New stretch goal – Watch Rick Train

By rickColosimo / November 9, 2010 / Comments Off on New stretch goal – Watch Rick Train

Hey, I’m really excited about my latest big hairy audacious goal: I’m entered in the Ironman Florida in Pensacola in November 2011. I will be raising money for REED Academy, Dylan’s school. I’ve set up a new blog at WatchRickTrain.com (inspired by Peter Shankman‘s similar site). I’m definitely in need of help in terms of…

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Trying to video blog with my Airbook

By rickColosimo / November 7, 2010 / Comments Off on Trying to video blog with my Airbook

Just posted this discussion to MacJournal’s forum, following up on some other discussions that tell me the world just hasn’t done what I want: Hi, I’m investigating MacJournal to allow me to videoblog simply directly from my mac/isight. The video instructions seems to be missing the middle part, i.e., everything after record & stop and…

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Pseudo-quote on getting it wrong

By rickColosimo / November 3, 2010 / Comments Off on Pseudo-quote on getting it wrong

So I was just watching a video of “some guy” (deliberately vague now because I’m going to sort of make fun of him in a minute) talking about how he uses Scrivener on his Mac for writing. But he pronounced it with a long /i/, like it rhymed with ‘hive:’ scrive-ner, as opposed to scriv-ner.…

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Email tips? Really?

By rickColosimo / April 27, 2010 / Comments Off on Email tips? Really?

One of my favorite authors, Seth Godin, recently posted another little list of email tips. Of course, they’re pretty much all useful and accurate. I mean, it’s hard to write a “tip” that is flat-out wrong. But I was thinking about it more in the sense of why, in 2010, do high-profile people with things…

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