/usr/local.com » Site News http://usrlocal.com half true, half interesting, mostly BS Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:27:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Coming soon! http://usrlocal.com/2010/05/coming-soon/ http://usrlocal.com/2010/05/coming-soon/#comments Tue, 04 May 2010 04:50:51 +0000 matt http://usrlocal.com/?p=901 You know you have been slacking on your blog posts when you have 15 posts in the drafts folder.

More posts coming soon…promise!

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We have some pretty big plans for the site and this is only the beginning. Revision one of the site allows you access to a lot of information that we have been collecting over the past several months. You can create an account, create a wish list to purchase apps later and rank and leave comments on apps that you have given a test run. Because let’s face it, they’re not all winners.

There is much more that we’re going to do with the site so we hope that you use it, tell us what you think, and spread the word to others!

-Matt

http://iapp100.com

http://twitter.com/iapp100

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So sign up now, you can start making your picks on Monday!

http://nhl.usrlocal.com/

And spread the word if you could, let’s get as many people on this thing as we can!

-Matt

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Work has been challenging but stressful. The company was bought, we battled floods, my team helped launch several major products, moved offices, and have continued to add on additional projects that have not been made public knowledge, but have taken up a bunch of time.

Yes, I’m very happy to be employed and busy. But there have been a number of challenges that I could do without in 2009. Let’s hope for a fairly dry spring so we can avoid the major flooding the drenched the midwest. Its a small step, but would save me a lot of sleep.

I have my goals for 2009 and most of them will eventually come out in this blog. But for the time being, set your goals high, spend time with the ones that you love and let’s hope for a prosperous 2009 for everyone.

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So here it is, in all its glory. Unfortunately, there will be a few RSS feeds that will be broken most likely. I’ll do what I can in order to send those on to the correct places in the next couple of days.

But in the mean time, please update your links.

-Matt

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I’ll have pictures posted to the flickr account here in the next few days and will begin my semi-regular posting again here shortly.

]]> http://usrlocal.com/2008/07/back-in-the-usa/feed/ 0 Starting off http://usrlocal.com/2008/03/new-blog/ http://usrlocal.com/2008/03/new-blog/#comments Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:22:26 +0000 matt http://matt.usrlocal.com/wordpress/2008/03/27/new-blog/ Well, its time for me to take the dive and actually do something useful with http://matt.usrlocal.com.

Sure, I’ll still keep updating usrlocal.com, but this will be a place for more personal stuff as well as various crazy rants that have nothing to do with technology.

I hope you enjoy it.

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