Boyink! - Spring Forward on the Web

Over the last couple of weeks a couple of new site/service/apps have started getting popular on Twitter - and it’s causing me a bit of frustration.  Since 140 characters is too short to explain myself, a blog post was in order.

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Huh…I announced this on Twitter a few days back but seem to have neglected announcing it here as well. 

So - I’m happy to announce that along with the ElevatorUp folks I’m getting the ball rolling on hosting Startup Weekend in Grand Rapids on February 26th - 28th. 

What is it?

48 hours of pure business-building madness.

There’ll be speakers, food, whiteboarding, coffee, ideation, creation, bootstrapping, networking, learning, teaching - and overall just a loud buzz of activity that will hopefully burst forth with new businesses, new relationships and some positive press for the West Michigan area.

Encouraged to attend are: techhies, marketers, lawyers, business folks, designers, doctors, dentists, linemen, bowling alley managers—anyone with a passion for business and a chance to have a great time.  If your business would like to sponsor the event please contact me.  I’ll be calling you anyway…you might as well beat me to the punch..;)

This issue has been resolved -thanks to Eric Reagan and Fred Boyle for the help. 

Essentially I replaced this style of redirect:

with this style:

I’m sure I tested the former and had them working - why they stopped I don’t know.  It’s one of those things I don’t have the time to figure out—they seem to be working again and I’m moving on.

So after my main desktop went out in a cloud of glory this week I’m still moving into the new Win7 model.  Initial impressions are favorable - but I’m running into snags with the email / calendar / invoicing process I’ve been using for years as some of the tools involved are seemingly now obsolete.

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It’s with a great sense of anticipation that I write this post.  The last 4 weeks have been filled with lengthy family discussions, meetings with bankers, accountants, and salespeople.  There have been more “What if…”, “What about…”, and “Who will….” type questions asked in our family than ever before.  We don’t yet have all the answers to all the questions, but have worked through enough of them that we are finally ready to put wheels on a long-time dream, and can finally tell you about it.

Sometime in the fall of 2010, we (my wife, 13 year old son, 12 year old daughter, and myself) will turn over our house keys to someone else, seat-belt ourselves into an RV, shift into “drive” and hit the road for roughly a year of travel, sightseeing, work, exploration, making new friends and visiting old ones.  And yes, I fully expect that time will also include arguments, short tempers, frustration, mechanical breakdowns, too-little personal space, and homesickness.

But mix all those together and we think it will fully define what we are after as a family - a true adventure.

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