Christopher Allen's Ephemera Blog

• 06:42 The dawn pushes the shadows off of the mountains. Morning in Palm Spring is quite bracing, but will be warm later. twitpic.com/2n00g #
• 06:51 @gordonmattey for good hotel deals this year use priceline and search online. I was in Las Vegas a month ago in a nice hotel for 25 a night. #
• 07:02 Used iPhone app VelaClock to time the sunrise and the various kinds of twilight this morning. Good for photography twitpic.com/2n0m9 #
• 17:23 Taking Palm Springs Aerial Tramway to top of Mount San Jacinto, the mountain I took a photo of this morning. twitpic.com/2ntrl #
• 17:26 The other aerial tram, coming down: twitpic.com/2ntvn #
• 17:28 Temperature in the 80s in Palm Springs, short sleeve weather--but there is still snow up here, and jackets needed twitpic.com/2nu02 #
• 17:32 View from top of Mt. San Jacinto, elevation 8516 feet, looking back at Palm Springs: bit.ly/154fDB twitpic.com/2nu66 #
• 17:46 A look at the State Wilderness on other side of Mt. San Jacinto: twitpic.com/2nuuj #
• 17:49 In the distance, the Salton Sea is below sea level: twitpic.com/2nuzk #
• 17:52 Lots of wind farms just this side of Joshua Tree National Forest, and north of Palm Springs: #greenpower twitpic.com/2nv5r #
• 18:04 Small two-shot panoramic of the southern portion of the San Andreas fault. Pt. Reyes all the way to here. Wow! twitpic.com/2nvs2 #
• 18:58 Shadow of mountain flows over Palm Springs. Getting cold up here so heading down for warm outside dinner. twitpic.com/2ny7c #

• 11:18 I'm on a programming retreat in Palm Springs. Found $40/night special at resort. Mountains behind, dev tools front twitpic.com/2lz6u #
• 15:45 Another photo from my room in Palm Springs. My programming retreat is going well-currently watching new ADC videos twitpic.com/2m8vs #
• 19:10 A Palm Springs twilight after sunset. Wind has died down, so I may be able to get some nice sunrise shots tomorrow twitpic.com/2mhvq #

• 10:49 In Palm Springs for week. Free wifi & very pleasant open to the desert air airport concourse: bit.ly/Wqg7 twitpic.com/2kro1 #
• 10:52 Another photo of the open-to-the-air Palm Springs Airport: twitpic.com/2krtl #
• 11:02 @allaboutgeorge At $13 for hotel internet, it doesn't take long until you can justify a cell modem. I use Sprint's USB modem, ~DSL speed. #
• 19:26 Recently bought a kindle after trying iPhone app. Trying it for a few weeks. So far I agree with bit.ly/xA47K who describes it well. #
• 19:31 @joehewitt Yes, rich text with formatting for iPhone is painful. And UIWebView even locally is slow. Hopfully faster in 3.0 or a new OS Lin #

• 14:02 @basilshkara the Mimo USB display isn't just for twitter, but status messages in general. Also, works great as screen for iphone simulator. #

• 14:52 I'm at the IDGA mobile roundtable--one of the problems is that most here are for iphone class devices, but some old-style coders are here. #
• 15:42 First day using a Hackintosh (dell mini 9 with OSX) at a conference #gdc09 rather then a MacBook Pro. So lite, seems to work well. I #
• 15:43 ...but the enter key is where the ' key is. Other then getting used to keyboard, I'm pleased. #
• 17:39 Twitter really needs a mute button so friends can filter out your tweets but still receive your DMs. (RT @chrismessina) #
• 23:39 Just got Mimo 710 USB display tinyurl.com/mimo710 - USB-powered. With mac drivers, works 800x480 or 480x800. Great for Twitteriffic. #
• 23:42 The Mimo tinyurl.com/mimo710 can be used as a second display for a Mac Mini (or 3rd for new Mac Mini or MacBook) and is very portable #

• 13:18 @adamshostack No, I don't know @austinhill #

• 14:58 I'm in San Francisco this week at #gdc09 #gdc2009 if anyone wants to chat about iPhone games, RPGnet, Skotos, or social games. Ping me! #
• 15:09 "Why the iPhone Changed Everything" bit.ly/ZvIs (RT of @joystiqall at #gdc09 ) #

• 19:28 Another week of conference season done, next week Game Developers Conference #gdc2009. Then finally can get start some real work in April. #

• 01:52 New post on Life With Alacrity "Community by the Numbers, Part III: Power Laws" tinyurl.com/dmk2je #
• 10:36 I'm at the "Online Community Business Forum" in Sonoma today and tomorrow tinyurl.com/bbvwpk #
• 10:38 I'm not formally presenting, but I'm hoping to show my new post "Community by the Numbers, Part III: Power Laws" tinyurl.com/dmk2je #
• 12:11 @sharakarasic Meet for lunch at #ocbf2009? #
• 13:47 Today I definately wish I could be in two places, the #igsummit2009 sounded interested but was too short, so I ended up at two day #ocbf2009 #
• 13:49 For my "iPhone in Action" followers, we've got a few new iPhone development related posts up at iphoneinaction.manning.com. Next week, 3.0OS #
• 14:03 Know any versatile artists looking for work? I would seriously hire someone who can do AI, white wall graphic facilitation, and a comic book #
• 14:37 Interesting thought at #ocbf2009: Is there a relationship between the skills of a good moderator and that of old-style soap opera watchers? #
• 15:16 Interesting quote: "If in the next few year's you are not participating in a social network, people will think you have something to hide." #

Tweets for Today

• 16:29 @wefollow #iphone #socialsoftware #collaboration #
• 16:29 Long download wait time for iPhone SDK 3.0 and beta firmware. #
• 16:33 @wefollow #iphone #socialweb #collaboration #