October 2009 Archives

Deef in Texas

Before this evening, the closest I’ve ever been to Texas has been either northern Colorado or Florida, depending on how you want to measure geographical/cultural distance. Next thing you know, I’ll be visiting California — scary thought!

Travel was pretty boring, all told. I got caught up on E-Mail (offline) during one of the flights, and played Bejeweled on the other, with a stop at Chick-Fil-A in Atlanta (albeit a rushed one, since I’d arrived in Concourse C, had a flight leaving out of Concourse B, and it was in Concourse A).

Wednesday afternoon in Manchester is apparently a great time to fly. The airport is dead quiet. No lines for check-in, security, or food. Way better than flying out of Boston.

Oh, and I should probably mention why Deef is in Texas. I joined the National Association for Printing Leadership (NAPL) a little over a month ago, hoping to improve my understanding of the industry and also to improve my company’s foundation by figuring out and implementing some best practices for the printing side of things, much of which looks like it’ll carry over into the technology side as well.

These guys have a conference every year for owners of smallish print shops, which happens to be in Austin, TX this time. So, here I am. It should be fun!

Unreleased Product has #1 Position in Google

Just for curiosity’s sake, I did a search yesterday for the name of a product that I haven’t released yet, and which I’m pretty sure I haven’t mentioned anywhere (by name, at least) on the web.

Imagine my surprise when I found it already has the #1 position in Google for its name!

Freaky. But it does explain why some people have already found said unreleased software program that was in theory only accessible by knowing the right domain name to type. The domain name is descriptive enough that a search on other terms would let you find it.

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