Not the greatest photos because all I had was the cell phone. This was my first time at McCrady’s. Was not disappointed, and their reputation as one of Charleston’s best restaurants is well deserved.
Plate of charcuterie
Trio of lamb
Duck breast
Soft chocolate
Apple crisp with bourbon pecan ice cream
Cliq: Month 11
Just over 11 months with my phone. After long months of waiting, it finally got updated to Android 2.1 a couple of weeks ago. The whining on the forums about getting 2.1 has ceased, only to be replaced with whining about 2.1 and getting 2.2.
Android 2.1 has a lot of nice features, but when it comes to performance and battery life on the Cliq, it’s a steaming pile. I am having fewer problems with phone calls though. There’s that at least.
I’m about to put it through another factory reset with limited apps installed to see if things get any better. I’m halfway tempted to go back to Android 1.5 which was decidedly more zippy than 2.1 is now.
BarcampCHS 2 success!
It looks like Barcamp Charleston was another resounding success. Lots of hard work was put in by the organizers and there were lots of happy people everywhere I went today. Learned lots of things, met lots of people and put more faces to Twitter names.
Thanks to Baked for providing all the delicious breakfast noms!
(This is not Baked breakfast noms. This is BarcampCHS robot)
There were something like 60 proposed sessions, all of which I think got scheduled.
All the sessions I went to were pretty good. Probably the most interesting one was the Google Q&A session where a couple folks from Google’s Berkley County data center answered a bunch of Google related questions.
The ham radio session I went to was really interesting too. Learned a lot about what it takes to get into ham radio.
BarcampCHS was yet another awesome learning experience. Charleston could use more events like this to give people more chances to get their geek on and meet other people to do that with.
Here comes BarcampCHS 2
There’s just two days left until Barcamp Charleston 2.
On the surface you’d think it was just a thing for techie geeks. In part, you’d be right. Because of its origin, many Barcamps tend to be inherently geared towards the tech community. However the Barcamp concept has spread to just about every area and item you can think of. Take last week’s Cupcake Camp Charleston for example.
Barcamp Charleston organizers have worked extremely hard over the past 6 weeks to pull together the second (hopefully annual) event. Like last year, it won’t be exclusively techie and will hopefully have a something that will appeal to everybody regardless of what field they choose to express their geekery in. Like all Barcamps though, that will be determined entirely by the people that go. With proposed sessions like Homebrew 101, Podcasting 101, Geocaching in the Lowcountry, Salsa dancing for noobs and Sci-fi costuming there should be something that everybody can get interested in.
Sound interesting? See you on Saturday then, but go get your ticket first!
Remembrance Day
CBC Archives – Lest we forget: Remembrance Day
We wear poppies on our coats every November. We observe a moment of silence at 11 a.m. each November 11. But why do we do it? What is Remembrance Day all about? The way we mark the day has certainly evolved over the years, but it still holds special meaning to countless Canadians. CBC Digital Archives looks at the significance and the symbols of Remembrance Day.
