Hoping to do CF9 beta demos and a coding contest at our next Vancouver #Coldfusion and Flex User Group meeting http://ping.fm/3Q788

For two days I haven't been able to escape my main contract to look at the small contracts I have on the go... stuff starting to pile up!

Watching my son graduate to green belt. He has his lazy moments but his sparring was great! Packed house, lots of kids moving up a belt.

C'mon #coldfusion people... come to Ceili's for a drink! Enjoying the time with CF coworkers...

Due to the snow last month, the small amount of snow in Greater Vancouver seems to have people in a bit of a panic.

Vancouver #coldfusion and flex user group casual meetup is tonight. Yay! http://ping.fm/kKUMe

Help me twitterverse! If I had 2 free tix from Vanc to any US location for wife and I in Spring... where? Hawaii and FL not incl...

Co-workers took my to birthday lunch - I chose Fajita Salad at White Spot. Thanks everyone!

Meetup for the Vancouver #ColdFusion and Flex User Group - http://ping.fm/cYqtl . Looking forward to meeting and planning next event.

Just placed Facebook and LinkedIn ads. Both easy and cheap, but will it be effective? FB easier to post, but LinkedIn targeting very cool.

It's "Middle-name Day" at the office today - working alongside Andrew, Celeste, James, Jonathon, Denise, Paul and others. Call me Chuck.

Looking for 3rd party chat tool for integration in #coldfusion app - know about 123flashchat, Meebo, Userplane, Cocomo - anyone have others?

Posted an Ajax and Google Maps task to SerebraConnect: http://ping.fm/Asny5 - wonder if I'll get any bids?

Long night at work, shrinking a database that bloated to 11GB after 8 years. Lesson = better maintenance procedures, keep less raw data

Having a delicious turkey wrap at Urban Fare w coworkers. Yay.

Someone called Baby Einstein videos crack for babies. Wow, Baby T doesn't know how to react! Crazy!

Anyone else see the Palm WebOS data coming out of the CES in Vegas and think Palm might just be able to pull this off? http://is.gd/eTMY

The guy who can get stuff

We all have talents.

There's this guy at the office who is like Red from the Shawshank Redemption. He's the guy who can get stuff. If you need to find anything, or you need to get a deal on something, contact him.

Seriously, he can get anything. Odd batteries? Done. Mario Kart or Wii accessories? No problem. Deals on paper towels? Probably.

His e-mail is... nah, I can't do that to him.

More on Crowdsourcing and the Virtual Workplace

I twittered recently about fairsoftware.net - a really neat concept in crowdsourcing where you can find people to team up with for software projects. Shortly after, a new twitter buddy dexin posted this link - How the Virtual Workforce is Changing Everything. It's a good article talking about how telecommuting and outsourcing has morphed into crowdsourcing, also referred to as the Virtual Workplace. From the article:

Companies should not view this new work style [crowdsourcing] as a cost-saving, short-term measure, as there are start-up costs involved.

A big distinguishing factor of this model is that it is a call for work. Many people will reply. Many of them may have a full time job doing other things.

"I don't know if it will ever become the replacement for an employer and an employee in the traditional sense -- but this work style is now a part of the ecosystem. It's sort of a third way," he [Jeff Howe, contributing editor for Wired Magazine] said. 

Neat. I like how it warns companies not to see it as a short term plan but also lets them know that this, to some extent, is here whether we like it or not.

What does it mean that the metal/hard rock song 'Indestructible' by Disturbed is our family RockBand song?

Well over 2 ft of built up snow in some places, now it's raining and melting. Welcome to the soup we call home.

Spent a lot of time at home lately. Been playing a highly rated board game w wife - Agricola - http://ping.fm/oVz7x . Great game!

Updated my HTC phone with Titan Reloaded from http://ping.fm/c4PvC . One word - fantastic! Thanks bitserve!!!

Run Google Chrome for weeks without restarting - FF would have hung w mem issue, IE would have crashed my explorer... Yay Chrome!

Friend sent me a link to fairsoftware.net - great idea! Build a project alongside other people and revenue share. Like crowdsourcing...

Happy New Year to everyone! Kept the (sick) kids up, played games, RockBand and decorated cookies. Good way to end the year.