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10 Things I'm Great At

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:09:11 -0500

They say, "Do what you're great at, and find people to do the rest."

Here is what I came up with:

Sleeping - I can sleep on a dime. Once, I achieved polyphasic sleeping. This one is first because, as a new dad, I just can't get enough sleep, and it's always on my mind.
Guitar - I can play the hell out of that thing, and it keeps me sane.
Networking - I like people. Also, I like networks.
Photography - I can frame my subject, and I tend not to be self-conscious behind the camera.
Writing - I can just go start. I was blogging before there were blogs.
Traveling - I'm good to go, and I always document my travels.
Teaching - Animals, kids, adults, I like to teach.
Deciding - I trust my gut, and I'm usually right.
Learning - I'm like lightning.
Breaking - I always find the weak point.

Things I'm getting better at: Drawing, Singing, Piano, Forgetting, Remembering, Reading, and Compassion.

IPhone Apps: Why We Still Need the iPhone App Black Market [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:45:35 -0500

Interesting perspective.

Yay! [Flickr]

Sagolla — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:55:44 -0500

Sagolla posted a video:

Ben gets dumped on at his own party :D

Green All the Way Down [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:08:16 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

Neighborhood [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:07:34 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

Shot of a Shooter [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:07:07 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

While he's getting this shot.

Pond [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:06:47 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

Yar'd [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:06:24 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

Moist [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:05:52 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

Damp [Flickr]

Sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:05:36 -0500

Sagolla posted a photo:

YouTube - Motorcycle for your feet! [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:00:24 -0500

Have you seen these yet? Want!

YouTube - Self-defense Unbreakable Umbrella from Real-Self-Defense.com [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:53:16 -0500

That's one hell of an umbrella!

iPhone 3G Debuts to Accolades and Outages -- bub.blicio.us [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:38:58 -0500

Some of the nice folks I met in line on 3G launch day.

Oh My Science — replacing god with reason... one tweet at a time [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:11:28 -0500

Ha ha funny!

IPhone 3G: How to Fix iPhone and iPhone 3G Activation Woes [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:12:08 -0500

This is what happened to me - left it plugged in and voilà!

Network Glitches, Delays Mar iPhone 3G's Debut | Gadget Lab from Wired.com [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:51:55 -0500

"Sagolla was the first customer to emerge from the Apple store in San Francisco with an iPhone in hand."

TweetDeck [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:33:33 -0500

An AIR app, useful for creating Groups.

Twitter / Bobby Andersen: You know, I think Twitter's downtime is part of what makes it great. [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:34:28 -0500

Bobby Anderson, telling it like it is.

Gretta, Gretta Everywhere [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:23:57 -0500

My sister is traveling through Spain - and she's blogging it!

xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:25:48 -0500

Babies :D

The Website Is Down [del.icio.us]

sagolla — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:17:51 -0500

OMG - hilarious - I needed that.

Mac in Your Pocket

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:30:58 -0500

See this video segment featuring yours truly on Adobe TV! Here's the byline:

"Dominic Sagolla researches and tests new features for Adobe products in development. After hours, this diehard Mac enthusiast creates applications for the iPhone."

This was filmed in August of 2007, just after the first iPhoneDevCamp.

iPhoneDevCamp 2 at Adobe SF

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:55:57 -0500

iPhoneDevCamp 2
August 1-3, 2008
Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA

iPhoneDevCamp 2 is an upcoming not-for-profit gathering to develop applications for iPhone and iPod touch using both the native SDK and web standards. This is a follow-on event to the first iPhoneDevCamp, held in early July 2007. We are pleased that Adobe Systems has agreed to provide the venue again this year.

Attendees will include Cocoa Touch developers, web developers, UI designers, and testers, all working together over the weekend. Development projects will include both solo and team efforts. While some attendees will wish to work solo during the event, we encourage attendees to team up, based on expertise, to work in ad-hoc project development teams. All attendees should be prepared to work on a development project during the event.

Attendees will be able to:

* Create new applications for iPhone and iPod touch.
* Migrate Mac OS X applications to iPhone and iPod touch.
* Test and optimize applications for iPhone and iPod touch.

We have some exciting things in store this year - a few things we’re not quite ready to announce, but check back reguarly for updates on the event.

We are sensitive to the NDA that Apple has in place on the iPhone SDK. It is our hope that Apple will lift this NDA shortly after the public launch of the App Store. iPhoneDevCamp 2 will be held one month after the launch of the App Store. We have no intention of violating the terms that individual developers have in place with Apple on the iPhone SDK.

Confirmed sponsors so far include Adobe Systems, gogo apps, RadTech, Belkin, iLounge, Core Cases, Viewzi, ANSCA Mobile, The Apple Phone Show, and iWipes. We’re actively looking for additional sponsors to help make iPhoneDevCamp 2 a success. This is a not-for-profit event and 100% of sponsor dollars are used to pay for event costs.

The organizers of iPhone Dev Camp 2 include Raven Zachary, Dominic Sagolla, Christopher Allen, Chris Messina, Bart Decrem, whurley (William Hurley), and Blake Burris.

iPhoneDevCamp is not affiliated with Apple, Inc.

It's Official

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:29:14 -0500

I've moved over to the Google servers for my blog:

Official.dom.net

This is so that I can take advantage of the ever-increasing hotness of Blogger 2.0.

If you are looking for my blog-only feed, check here:

http://official.dom.net/atom.xml

So there you have it.

Leo Sagolla

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:35:04 -0500

We have a son!

Everyone, meet Leo;
Kid, this is everyone.

In this picture, the boy is one month old, laying on his grandmother's quilt.

Leo has a shortcode: 13o.org.

He's just smurfy, thanks!

For Which I Stand

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:50:52 -0600

Here are a few things for which I stand:

I stand against:

Greed
Bullshit
Ignorance

Just so we're clear.

XO Hack-a-Thon

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:15:00 -0600

Got an XO?

Let's get it together!

XO Dev Camp

Visit this group

Give One, Get One

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:17:57 -0600

The Give 1 Get 1 promotion ends today.

You should go for it!

Because OLPC the Real Deal.
Because it'll help someone you'll never meet.
Because it will change the way you think.
Because, trust me.
Because the XO is entirely Open Source.
Because the support is incredible.
Because it's instant 1337.
Because it will teach you things.
Because Nicholas is right.
Because Seymour is right.

But mostly, because you're going to want mine - and by then it'll be too late!

2007 Retrospective

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 14:15:04 -0600

I can be pretty tough on myself.

Every year about this time, I get bummed out, thinking about what I haven't yet achieved in my life.

Well, this year, I'm going to nip that in the bud by listing all of the things I did do this year:

Hmm, that's not a bad list.

Ok, I feel better now.

My Local Break

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:24:53 -0600

It's just a draft - set to some silly music that was handy.

I wanted to share what it's like where I surf.

More on the way!

10 Rules for Twitter

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:25:00 -0600

I've posted to Twitter almost 1400 times, and have come up with a few rules for myself, a "style" if you will:

Be Unique.
Try to be Descriptive or Declarative.
Limit yourself to one sentence only.
Avoid "right now" or other superfluous speech.
Avoid repetition.
Avoid all caps.
Links are nice.
Use @reply to provide context only - "D" instead of @reply for one-off conversations.
Don't hate, appreciate!
Stop and think about the words you are using, and who will be reading them.

I actually find #3 to be the most difficult one to follow, and #10 to be the most valuable. Again, these are just my own personal rules for me.

Must Twitter better!

Recently Played

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:18:56 -0600

Created using iTunes Signature Maker (just like last time):

Key:
Title
Artist
Album
Starting At
Ending At

If You're Going To San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair)
Scott McKenzie

0:00.0
0:05.2

Why Should I Cry For You? (extended mix)
Sting
Why Should I Cry For You? (Single)
4:22.8
4:26.0

Mad World (Remix)
Gary Jules
Donnie Darko
2:32.0
2:36.6

Jessica
The Allman Brothers Band
A Decade Of Hits 1969-1979
2:19.6
2:23.0

Tupac & Dr Dre - California love

1:10.5
1:14.9

Travelling Riverside Blues
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin [Disc 1]
5:00.6
5:03.6

Clocks
Coldplay
Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba
0:16.8
0:22.4

Friends
Joe Satriani
The Extremist
3:21.9
3:25.5

Surfing With The Alien
Joe Satriani
Surfing With The Alien
4:00.4
4:04.4

Reckoner
Radiohead
In Rainbows
4:35.6
4:37.8

Johnny Appleseed
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

0:35.0
0:40.0

Exodus Honey
Honeycut
The Day I Turned To Glass
0:00.0
0:03.8

Special Thanks
Dominic Sagolla
Home Again
0:00.0
0:02.8

Banana Pancakes
Jack Johnson
KFOG Live From The Archives 13
2:55.4
2:57.8

Untitled
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
KFOG Live From The Archives 14
3:17.9
3:20.5

Dominic Sagolla - Rock Yourself to Sleep (loop)
Dominic Sagolla - Music
0:04.2
0:08.4

Keep On Growing
Derek & The Dominos
Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
0:00.0
0:05.8

Surfer Girl
Beach Boys
1:12.1
1:16.9

Let It Die
Foo Fighters
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Gr
0:48.7
0:54.1

Pressure Suit
Aqualung
Memory Man
4:18.5
4:24.5

Fun!

Addicted to Apple

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:30:25 -0600

95%

I think I didn't get the A+
because I wasn't taking the test on my iPhone.

Standing Wish List

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:21:31 -0600

I'm building a Standing Wish List.
Just, you know, in case.

This site is Green

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:41:57 -0600

Thanks, Dreamhost!

How to Master the Short Form

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:21:33 -0600

Become a modern-day Hemmingway:

Live an interesting life. Each day = thousands of words.
Take pictures. Each one = ~1000 words.
Start blogging. Each hyperlink = ~100 words.
Get into Twitter. Each post = ~10 words.
Write fewer words more often. Each haiku = less than 10 words.

Pretty soon you'll find yourself thinking in short, finely-crafted phrases perfect for script, poem, or list publication.

Just remember the words of the great Jack Dorsey, "One could change the world with one hundred and forty characters."

On Top of the Bay Bridge

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:51:25 -0500

signal light
Originally uploaded by unaesthetic

No, I didn't take this (I wish), but it is completely rad nonetheless.

See the whole set on Flickr.

Rad.

There's our house.

Microconsulting

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:04:01 -0500

For you, I have a tiny consulting service:

Wis.dom.net

$4.99 for 140 characters or less.

Made with TextMarks.

See also, the Blog.

Think small.

Get wise.

iPhoneDevCamp at Adobe SF

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:41:36 -0500

It all started with a twitter.

Open source evangelist Chris Messina asked the world where to host iPhoneDevCamp from July 6th-8th. I wrote back, "What about Adobe?"

Adobe loves Web developers!

Chris introduced me to BarCamp organizer Raven Zachary, and we managed to book the entire Town Hall at Adobe San Francisco (site of ApolloCamp). Now we have room for hundreds of people, with Guest WiFi and everything.

Everyone here is excited about having folks over for a long weekend of coding and sharing ideas. Because iPhone hasn't been released yet, I put together this FAQ to help answer questions about the event.

Personally, I'm just excited to attend, but now I really must get my hands on one of those phones before July 6th!

Unofficial Media Lab Summer Reading List

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:12:12 -0500

Recently I came across the following list, compiled in an informal email survey by someone on the MIT Media Lab's mailing list. I wanted to share it with you, just so that you don't have to take my word that each of these books is excellent (ones I've read are in italics):

Recommended by More Than One Person:

Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Godel Escher Bach - Douglas Hofstadter
American Gods - Neil Gaiman

Also Recommended:

Stiff - Mary Roach
Dispatches - Michael Herr
The Age of Wire and String - Ben Marcus
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Deschooling Society - Iván D. Illich
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
The Glass Bead Game - Herman Hesse
Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
Assassin's Apprentice trilogy - Robin Hobb
His Dark Materials trilogy - Philip Pullman
Dies the Fire - S.M. Stirling
The Way Things Work - David Macaulay
The World is Flat - Tom Freidman
The Emperor's Children - Claire Messud
I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
Hyperion - Dan Simmons
Princes in Amber series - Robert Zelazny
Count Zero - William Gibson
Dune - Frank Herbert
Babbit and Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
The Beautiful and Damned - Scott Fitzgerald
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
How to Lie with Statistics - Darrell Huff
Betting on the Muse - Charles Bukowski
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Levy
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
The Code Book - Simon Singh
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Blink - Malcom Gladwell
Tipping Point - Malcom Gladwell
Freakonomics - Steven Levitt
Running with Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
You Got Nothing Coming - Jimmy Lerner
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

What's on your summer reading list?

9 Websites That Change the Way You Think

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:56:13 -0500

Flickr
You'll find yourself taking pictures with certain people in mind, or you'll find yourself anticipating the note you'll write on top of the picture!
Twitter / Twittervision
You'll start to think in short, pithy phrases about where you are and what you are doing.
VoIP Info
Realize that phone companies actually do suck, and that there are better, free tools out there that can change the way we communicate.
GMail
Stop thinking about folders and hierarchies, and more about searches.
Basecamp
You'll start to get really excited about checking things off!
Google Earth
Start to think in three dimensions about your city.
Blogger
You'll realize that blogging isn't as complicated as it's made out to be.
del.icio.us
Create your own mental taxonomy.
Wikipedia
Information is free, and anyone can be an expert!

Are there any other sites that have changed the way you think?

Follow Dom for Adventure

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:28:20 -0500

Follow me over the next three weeks, and you'll be sure to hear about:

Juneau, Ketchikan, and Sitka, Alaska
~~New York City, New York~~
[Update: not for me this time]
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California

First, a vacation with Mer and my parents (long overdue). Then, business for Adobe, and finally a surf tour over Memorial Day weekend. It'll be a blast, but you don't have to follow me to find out about it - just check my Twittervision page!

33 1/3rd Party

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Wed, 09 May 2007 17:39:07 -0500

First Kegger
Youngest Visitor (6 months)
Most People Over (33 people!)
Most People Sleeping Over (5 souls)
First Song Written at the House (Vote Obama!)
First Plasma Pong Tournament
Dom with Dom
Mitchell's Ice Cream Cake
Longest Party (9 hours!)

Thanks to everyone who came - we had a blast!

Quotes from a First Time Mac User

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:39:27 -0500

Dad got a new iMac last night, his first Apple product (besides the Shuffle) since his Apple IIe. Here are the highlights:

"Where's the computer?"

"How do I click this mouse?"

"Get an iChat account? What's Jabber?"

"Woah!! Ho ho ho!"

"I could actually watch things on this."

"Are there more Widgets?"

"Oh, wow."

"Wow."

"Let me say it backwards: wow."

"Your mother wants to press my Menu button."

"That is just beyond modern."

"I must buy more Apple stock immediately."

And that was just the first day. :D

The Death of Twitter is a Myth

weblog@dom.net (Dominic Sagolla) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 21:47:50 -0500

Getting overwhelmed with SMS or IMs from your Twitter list? Annoyed by random friend requests? Tried Twitter at SxSW and now you think it's about to Jump the Shark already?

Ease back on the throttle there, Fonzie. Twitter is no different than MySpace or Flickr or Blogger except in its immediacy and constant freshness, which accelerates everything. Every social web app goes through the same cycle of use/abuse/acceptance. You just have to master it, and not let it master you.

As I've experienced them over the last year, here are
The 12 Stages of Twitter:

1. Curiosity
2. Interest
3. Novelty
4. Excitement
5. Inviting everyone you know
6. Optional: Inviting the wrong person (skip to 9)
7. Massive use / Addiction
8. Slight abuse / accidental use
9. Annoyance / Frustration
10. Cutting way back
11. "Going dark" (or going "private")
12. Acceptance (back to 1)

This morning, my best friend from high school announced the birth of his baby boy on Twitter. You can't tell me that Twitter is dying when there are moments like these to be shared. Quickly!

My advice to you: skip to Step 10. Try Jaiku for a while, if you absolutely must post from your phone. Get Twitteriffic or Twidget or the forthcoming Twitter Apollo app in order to deal with the deluge.

But remember one thing: folks younger than you don't mind the interruptions, the constant Tweets. They adapt. They turn off their phone's text alerts. They cull their friend list. They write some code to help filter their information.

Twitter does not jump sharks. People use Twitter to jump sharks. The Death of Twitter is a Myth, people. You ain't seen nothing yet.