Archive for the 'Life' Category

We were going to launch our new ad campaign on Monday morning but the ad company jumped the gun and it already went up today. As soon as I heard I headed over to get some pictures.

Head over to Flickr to see the rest of the pictures.

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I was planning on going on a hiking trip in Peru to Machu Picchu in October, but I can’t go due to work. Such is startup life…

The trip combines hiking along a secluded Inca trail with overnight stays at traditional mountain lodges. It’s been sold out for weeks but I have two spots. Send me an email if you’re interested.

I signed up for Twitter recently. You can follow me at twitter.com/jonlech.

I will be in Asia from early to mid August. I am heading to Tokyo first and then Beijing for the Olympics. If anyone wants to meet up, send me an email.

I will be attending WWDC next week. If anyone wants to meet up, send me an email. We are still looking for a full-time Cocoa developer to work out of our San Francisco office.

doubleTwist is a one year old start-up in San Francisco backed by the same people who were behind Skype and Last.FM. Our mission is to simplify the flow of media to a wide range of CE devices and between family and friends. We are looking for a Cocoa developer to join our Mac team and work on the MacOS X version of doubleTwist. The Mac team currently consists of three people.

Requirements:
3+ years of Objective-C and Cocoa experience
A passion for improving the user experience around digital media

Plusses:
Experience with one or more of these APIs: IOKit, QTKit, CoreAudio
Involvement in/contributions to open source projects
Experience with the iPhone SDK

To apply, send your resume to jon at doubletwist.com. If possible, include code samples and/or links to open source projects you’ve contributed to.

Actually, no. I went to the Apple Store earlier with a friend who got a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. We were in and out in 5 minutes. This no-camping procedure is also known as having a life. Too bad for those who over-estimated the demand, camped for hours or even days thinking that they’ll be able to sell their iPhone on CL for $2000.

Letting Norwegians loose in the duty free store is like letting kids loose in Disneyland…

A 1l bottle of Martini Bianco is 150 NOK (25 USD) at the monopoly store in Norway. At the airport it’s 50 NOK (8.5 USD).

I am moving to a new apartment so I’m cleaning out old stuff. The following is for sale to anyone in San Francisco:

• AirPort Express: Used for a couple of months. This is the device I used when I reverse engineered AirTunes and authored JustePort, the first non-Apple software to support AirTunes. $120.
• HP Photosmart R717: Used for 1.5 years. 1GB MMC card included. Have a look at my gallery for some pictures taken with this camera. $150.
• Unlocked Motorola V330 GSM: Barely used. Charger and car charger included. $100.
• Creative Labs Webcam Live Ultra for Notebook VF0070: Used only a couple of times. $60.

I am also selling a 7 day old 1.83GHz MacBook. Used for testing. Original box. $1120.

Update: The MacBook and the webcam have been sold.

I’ve moved to San Francisco. Why? As one of you commented, San Francisco girls are cuter than San Diego girls

I’ll be joining DoubleTwist Ventures.

My new favourite snack: the Black Cherry Almond Clif Bar. Great for all-night reverse engineering sessions.

(I did not get paid for this blog post, but I’m hoping someone from Clif Bar & Co. will see this and send me a few boxes!)

Update: Thanks Amy!