CEO Space, Updates and the Latest Happenings
Posted on December 20, 2007
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Been a while but so much has happened in the last few months.
CEO Space – Los Angeles
For the last few weeks I’ve been in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and San Diego. Part vacation and part business, we’ve been able to get a TON done regarding the business end of SugarStats. CEO Space was a huge success for us and we we’re able to meet literally hundreds of amazing business contacts and potential investors who share our vision. If you haven’t heard of CEO Space, I highly recommend you check them out: http://www.ceospace.net/
Viva Las Vegas!
We also took a nice road trip to Las Vegas which was really nice as I haven’t been there in years. While most of it was for fun and play, I was able to have an excellent studio interview and meeting with Charlie Cherry of the DiabetesPowerShow.com podcast. We had Manny Hernandez of TuDiabetes.com conference in and we recorded an live episode regarding diabetes goal setting and resolutions for the new year. I’ll post when that episode goes up.
As for accommodations, we stayed at Treasure Island and I have to say they have some of the most comfortable beds I’ve ever slept on. It was literally like sleeping on a cloud 
Thats a good thing considering the price. Over all the stay was excellent and it was great to see so much more new development happening.
SugarStats.com Updates
I mentioned a bit of it above, but theres a ton happening here. We’re ready to ramp things up and really get things going. We’re working on a ton of small changes and have some larger ones in the pipeline and already hashed out. With all the great contacts and people that we met at CEO Space who share our vision it will only greatly improve SugarStats as a whole and as a company. You can expect big things happening in the coming 3-6 months!
Tropical Paradise – Volcano, Hawaii
Now that CEO Space has passed, we’re all back together in Hawaii. Being literally on top of a volcano and in the middle of a tropical rain forest is amazing. I have to say it is also nice to be in the same building, let alone timezone, as my partners finally as I’ve been working out of Holland for the past few months. Only downside is we’re so far in the forest that we can only get dial-up!! 
I guess I’ll have to deal with it 
Tags: CEO Space, Las Vegas, SugarStats, SugarStats.com, Volcano Hawaii.
Posted on December 20, 2007
Filed Under Business, Design, SugarStats, Tech, Travel, Web
A List of Useful Online Diabetes Resources
Posted on November 29, 2007
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ReadWriteWeb, one of my favorite blogs, has a nice post on some cool Health 2.0 online diabetes management resources available to people. Unfortunately Richard the editor recently was diagnosed with diabetes which prompted the post.
“In this post, I’m somewhat selfishly going to review the diabetes sites and apps I found across the Web. But this post also serves, I hope, as an introduction to the more general topic of ‘Health 2.0’ – a.k.a. healthcare that uses the Internet.”
We’re grateful they included SugarStats in it, its always nice to be featured on one of your favorite blogs 
“SugarStats has potentially very useful aggregation, graphing and trending tools, plus you can share your stats with relatives or other diabetics. SugarStats also has a mobile version – even Twitter integration!! Overall, SugarStats is an excellent use of web 2.0 to enhance healthcare treatment.”
Very cool 
He goes on to list various resources from helpful learning material, to diabetes social networks (TuDiabetes.com) to Online Management with SugarStats.
Good stuff, check it out: A Health 2.0 Overview, Through the Eyes of a New Diabetic
Tags: Blood Sugar Control, Blood Sugar Log, Diabetes Blog, Diabetes Tech, Health 2.0, Online Diabetes Resources, SugarStats, TuDiabetes, Type 2 Diabetes.
Posted on November 29, 2007
Filed Under Diabetes, Health & Food, SugarStats, Tech
Jack Bauer in 1994 on AOL 3.0 - Hilarious
Posted on November 9, 2007
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As a major 24 fan myself as well as someone who used to be on AOL 3.0 on my 9600bps modem, something about this parody rang home.
Ah yes, the good ol’ days of paying for the Internet hour by hour. And wait, huh? Whats that? I get 5 free bonus hours for the month if I sign up with AOL today? Awesome!
I thought I was soooo cool with my 4MB of Ram and 25Mhz CPU which was an upgrade from my 8Mhz Mac Plus with 1MB Ram. ONE MEGABYTE!!!!
But I couldn’t complain because as Bill Gates said:
“640K ought to be enough for anybody!”
Its really funny to see how so much has changed, things were so much simpler then. Though I love technology to death, I really am glad to be able to say “I existed before everyone and their dog had a computer and was online 24/7”.
Back in the day when you actually had to find creative outlets and actually go outside to interact with the real world. The social disconnect back then was still at a minimum. Good times.
Some of my fav quotables from this:
- “He’s got total control of our geocities page”, “god help us”
- “I can see him, he’s hacking into the mainframe”, “But we just installed Windows 3.1, no way!”, “He’s in”, “Bogus!”
- “Gotta go Jack”, “Why?”, “We’re paying for the Internet, BY THE HOUR”.
- “Email him the bomb schematics.”, “It’s 150 Kilobytes!”, “Jesus! Print them out and we’ll send a bike messenger”
Watch it below or find it here: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1788161
Tags: 24 in 1994, 24 Parody, AOL 3.0, Comedy, Jack Bauer, Parody.
Posted on November 9, 2007
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Entertainment, Hardware, Quotes, Ranting, Tech, Web
Happy Accidents
Posted on November 5, 2007
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“We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.” -Bob Ross
Tags: Bob Ross, Happy Trees, Inspiration.
Posted on November 5, 2007
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Quotes
OS X Leopard Install Success!
Posted on November 3, 2007
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OS X Leopard Install Success!, originally uploaded by Marston A..
Ok, just like everyone else now I too have had the joy of using Leopard.
My initial impressions:
- Wish I could have done a clean install.
- Some things were buggy, which is most likely from old software I’ve been using.
- Install was fairly quick, did an archive and install. 30min or so.
- Spent a long time adding things to the TimeMachine “Exception” list. This is mainly due to it conflicting with my old “backup scheme.” Still have to figure this out.
- Have it installed on my 24” iMac w/ 2.16Gzh Core2Duo. Still have to test on 1.33Ghz G4 Powerbook.
What I love so far:
- The unified interface.
- Space – YES YES YES! Much better than VirtueDesktop. Everything I could want in a multiple desktop app/os.
- Much better memory and CPU management.
- Despite what everyone else says, I like the doc and transparent menubar.
- Faster and snappier than Tiger.
- Quick Look is VERY handy indeed.
- A million under the hood improvements.
Overall a great upgrade, I would say a must for everyone who has a mac now.
Tags: Apple, iMac, Leopard Review, OS X, OS X 10.5, OS X Leopard, Powerbook.
Posted on November 3, 2007
Filed Under Apple, Business, Daily Thoughts, Tech
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