Category Archives: Personal

Where the hell have I been?

Hi all; Aliso here. As some of you have surely noticed, I’ve been somewhat absent from my own blog lately. I’ve also been incommunicado to some extent—my sincere apologies to anyone who has sent me a message and been waiting for a response. Let me explain. In the past month, a lot has been going on. I [...]

Aliso the… Blonde

Need I say more?

You know you’re a gamer when…

I’m blogging from 30,000 feet again, on my way home from NYC. I feel like I got to see a lot more of the city compared to the last time I was here. Even though I was very unfamiliar with the subway, or had never been to Little Italy before, I recognized buildings and details everywhere I went—recognized them from video games.

On my way to NYC

I’m on a plane to New York right now, along with my boss, Damian. (It’s his birthday today, by the way. Happy Birthday, Damian!) We’re headed out there on a project for Brave New Media in which I’ll be making a custom Flash app for USB drives. I’d say more, but I’m not sure what [...]

Where oh where, has Aliso gone?

December was a busy month for us, professionally and personally. As a result, she has been unable to blog, or give users of SimpleMap the support she feels they deserve. To top that all off, she is currently in bed with a nasty head cold (who says I never get her anything fun?). At any rate, she will be back on the grid 1/4/10, and doing her best to get caught up.

Hard drive go BOOM.

Two days ago, I had the pleasure of having my computer crash while I was trying to print something. No problem, I thought, this happens sometimes—after all, I do mess around in the command line enough to actually screw something up now and then. I hold down the power button on my iMac until it shuts down, then press it again and hear the familiar Apple “ding.”

I was then greeted by a folder icon with a question mark on it.

Quick update

I’m sorry I haven’t been able to respond to comments or emails about SimpleMap (or anything else, for that matter) for the past several days—I was on vacation. I’m going through all my emails and comments tonight!

A rambling train of thought on SimpleMap categories & tags

This is an excerpt from an email I was writing to a SimpleMap user. I was going to ask their opinion on whether to add a Tags field to locations, but I ended up not needing any convincing. Expect a Tags field in 1.2! In the meantime, here’s some insight into how my brain works [...]

SimpleMap 1.1.2

I just posted version 1.1.2 to the WordPress plugin repository, so you should see it become available in the next 10-15 minutes. This fixes the Javascript error that was breaking the plugin in Internet Explorer and Firefox. It was a bummer of a day. I’m really sorry that I released 1.1 with these huge bugs [...]

New Apartment and Prepping for iPhone Bootcamp

At the beginning of the month, Jim and I moved into a new apartment—the three-bedroom next door to our old apartment! It was the easiest move of my life. The new apartment is fantastic, with twice the closet space and a third room to enjoy. Next year we’re hoping to make that third room a [...]