A good guy to know...

Finally made some time to connect with a friend/colleague whom I get to see regularly (at BlueStripe Software BoD meetings) but rarely get to talk at length with. Justyn Kasierski is not only a good guy, he's got an interesting start-up in-flight and is overall one of the best connected guys in the start-up game in RTP.

Despite being in the start-up game locally for the past 12 years (minus 3 at Cisco, but I digress...), I don't have relationships with many of the key local players. Justyn's helping me fix that.

Building beautiful software...

So the process of creating great software products has always intrigued me. There's no singular "right" answer, as it varies upon your company, your team's skills, your culture, etc.

I just recently discovered Tyner Blain and have to say I'm impressed. This guy's a thinker...

Fixing a flat

I have a small beach cart I use for hauling stuff to/from the beach, usually beach chairs and such, but sometimes fishing gear. The cart was originally sold as a fishing cart and is built to carry more weight than the typical cart, thus the pneumatic tires.

Unfortunately, a tire went flat and got rolled around a bit, causing the tire to become unseated. After much time of messing with it, I turned to the web for help in getting the tire seated.

Ultimately, I stumbled upon this link at eHow: http://www.ehow.com/how_6648168_homemade-tire-bead-seating-tool.html, which worked swimmingly (and a little to my surprise).

However, I was saddened that I didn't have any lighter/starter fluid because this one appealed to me (greatly): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-9AxvoXFZ0&feature=related