Recently, fbCal was featured on LifeHacker. It provided for a nice bump in adoption, as seen above. Here’s to productivity apps!

Rachel and I visited San Francisco earlier this month. We had a great time and got a real feel for the city. You can see all of the photos in the gallery. Below are some select ones. Let’s start with two obligatory photos that every San Francisco trip must have.

Obligatory Golden Gate Bridge Photo:

Obligatory Street Car Photo:

Berkeley was really nice:

Vegan Ice Cream Shop!:

Golden Gate Park had great scenery:

Also, many of the restaurants seemed to offer burgers:

I launched a new website called Focus Habits!

Focus Habits is is a simple way to help you regain focus on your goals by reducing your internet distractions and motivating you toward better habits.

Let me know what you think!

I recently made my current dream workstation a reality. It’s a new MacBook Pro (2.5 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, dual boot between OS X and XP, 512MB NVidia display), with a Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP 24″ Monitor and MyBook 1TB NAS hard drive.

In setting everything up, my new workstation is trying to index a tremendous amount of information. Everything that was copied from my old laptop, everything on the external harddrive, and everything on Rachel’s computer. Spotlight can’t seem to handle it at the moment.

Apparently, 2.5 million years ago, during the time of Australopithecus Africanus, my computer was already indexed.

I made a few websites recently for UCF-related groups. Enjoy!

• Progressive Council http://www.progressivecouncil.org/
• Eco-Advocates of Central Florida http://www.ecoucf.org/
• Adam Giery (SGA Presidential Candidate) http://www.adamgiery.com/

I am moving all of my professional-related material to my new website, CSBob.com. This includes everything related to my website portfolio and my resume. Photos, weblog, and other smaller pages will stay here, on my personal website VeganBob.com. Hopefully, separating the two will give search engines a more clear idea of the content of each, and it will allow people I meet to be more easily directed to the appropriate content.

Enjoy!

I support Dennis Kucinich at this point in the election race.  I voted for him in the last primaries, and I intend to in this election as well. He is pragmatic, smart, reasonable, and logical.  He is forward and open in both speaking and thinking.  He has plans for domestic and foreign policy that will repair damage done during the current administration.  While I am still open to hearing out other candidates, it would take quite a change for any one of them to attain the same level of inspirational leadership qualities that I find with Kucinich.

• Dennis4President.com
• YouTube Group
• Donate for Democracy

I’m really glad he’s been getting more attention in the media lately. Some of the attention has been a sort of meta-acknowledgement, where broadcasters discuss unique or interesting attributes of Dennis, rather than actually discussing his politics. I won’t go through listing them in detail, but they have in the past included: Elizabeth, height, veganism, and various pocket-sized items. I am okay with this.

This situation strongly equates in my mind to a question that I often receive: “what do you think about people that are vegetarian for [any of many non-ethical reasons to be veg goes here]?” While I wish there were more activist vegetarians out there, a vegetarian that doesn’t eat meat for nutritional reasons (for example) is eating no animals in the same capacity as an ethics-based vegetarian. With Kucinich, I believe any public discussion of him (even about his interesting background) will aid his campaign. Going one step further, a vote for Kucinich because he’s the only candidate that voted 100% against this war, is the same as a vote for Kucinich because he’s the candidate that has an appropriate plan for healthcare, human rights, and foreign policy.

“Why isn’t Kucinich a Frontrunner?” - Tucker Carlson

Note: Watch the first 3.5 minutes of this. It’s the first time I’ve ever agreed with Tucker Carlson, to my knowledge.

• Cover flow is infinitely more useful in the new Finder than it ever was in iTunes
• Glossiness and translucency makes everything look better
• The new Safari 3.0 combines what I loved about Safari 2.0 with the smaller features in Firefox that I liked
• Spaces is what virtual desktop managers should be
• I haven’t gotten into it yet, but I’m sure Time Machine will make my backups more easy. I will get more enthusiastic when I get AirDisk working with Time Machine.

To see what I’m talk about, watch the guided tour on Apple’s website.

The new brushed metal Apple Wireless Keyboard shipped!
It’s been working great so far. Very responsive, very sleak!

fbCal: Facebook’s missing calendar feature. It makes two calendar subscriptions! That way it’ll be easy for you to remember your Facebook friends’ birthdays and all events that you’ve been invited to or RSVPed for! These two calendars can be subscribed to (which will have them automatically update) or you may simply download a current copy of it.

The calendar subscriptions idea has been the most requested feature of fbCal. I’m happy to introduce it to the users!

Help me promote it, by digging it.