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(Still) Hiring a Director of Technology Development

Why Work at Warner Bros Records?
WBR is the top label in the US with some of the most respected acts in the business, including R.E.M, Neil Young, Muse, White Stripes and Green Day. We are currently celebrating our 50th anniversary. Besides that, we are the only label with a Technology Department entirely dedicated to doing [...]

Posted 29 August 2008 § ‡ Comments (2) °

New Look(?)

I wanted Widget support and support for the iPhone application, so I had to upgrade Wordpress, which broke the old BRG theme. This is a temporary theme, possibly. I have some ideas for what I want to do with it, but you know, ideas and free time seldom mesh.
The other thought I had is going [...]

Posted 06 August 2008 § ‡ Comments (3) °

The Gnomedex Philosophy » Gnomedex 8.0

“Gnomdex [sic] was refreshing because it was a flat conference. In fact, let’s just call it a discussion. It was the right size, was open, frank and honest in its intention and never avoided confrontation for the sake of control. I got more out of it than the other two conferences combined. [O'Reilly's Etech and [...]

Posted 22 July 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Uses for an iPod Touch Around the House

Here are two:
Controlling our Home Automation Setup. Our setup uses Indigo from Perceptive Automation tied to an Insteon system through the house. The control panel for iPhone is through a hack from their forums. The master computer for this is embedded in the wall in our living room with a 15″ wall mounted touch-screen acting [...]

Posted 15 July 2008 § ‡ Comments (3) °

The Week Ahead

When the week starts, its hard not to sit and think about it ending. Human nature I guess. Right now we’re two people down, so our workloads as a department are much higher. However I also think that things are coming together nicer in terms of the over-all aim of what we are aspiring to [...]

Posted 14 July 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

iPhone App Store is Revolutionary

I’ve been testing the iPhone 2.0 firmware for a while (we are actually working on some apps for it, but they got back-burnered because of site launches).
Besides the Exchange Sync, which really makes the iPhone my hub of activity, the iPhone App Store, which launched today represents a significant leap forward in mobile computing, and [...]

Posted 10 July 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Wall-E

I saw Wall-E today at the Disney Studios at a special screening. Some observations:

This was a “perfect” movie. And that is not a term I use lightly. I deem perfect movies one’s whom I can’t find a single fault with. One who’s every frame is necessary, perfect and flawless. From soundtrack, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, [...]

Posted 28 June 2008 § ‡ Comments (4) °