michael fulk’s blog

This month’s Pittsburgh Twitter meetup (or tweetup) occurred in combination with the Mattress Factory’s opening reception for PREDRIVE: After Technology, an exhibit in the annex gallery, just down the block from the main museum space. Similar to the last gallery opening I attended at the Mattress Factory, those in social media (bloggers, etc.) were invited [...]

Tonight was quite possibly the best and most well attended Refresh Pittsburgh events I’ve been to. We met at the AlphaLab offices on the south side of Pittsburgh. They have a nice open middle portion of the space that works out quite well for medium to large group meetings. In all, about 40 people were [...]

October 17-19, about two weekends ago, I attended Podcamp Pittsburgh 3. Having helped/listened throughout the planning process for the event I really wanted to be sure I showed up. In my last post I talked about heading to the meet and greet on Friday night. Since I had been able to go to the second [...]

Tonight begins Podcamp Pittsburgh 3! The meet-and-greet is at AlphaLab after work (6-8pm). I hope to see a bunch of new faces and many I already know. Plus, I’m excited to be meeting some people in real life with whom I’m currently only virtual friends.
Saturday and Sunday from 9-4 each day is the main event. [...]

Today Mozilla is due to release the final version of Firefox 3. I’ve been using the betas and RC versions for the last month or two at work and have been pleased with how it runs.
Someone decided it would be awesome to try to set the world record for most downloads in one day, but [...]

Did some more brainstorming tonight. After searching for my brainstorm document I was sure I had someplace. Google Desktop came through for me and had a cached, text copy of the file!

I upgraded my phone to the Palm Centro (red of course) after work today. And spent the last two hours talking to my siblings and finding my way around the phone. =D

Pretty much anyone who runs a computer network has to figure out some way to refer to each computer to make it easier to communicate between them. Various naming schemes I’ve seen include chess pieces (queen, knight, rook, etc.), planet names (Saturn, Jupiter, Endor, etc.) and many others.

Being an astronomy buff I decided to go [...]

Today at Mix, Microsoft announced the availability of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1. So, since I’m a web developer (and not because I use Internet Explorer…I stay as far away as possible) I downloaded the IE8 Virtual PC disk image. IE8 is supposed to default to its most standards compliant rendering mode. If you want [...]

It must have just been a busy month or something.

Juno - Watched this touching and quirky story of adoption and growing up with a friend from school.
Macworld - The big announcement day for Apple aficionados. I’d sorta hoped something bigger than the Macbook Air would be released, but then now I can comfortably upgrade my [...]