Hurley's World

Just got my ass handed to me by my trainer. Feeling accomplished and good though.

@ky I thought it was a $10 fee for the delivery, no?

I didn’t even know my BBerry had a media card slot. I’ve had it for over a year.

New Flickr Photo: Gorilla Slippers from a client http://tinyurl.com/8r54dn

@PunkyStyle I do….have been a bberry guy for a few years. Still fighting with the new OS install….grrr

Blackberry OS upgrade not going well so far. Why does this sort of thing always end up being way more complicated than it needs to be?

Twitter seems to have “unfollowed” a bunch of people for me randomly. Just added everyone back, and some more as well.

Average parking spot price in Boston in ‘08 was $80k (http://tinyurl.com/778zlj). Twenty $100k+ parking spots were sold in Boston in ‘08.

Marbury to the Celtics? http://tinyurl.com/9qvl9g

Been on hold with RCN for 94 minutes and giving up. Makes me want to switch back to Comcast, but I’ve been there…and it’s just as bad.

Just drove my car for the first time since Christmas. Going extended amounts of time not driving is a nice perk of city living.

Not sure why Flickr pics are double posting. Lots of settings within settings and feeds within feeds.

New Flickr Photo: Dancing at TCs Lounge http://tinyurl.com/a2pxpz

New Flickr Photo: Dancing at TCs Lounge http://tinyurl.com/a939cl

New Flickr Photo: View From Westin 36th Floor http://tinyurl.com/8lddva

Filet mignon with blue cheese, shrimp, asparagus, booze, friends, dive bar next to the apartment. Sounds like a good New Years Eve for once.

No more .org, it’s being retired. Check me out at http://andrewteman.com now.

Not to get all Jason Calicanisy here, but I’ve been thinking for a while now about my blog and blogging in general (NERD ALERT!). More specifically what the latter means these days, and as such, and what to do with the former.

It’s been ages since I posted anything even vaguely unique or substantive - something that wasn’t a just quick snippet, photo, video, or link. Which is why I have found myself moving more towards posting shorter, more frequent items to Twitter and Flickr, and finding a lot more satisfaction in doing so (though this wasn’t always the case).

Paul Boutin said it well in a recent Wired article:

Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a tsunami of paid bilge. Cut-rate journalists and underground marketing campaigns now drown out the authentic voices of amateur wordsmiths. It’s almost impossible to get noticed, except by hecklers. And why bother? The time it takes to craft sharp, witty blog prose is better spent expressing yourself on Flickr, Facebook, or Twitter.

I think this is pretty dead on, particularly the last line, and so from now on, this site will mainly lay in state, and my new short-form world will exist on AndrewTeman.COM. Be sure and update your RSS feeds here if you want to follow along. It’s riveting I know.

The new site, as I said, will mainly be Twitter updates, Flickr photos, and some ancillary info pulled from my Delicious, Yelp, and Last.FM feeds, nice and simple. Granted there will still be things that I want to get out there that just won’t fit neatly into JPG format, or in 140 character strings, and for that, the blog will remain here in it’s current form, but with grossly sparse updates at very best.

It’s been a good run. Since May of 2004, there have been 815 posts, over 1,200 comments, and well over one million visitors.

See you over at the new place.

Just had a great dinner (included bacon and pineapple caramel) at L’Espalier. Even got a tour of the kitchen and met the chefs.

Heading to L’Espalier for bubbly wine night