Geek Engagement Announcement

I am in geek heaven RIGHT NOW! I just saw the coolest thing and I just HAVE to share it with everyone.

I would like to announce
Christina Warren
&
Grant Robertson
are now engaged!

Congratulations!
Here is a picture of Christina's ring. Nice job Grant!

How do I know this? It happened on Twitter just hours ago. I follow them both and I am so very happy for them!

How cool is it to say you got engaged at Macworld!?

@grobertson said this:














and
@film_girl said this:










You can congratulate the happy couple by tweeting them (click on links above) and digging them here.

Why am I so excited?
1. Because I met my husband online over 4 years ago and we have been very happily married ever since and have a beautiful child together.
2. To witness someone else beginning their new life together online is beautiful to me. (Not sure if they met online – they have been together for some time – but getting engaged online is just as sweet!)
3. I literally have shivers (I think they call it squee.)
4. To geeks like us, this is an extremely romantic proposal!

Congratulations to you Christina and Grant! I wish you all the happiness and joy and a wonderful future together, just like my husband and I! You're going to have a blast!

Christina, have fun planning a wedding! It will be one of the best times in your life. My husband and I eloped and then planned a wedding from 3000 miles away.
Let me know if you ever have any questions!

How To Virtually Attend Macworld 09

I'm attending Macworld 2009!
Sort of. from my couch or dining room table. where I'll be folding laundry. Wanna join me?
Select a few of these links and open them in new tabs across the top of your browser. Happy clicking!

Here is the start of an interactive media list I'm generating. I will try to update this list as I see more. My idea was to make a list of all my favorite hot spots in one place and share it with you. I might even be reinventing the wheel here, but it's been fun making this list for myself. If you have any links you care to share, please feel free to put them in comments and I'll add it to the list and re-link to this post out into the ether.

Live Blogging - Keynote on Tuesday, January 6th at 9:00 am PT
TUAW The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Macgasm

Engadget

Gizmodo

Live Chat
Ning Networks
MyAppleSpace

FriendFeed Rooms - View FriendFeed Rooms in real-time mode and it's like a live chat
Macworld Expo

The Apple Room

VentureBeat's Macworld 2009 Keynote Live Coverage

Microblogging
Twitter - search using keywords and hashtags and view in real time
#mwsf09

#Macworld

Follow on Twitter
@TUAW_MWSF09

@TUAW

Photos
Flickr
Macworld 2009

Macworld Expo 2009

Videos
Qik
Leo Laporte and TWiT Qik

Liana Lehua's Qik

Websites & Blogs
Macworld Expo

Mac.Alltop.com

TUAW

Macworld Bound

Schedules & Event Planning
Official Macworld Expo Site

http://macworld09.theappleblog.com/

Ilenes Machine

Upcoming
MacWorld Monday Tweetup

Macworld Expo

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Steve and Apple Will Be Fine

There is a lot of hoopla surrounding the health of Steve Jobs and whether or not Apple will survive without him should he retire or become too ill to continue as CEO of Apple.

Steve will be just fine. I'm not really that worried since he wrote to me and told me he would be eating his veggies more often. He's been so busy running Apple that he hasn't had as much time as he'd like to spend with his family, so cut the guy some slack. I can certainly relate to that. I'm sure Steve just wants to sit in front of his 32-foot cinema display and crank out some iMovies and slide shows of his kids from the past few years he may have missed out on planning for Macworld.

DM me on twitter Steve, I'll tell you where you can mail to me your latest iDVD projects.

Just for fun, I'm dedicating this song to Steve Jobs. I'm sure he's probably got it in his iPhone already.



I've been a Mac user since 1990 and I don't plan on using anything else no matter who gives the Keynote tomorrow or the next time. I'm sure there will be more Keynotes or some other kinds of love letters to come; they just might not be delivered from a stage in front of a big screen with some dude holding a clicker in his hand. Come on now, Uncle Steve is savvy with the times. He knows he can just email me a link or put up an iTunes feed. I'll click it. The carbon footprint is so much smaller on that anyhow.

Afterall, it is The start of a new era.

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Funk 49

What keeps YOU from blogging?

Sleep all day, party all night? Me too. Or, somethin like that. except without the partying part.

Actually, I micro-blog every day almost, but it's not aggregated here on the big blog. I wonder if I should do that so I wouldn't feel like I was neglecting this space so much. I have so many plans for this space but it was really hard to find the time when we had family visiting these past few weeks.

Now, where did I put that To Do list?

Which one?

I've tried implementing Twitter and Tumblr on here, but it makes the blog load so slooooow.

I'll think of something.

Maybe I'll try to put using the F12 blogger widget back into my workflow. Right now, my thoughts are just so random and fleeting and that's not usually my style for my blog. I like my blog posts to be more complete and better thought out. Pretty-looking even.

Maybe it's time for a change?

Sometimes my OCD gets in the way because of having to craft a title for each post? Hmmmm. Maybe I should resort to a Deep Thoughts from Jack Handy format with numbers. Then I'd have to keep track of the numbers. Meh.

Is there some random automatic blog post title generator that makes something nice looking that makes sense? You know, for us lazy people.

Ok, back to finishing the email back to my husband that I started an hour ago. Oh, wait. I already sent that out. What was I doing? Oh yeah. Making a list and clic

so many distractions, so little time.

publish.

Happy New Year

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and spent it surrounded by people they care about. Despite having the flu on Christmas day, I still managed to enjoy my holiday because I was surrounded by family and friends at all times. Being stuck in bed gave me a chance to take a break and reflect on all the people I'm grateful for in my life and how that number keeps growing.

There have been some setbacks along the way. We don't have a lot of money and I can't always get the things I want. That sucks, but I try to get over it and move on. Lucky for me, I don't need a lot of money to be with the people and get the things I need most in my life.

I don't want a pony, but an iPhone or a BlackBerry sure would be a lot of fun. I don't NEED either, but if I can somehow find a way to be resourceful, maybe my work will be rewarded and I can somehow find a way to justify the expense so it isn't just an additional expense. I believe I could grow my skills with a smart phone, I just have to figure out how to fit it in my lifestyle.

In 2009 my goal is to focus on the skills I have, to keep building on them and to keep being resourceful. I do not want to become obsolete.

How do you plan on keeping yourself from becoming obsolete this year?

I have tons of pictures and movies to comb through. Products and services to review and projects to produce. Content creation is in abundance and backlogged. I just need a clone who will manage my time more wisely than I've been able to.

2009 will be the Year of the Bootstrapping Mamma!

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