In writing my bio for Portland on Fire , I mentioned that I’d hidden my first name upside down in the “Read Me” file icon used on Macintosh during the late 1980’s: millions of people clicked on this icon to get help, and as far as I know, none of them noticed my name. The Wikipedia page for TeachText (the application I’d written which provides this icon) doesn’t mention this trivia (nor that I wrote it!).
After several years, TeachText was replaced by SimpleText, written by Tom Dowdy; Tom rightfully replaced my name with his; I’m just happy he kept the same style of icon. (I do rib Tom that TeachText was only 19K, where SimpleText was several times that in size.)
UPDATE: Sadly, I learned recently that Tom passed away. I’ll miss him: like many people I got to work with at Apple back then, he was smart and fun. I looked forward to seeing him every year at Apple’s developer conference, where we shared th...
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Finished with PIFF ‘08From: selfamusementpark.com
Post Date: 2008-02-24 13:01:36
The Portland International Film Festival is finally over, and though I’m exhausted from the arduous schedule I kept (I saw every film I could - 70 features and 4 collections of shorts), I had a great time — even better than last year, largely because of the wonderful collection of people I met during the festival.
One of the best perks of Silver Screen membership at the Northwest Film Center (which puts on PIFF) is the ability to attend the press screenings that be...
more Festival Fanatic is finally usefulFrom: selfamusementpark.com
Post Date: 2008-02-06 19:10:43
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d been working on a film festival scheduling site, FestivalFanatic.com . Though it went live then, it really hasn’t been useful without any festivals configured.
As of this morning, though, it now has the Portland International Film Festival schedule in it, and nearly everything I wanted in the first release is working — the notable exception being automatic scheduling, which I hope to finish in a day or two.
It’s been hard to fi...
more Ignite Portland 2 was great!From: selfamusementpark.com
Post Date: 2008-02-05 21:58:42
Gina and I went to Ignite Portland 2 tonight, a collection of 5-minute presentations where the slides advance automatically every 20 seconds.
That misses the essence, though: there were a huge variety of subjects, amazingly good (and passionate!) presenters, and a wonderful community feel (even with the Bagdad Theater packed with 700+ people).
You can watch the videos , and whet your appetite for next time (I’m ready already!). ...
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