So, my travel dates to New York are set now - I'll be flying into Laguardia airport on Sunday the 18th, staying for about a week, and flying out on Saturday the 25th. I'm still being a bit vague about the people I'm meeting, but there's nothing I can do about that at the moment. I have a fairly busy schedule while I'm in town, though, which is nice. Hopefully by the time I get back from New York I'll be able to release a few more details. In the mean time, I'm going to document the trip via images and video on
CanGoogleHearMe.com, and some posts here on the site.
The Veeker feed (cell phone blogging on CGHM) has been having issues lately, but I'll see if I can get that running before boarding the plane this weekend. Maybe you'll pick up some of the travel details through the pictures.
I'll also bring along the video camera.
We've hired our first "employee/intern", named Dustin, currently working on BookLamp on trial for a week or so to see how he fits in. I use quotes because... well, he's not here in response to our internship opening. In fact, Dustin saw a video interview I'd done about the release of BookLamp back a few weeks ago, posted in our forums, and sent us an e-mail when he saw the posting about looking for local help. He's a local self-taught programmer with skills that seem to match what we need, and he'll be working for us throughout the summer if all goes well. Mostly, he's tackled the conversion of the interface away from Flash, which has been one of our big sticking points, and something on the "to-do" list. If you check out the Veeker feed on CanGoogleHearMe.com, you'll see Dustin sitting on the floor of the office with his Apple MacBook, hard at work on his second day.
You also notice that we haven't moved offices yet. Sadly, construction didn't finish last week, and the WaterCooler hasn't opened the doors yet. We're waiting on baited breath for word that we can move in, at which point we'll bust out the cameras and document the transfer.
Finally, and this is entirely a side-note, but I bought myself an electric bike a few days ago. I know, I know... why own a bike if it's electric, right - is it even still a bike? It actually only assists your peddling, multiplying the force you put into the peddle by 2 or 3 times. So you still have to peddle to go forward, but just a little less so, hopefully enough to prevent me from arriving at the office sweaty after a 5 mile ride. It makes you feel like Steve Austin from the 6 Million Dollar Man while you're riding it.
My reasoning is this - the Boise city green belt runs from about a block from my apartment to about two blocks from the back of our office downtown. If I can get a little extra exercise in the process, all the better; plus, I've always loved gadgets, and an electric bike is just cool.
Hopefully we'll be making the move downtown later this week, or maybe next week - whenever we get the thumbs up from the guys constructing the building.
Aaron
