Banana Beer

Banana beer made in Belgium is surprisingly delicious.

Earlier this week I was on a webinar.

I wasn’t expecting to get much out of it. But figured there might be one or two nuggets in there to help out with my iPhone business.

Turns out I had a eye opening experience and got several ideas for how to take my business to the next level.

I never slept that night.

This weekend I’m getting heavy into development of my server infrastructure to help scale up my ability to cross promote all my apps vastly more than I do right now.

It all comes down to dynamically generating the links to other apps and automating choice of them depending on historical performance of click throughs.  Once the entire system is finished I will be able to correlate performance on several key indicators and generate pages that should be optimal.

The math involved will be interesting to figure out.  The stats collected will provide me with a lot of information about the performance of my apps.  It’s going to be fun to figure out how to get a good dashboard to measure the status of my user engagement in realtime.

Super psyched to get some new apps out with these new features.

Home made fresh pasta.

This past weekend Heather and I picked up a bunch of weight plates to start lifting weights in the basement.

I’ve always wanted that lean runners body, but sooner or later I just had to face the facts that my legs are just too short and thick to really do well in that sport.  However I will continue to train with running since I’m signed up for a few races this year, but going forward I’m going to be putting a bigger focus on lifting really heavy stuff.

The over all plan is to find a weight that I can lift to about 10 reps and build a circuit around the weights and bars that I have available.

It’s been a while since I have done any weight lifting, so it’s interesting to see how quickly the heart rate picks up in comparison to a jog around the block.

I’m going to try to put in at least a 15 minute workout each day.  Not a lot, but should be enough to see results.

For the last month or so pressure has been growing to kick the iPhone app business up a notch.  More and more I’m finding myself running into a fundamental wall where I just don’t have the time or the skills necessary to do all the work required.  I need a team.

Specifically the graphic and art demands of creating apps is quickly getting more than I have the skill to implement and be happy with the final product.  And with ideas for 100+ apps  there is more drawing, photoshop, and animation work than I can feasibly handle.

So more and more I’m thinking seriously about trying to hire someone or outsource all this work.  I’m thinking about business acquisitions to acquire code assets and developers, and looking to make JV deals and find marketing partnerships.

It’s all new territory.

Things have been building up ever since Christmas and when we decided to signup for Netflix.  It’s so easy to sit down at the TV in the evening while eating supper to catch a show and then suddenly find myself several hours later having watched 5 episodes and be ready for bed.

Starting tomorrow I’m going to be trying something new.  5am wakeup and focused effort on completing projects and writing code before heading in to the office.  it was inspired by this post that I saw on hacker news.

Productivity has been waning and my to do list has been getting longer and longer.  So I need to start getting things back on track.  There are countless iPhone app ideas that I want to get to but just haven’t found the time to build yet and it’s starting to stress me out.

New home office layout.  Still needs some paint and thinking about building a wall mounted desk.

After a very enjoyable late onset for winter it finally came on hard hitting lows of nearly -40.

-40 is cold.  Very cold.

Waiting for the train is torture.  It’s as if the engineers of Calgary’s train system forgot that it gets cold here and failed to design things accordingly.  Doors seem to break, electrical connections short circuit and as a result trains that should be running every 5 minutes don’t come for 30.  Those 30 minute delays while standing outside in -35 is pretty cruel.

At least the snow stays light, crisp and dry though. A very warm coat, scarf, hat and mitts will do their job.