Yesh.com :: Brian Russell » About This Site http://www.yesh.com/blog Artist, Technologist, Entrepreneur, Dad Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 WCHL Village Pride Award http://www.yesh.com/blog/2011/02/23/wchl-village-pride-award/ http://www.yesh.com/blog/2011/02/23/wchl-village-pride-award/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:51:47 +0000 BrianR http://www.yesh.com/blog/?p=890 I was just honored by our local AM radio station WCHL 1360 with the Village Pride Award. A pretty cool thing to receive. Here is the mp3 of their mini peice about me. Thanks to WCHL, Ruby, and Ron Stutts
WCHL Village Pride Award – Brian Russell

A little context: WCHL [...]]]> I was just honored by our local AM radio station WCHL 1360 with the Village Pride Award. A pretty cool thing to receive. Here is the mp3 of their mini peice about me. Thanks to WCHL, Ruby, and Ron Stutts
WCHL Village Pride Award – Brian Russell

A little context: WCHL is our hyper local news and Tar Heel sports station. If you live in Chapel Hill and Carrboro for any length of time you’ll start listening. Especially to Woody Durham, “Voice of the Tar Heels“, during Tar Heel basketball season.

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Phenomenal fans: brothers Terry, left, and Edwin Murray with some of their cache of comics, Photo: Jim Wallace

Holy Pop Culture!, Duke Magazine, Volume 89, No.6, September-October 2003

]]> http://www.yesh.com/blog/2011/02/18/article-about-murray-brothers/feed/ 0 Reminder by Phone http://www.yesh.com/blog/2011/02/13/reminder-by-phone/ http://www.yesh.com/blog/2011/02/13/reminder-by-phone/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:27:16 +0000 BrianR http://www.yesh.com/blog/?p=813 In what seems like a never ending quest to remind myself of important things to do I’ve set up yet another scheme. This one uses telephony service If By Phone. I subscribe to their Complete service for Carrboro Coworking. It gives the business a great call tree and voice mail with a [...]]]> In what seems like a never ending quest to remind myself of important things to do I’ve set up yet another scheme. This one uses telephony service If By Phone. I subscribe to their Complete service for Carrboro Coworking. It gives the business a great call tree and voice mail with a call routing service. I use this to get calls sent from my business number to my cell phone. Its more advanced than Google Voice in many ways and isn’t free. This reminder call is another advantage of paying for it.

I set up a recurring reminder to call me every day at 10:30AM to play a recording. I recorded, with my phone, a list of important long range to-dos. This reminder isn’t for daily to-dos but big picture stuff that will take months to get done. The If By Phone service even called me and recorded my message to be used with this service. I need this type of to-do because I have so many ideas that they often subvert each other. One day I’m down on idea A and another day I’m down on idea B. This has lead to a confusing and depressing feeling of mental limbo. I get stuff done but feel like I’m not going anywhere. So my answer is to learn focus by repetition.

The reminder can call any phone number you want. It’ll even ask you for confirmation you understood the message. You can type in your confirmation question. Mine is, “Do you dig it?”. I just say ‘Yes’ into the phone and the smart service understands then hangs up.

I’m trying this out because I don’t really like the sound of ringing phones. Its something I have a hard time ignoring. So I figured I would bug myself with it to force attention to important things. After a test call today I gave a name to the number in my cell phone address book. That way when I see the call coming in I’ll be ready to refocus my energies.

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Then in 2006 I started using Twitter. The real time satisfaction of sending out a few bits of text and potentially receiving IMMEDIATE response is/was intoxicating.

Fast forward to 2010 and certain events have reminded [...]]]> A few years back, prob around 2005, I got an education about personal data ownership and privacy. I taught myself.

Then in 2006 I started using Twitter. The real time satisfaction of sending out a few bits of text and potentially receiving IMMEDIATE response is/was intoxicating.

Fast forward to 2010 and certain events have reminded me what I learned.

Did I forget how important data ownership is? Was I, am I, willing to trade my data property in exchange for services? (ex. Twitter, Facebook,) Am I over the immediate gratification of a GIANT community?

Not sure. But I hope you’d like to visit my virtual living room to chat. Its ok if its quite for awhile. :)

p.s. I’m not sending Tweets from my wordpress blog to drive traffic here to earn $. Just to revive my home.

]]> http://www.yesh.com/blog/2010/05/07/data-ownership/feed/ 0 Yep. Its time to start blogging more. http://www.yesh.com/blog/2010/05/07/yep-its-time-to-start-blogging-more/ http://www.yesh.com/blog/2010/05/07/yep-its-time-to-start-blogging-more/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 21:12:56 +0000 BrianR http://www.yesh.com/blog/2010/05/07/yep-its-time-to-start-blogging-more/ All I can say is Justinsomnia… you told me so. Sorta.

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]]> http://www.yesh.com/blog/2010/05/07/wp-to-twitter/feed/ 2 Fixed http://www.yesh.com/blog/2009/03/31/fixed/ http://www.yesh.com/blog/2009/03/31/fixed/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:01:50 +0000 BrianR http://www.yesh.com/blog/?p=565 Last night and today I fixed the blog. Some funky stuff was going on. So if it looks a bit different, and you give a damn, you’ll know why.

I really need to create my own theme…

]]> Last night and today I fixed the blog. Some funky stuff was going on. So if it looks a bit different, and you give a damn, you’ll know why.

I really need to create my own theme…

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]]> I’ve been trying out some new video chat/live video technology. Yahoo! has a new service called Y! Live. My channel is over at http://live.yahoo.com/yesh. I also have it embeded in my Live blog page. Contact me if you’d like to do a live video chat. Yesh!

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]]> http://www.yesh.com/blog/2008/02/17/short/feed/ 0 Broken Plugin http://www.yesh.com/blog/2008/01/22/broken-plugin/ http://www.yesh.com/blog/2008/01/22/broken-plugin/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:13:54 +0000 BrianR http://www.yesh.com/b2/2008/01/22/broken-plugin/ Apologies to all of you who subscribe to email updates about my new blog content. (You won’t get this via email.) Seems I might have just spammed you. I discovered that every time I make a change to a post it sends out a new email. I just got 12 emails from myself. Doh! I’ve [...]]]> Apologies to all of you who subscribe to email updates about my new blog content. (You won’t get this via email.) Seems I might have just spammed you. I discovered that every time I make a change to a post it sends out a new email. I just got 12 emails from myself. Doh! I’ve turned off the plug-in until I can fix this. Thanks for reading!

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