http://mglenn.com Personal website of Michael Glenn Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 4:00PM - At the office. Still experiencing mild chest pains from the night before. These don't seem heart related but I decided to called Telehealth Ontario who had a nurse call me back five minutes later. Ran through a series of standard questions relating to chest pain and advised me ... http://mglenn.com/2009/05/28/chest-pain-at-toronto-general/ At the Apple 2008 Wordwide Developers Conference Phil Schiller gave an impressive demo of Electronic Arts new game, Need for Speed Underground for the iPhone. The game was promised by November 2008 but never surfaced. I waited and waited postulating that perhaps the app was too much for the iPhone ... http://mglenn.com/2009/05/25/iphone-app-need-for-speed-underground/ For years I've watched with envy as others purchased their high definition flat screen televisions. Then a few weeks before Christmas my wife remarked that HD televisions had come down in price and would we be interested in purchasing one? Yes we would. We're big movie watchers and have grown ... http://mglenn.com/2009/01/05/my-road-to-hd/ The terrible news out of Mumbai was a global news event that really showed me how Twitter is so well integrated into the social networking news stream. Last Monday night, the Toronto tech community amplified the power of Twitter. I recently started using TweetDeck to follow my Twitter stream. Besides separating ... http://mglenn.com/2008/12/22/behold-the-power-of-the-twitter/ My wife and I renewed our lapsed AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) memberships this month and took our first trip to see the new galleries. I left the camera at home because I was fairly certain they had and still have a no photography policy. Upon checking in, I was ... http://mglenn.com/2008/12/13/please-explain-ago-policies/ Colleen Diamond is contemplating the iPhone switch. She asked me today what my favourite applications were. Here are my current top 10. 10.TimmyMe (Free) If you are Canadian, Tim Horton's is an institution. TimmyMe is a free locator that lists the five closet Tim Horton's to your current location. It will launch ... http://mglenn.com/2008/12/05/my-top-10-iphone-apps/ YouTube recently switched to a widescreen format and while browsing around to test out the quality I was still shocked at the poor performance of Flash on a Mac, specifically with video. The playback is jerky and constantly pauses in both Firefox and Safari. Restarting the browser helps a bit ... http://mglenn.com/2008/11/26/flash-10-still-a-poor-performer-on-macs-and-linux/ The iPhone 2.2 update brought a handful of new features including a few updates to the iPod application. I gladly realized after a day of listening to Podcasts that episodes appear in the order they were downloaded. This means that you can start at the oldest and not have to skip ... http://mglenn.com/2008/11/24/22-podcasts-right-order-but-download-flaw/ For the past few weeks I've noticed a higher percentage of calls to my iPhone on Rogers that go straight to voicemail without ringing the phone. These occur in metro Toronto (at least) with full 3G signal strength. I am sometimes actively using the phone either with data or an application ... http://mglenn.com/2008/11/23/rogers-un-connected-calls/ Recently our small team's development schedule was seriously slipping. Although the Mythical Man Month tells us adding resources doesn't make a project go faster I had enough product and domain knowledge to speed things up and start coding. It's been been almost a year since I've been coding as part of ... http://mglenn.com/2008/11/11/the-developer-hat/