http://www.roninmarketeer.com Front Line Marketing with a Touch of Sarcasm Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:19:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lots of things going on now chewing up time. I was back in the Berkshires last weekend, check out some Flickr pics here. I've also gotten sucked into Bioshock on the Xbox 360 which I waited until I could get it used for a reasonable price. The bad news is that ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/06/23/update/ Some fanboy stuff for Friday - cutting edge video games, this does have some real world application too. About 6 months ago I was wondering if anybody was ever going to come up with an answer to the Wii. Yes, it's revolutionary, but it's just a wireless controller, you'd think that ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/06/04/project-natal/ I really liked the look of this session, and the content is great if you are into shooting video. Advanced Sound for DSLR's from Steve Weiss, Zacuto USA on Vimeo. http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/06/04/dslr-and-audio-in-film-making/ Things have been crazy the past two weeks, the biggest spanner in the works being the flu that knocked me down completely back on Tuesday and I was still sleeping it off on Wednesday. Losing two days from the work week creates a total loss for blogging and podcasting and ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/06/02/finally-catching-up/ Here's my first shot with the HD Video Camera, a Canon Vixia HD30. It was a classic software project - I got the camera, but I had to update to iMovie '09 so the file format would be recognized, and I had to update to Leopard to be able to ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/22/hd-video/ My wife’s friend is a teacher and she has a sign that says "You are special and unique, just like everyone else". So for the record, I am unique as the only John J. M. Wall III and in fact, the M. has never really been made public and even ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/19/who-is-john-wall/ I saw Eddie Izzard on The Graham Norton show and I couldn't stop laughing about this for the next hour.  Aside from a few f-bombs it's safe for work. http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/16/death-star-canteen/ SugarCRM is an open source CRM system, kind of a David to Salesforce.com's Goliath. It's been doing very well, but there was a surprise last week as the Co-Founder and CEO stepped down. Check out this post: Never before has news been gathered and spread so fast. Is it any wonder ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/13/inside-baseball-for-everything/ For my dear diehard fans that originally subscribed to the feed on the old domain, please subscribe to the new feed: http://www.roninmarketeer.com/feed/ For some reason, during the transfer to the new domain, the old feed became a partial feed, the new one is a full feed. If you are not familiar with ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/05/get-the-full-feed-no-charge/ I've used Samsonite luggage all of my life. My parents gave me an old school suitcase when I was a kid (back when one of their competitors had an ad with a gorilla beating the crap out of a suitcase). When I graduated from college I had a Samsonite Briefcase (yes, ... http://www.roninmarketeer.com/2009/05/05/superior-design/