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A fun first week at “home”

It has been a fun week. Kyle and I started working from our home offices and I’ve made dozens of tweaks to my personal site and my IFTTT recipes for cross-posting so that I can share from my site first. I’m pretty happy with where this is going. Let’s start with a few questions and answers, followed by…

Photo stats and observations

As I’ve been moving my photos from Picturelife into Photos for OS X over the passed two weeks I’ve run across some interesting observations so I thought I’d jot them down. ![](http://static.public.getbarley.com/colin.getbarley.com/barley-media-uploads/2016/3/Screenshot 2016-03-11 07.19.29-1457698947518.png) Here are some statistics in no particular order: We take a lot of photos in October, August, and June. This is because we generally…

Evernote’s days are numbered

Remember a few months ago when I wrote, several times, that many Evernote loyalists were leaving it behind for something else? I believe we’re about to see a watershed moment for Evernote. Back then I wrote that Simplenote should have an import tool and they’d be able to clean up. So far we haven’t seen that. However, Apple has…

Scoble goes virtual

Big news for Robert Scoble: Today I’m announcing that I’m leaving Rackspace to join Upload VR — a new media site covering virtual and augmented reality — as its entrepreneur in residence, where I’ll be developing new shows, events, and working with other entrepreneurs in the Upload Collective, a coworking space for virtual reality-focused startups.

Ignore the no

Mike Vial: Better to be the musician who gets a no today, than the one who never asks and is always wondering; and even better to be the musician to takes a no and creatively makes it a yes on their own terms. This fits just about anyone. Never take no for an answer. I love his suggestion…