Just started reading (and will likely finish today) the Drunkard’s walk: how randomness rules...

Tomorrow’s going to suck, 5 hours flying + 7 hours sitting around airports :(

Working on getting the food court open as well

This is looking good, we have (tenitively) reserved the whole CSULB student union for BIL2009....

Finally made it to CSULB, didn’t expect it to be that far of a walk…

beautiful day here in California (as usual), going to find a place outside to read for a little...

at the citizen space, working on BIL stuff. Hopefully we’ll be securing our location...

Having lunch in south park with @laughingsquid and a bunch of other ppl

Only in sf… Met the founder of engine yard, he overheard our discussion of ruby on rails

If you’re in sf, meet us at Martuni’s tonight around 11

Lost lolcat

CSS3 let’s you embed fonts… So many fonts will be misused (both license-wise and...

Installing my dev copy of snow leopard, hope this works…

My copy of snow leopard

iphone dock at wwdc

“Keep in mind that the new iPhone 3G $200 “price...”
— me, on Paul Kedrosky - iPhone...

Off to find food, then more wwdc

Looks like I can’t take pictures of anything here at WWDC, under nda for everything except...

just say it works everywhere in the world, no need to go through every country… #wwdc wwdc

built in GPS, finally #wwdc wwdc

today introducing iPhone 3G #wwdc wwdc

56% say iPhone too expensive #wwdc wwdc

New challenges: 3G, Enterprise Support, 3rd party application, more countries, More affordable!!...

is that the photo of Scoble getting his iPhone? #wwdc wwdc

Steve talking about the past year for the iPhone, hoping he says new one out today #wwdc wwdc

$99/yr with 20gb space for mobile me, replacing .mac #wwdc wwdc

everytime he says “not what you’d expect in a web application” …it’s...

stop saying “Web 2.0” #wwdc wwdc

real question, how much does it cost? #wwdc wwdc

finally, all my contacts in the cloud. already have cloud for email (gmail) and calendar (gcalendar)...

mobile me like MS Exchange for everyone, push email, contacts and calendars, #wwdc wwdc

apple announcement: mobile me #wwdc wwdc

enterprises can make iPhone apps that only run on their iPhones, #wwdc wwdc

“otomatically” download updates to apps, #wwdc wwdc

new software out in July, free for iPhone, $10 for iPod Touch. #wwdc wwdc

of course, steve had to diss the keyboard on all other mobile devices, #wwdc wwdc

parental controls, language support. oh wow, can draw chinese characters with fingers. #wwdc wwdc

iWork support, MS Office support, bulk delete/move of messages, save images from emails, scientific...

side by side comparison of loading site on 3g and edge, 23s on 3G (still long to me), and 59s on...

I hope they’re selling some here at WWDC, I don’t want to go find an apple store #wwdc

(I’m not taking any pictures because I’m in the overflow room) #wwdc

sega game for iPhone, Super Monkey Balls #wwdc

demos from real world apps from beta program #wwdc

drag n drop building of interfaces, looks good #wwdc

demoing interface builder #wwdc

those were API layers

API’s: Core OS, Core Services, Media, Cocoa Touch

the US Army uses the new iPhone, haha

35% of fortune 500 companies in beta program

enterprise iphone features, remote wiping of phone sounds cool

Hope the keynote is late, still not in room yet

Covered sign

4 lines…

Here 2 hours early and the keynote room is already filled :( going to overflow room

Got pass, much easier than expected

Heading over to moscone to get WWDC pass (going as Todd Huffman). Hope it works!

WWDC

Made it to rion’s. Sleep time.

Damnit, BART is closed. Gotta get back to a terminal to get a cab :(

Just landed at SFO, now I gotta figure out how to take the BART to @rionsnow’s place

Boarding. Will be at SFO in 4 hours

If you’re at IAH, msg me. I have 1.5 hours to waste before boarding

At IAH waiting for my flight to SFO

Gary’s Phone, after inviting a bunch of people to...

Me and Gary Vaynerchuk at the Wine Bar (via gdruckman)

crap, I used up all my biz cards last night at the @carolineco party. Heading to Cali with only my...

Backup biz cards

Had an amazing time at the @carolineco party, met some great people

With @garyvee, holy crap he’s awesome. Just called mark z and ze frank for BIL conference

I’ll be giving away “Change the World”...

Mswakini tanzania, Series of 15

Close up

our clothing line is now on twitter! @wearactivist

I will be studying “Moral Philosophy” at Oxford in July!

Little brother’s high school graduation

At little brother’s high school graduation

I will not use a service named after a word pinky used in ‘pinky and the brain’

will be in cali June 8-13, going to first 2 days of WWDC, might stop by long beach too

looks like I’ll probably be in SF next week, anyone want to meet up?

Deer by the lake, as we eat dinner

Cooking dinner in the park by the lake with @Toddhuffman and @michelegreere

At hut’s hamburgers in downtown Austin

Bringing the longcat meme to the real world

Looong cat loooves bbq

Wild chicken

At the enchanted forest in austin, hippy central

Heading to downtown austin with @toddhuffman, d me if you wanna meet up

Picking up @Toddhuffman then heading to the lake house

Off to Austin for the week

“NASA has also set up a twitter account where the Mars...”
— me, on Paul Kedrosky: Martians...

why is the word ‘peruse’ which means ‘to read thoroughly’ thought to mean...

Thoughts on Education

thanks everyone for the recommendations, found a guy!

anyone know a shirt printer that responds quickly? Gone through two guys who take weeks to respond...

Doctors say its a bad case of tonsilitis :(

I hate doctors offices, they’re always running late. I’ve been here over an hour…