It’s last night at about 9:30p and I pull up Apple’s website to see what the availability would be for my Apple store at Willow Bend mall to have an iPhone 3G tomorrow. The website says it would be available in my flavor (white, 16GB) tomorrow so I began wondering what time I had [...]

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I couldn’t help myself.
I’m sure there are going to be another thousand reviews on the software but the beauty of the web is that people are also interested in my take. So I did three parts.
1) From a Apple fanboy perspective
2) From a financial services perspective
3) From a private ‘internal only’ to my guys at [...]

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Sliderocket is a service that I recently learned about through the FastcompanyTV stuff Robert Scoble is doing. He interviewed the founder of Sliderocket recently and I instantly was intrigued by the product. Since speaking is something I’ve been doing quite a bit of lately, having something that is entirely browser based and so [...]

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As my two-year Kate would say after a meal, “All done.” The 1st BarCampBank in Dallas is officially done. Pictures here. Videos coming soon.
It seemed like a whirlwind weekend but I’m thinking that’s the status quo for these things. We ended up having 29 people show up to the event and the [...]

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So I’ve dealt with a couple of experiences recently on people losing data and thought it might be worth while to explain how we are handling all of our data and how it has worked out for our family. This has gone through years of trial and error but I think we have a [...]

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Been spending time thinking about the generational differences that we have not only with older folks but there are also significant differences already being assumed by the younger generations. This is a bit of rant on an idea I have been watching with my daughter and how her generation is already taking a lot [...]

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WARNING! WARNING! Major Geekery being discussed below.
Hey guys,
I am in a bit of a dilemma right now. I am in the midst of trying to build a media server that will house all our music, photos, and videos and I don’t know what to do. I’ve looked around and found some solutions [...]

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