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After much deliberation and decision-making, I finally took the plunge and sent in my confirmation card — to Brown University.

Yes, it’s a complete about-face from my original decision; I really did think I would end up at WPI. But the more I thought, and the more I researched, and the more I walked around Providence, the more appealing Brown became, until it was finally too hard to say no.

I shall spend the next few months preparing myself for the workload an Ivy League school can dish out. Somebody help me.

Right now, I’m in Spain, probably loving it. Wanna’ see what we’re doing? Check the official Spain blog!

The Mounties are back on top. Congratulations on a great season, going out in style! I wasn’t able to get much with my phone, but I do have a few pictures from the very end.

I’m just putting the finishing touches on the first fully-working (and actually useful) TuneConnect 2 plug-in: a Last.fm interface. For those not familiar with it, Last.fm is a music-based social networking site, that uses the music you listen to (automatically submitted to the site by various players, a process called “scrobbling” ) to make recommendations, and also connect you with people who have similar tastes. You can see some of the stuff TuneConnect has already posted to my profile during normal use.

Thanks to Laurent Baumann, the designer of both of TuneConnect’s new icons, for the Last.fm sidebar design. Credit where credit is due.

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Just yesterday, TuneConnect 2 Beta 1 was released to my loyal and wonderful beta testers. It was indeed an exciting moment.

With the release on OS X just a little over a month away, it’s time to start some serious marketing. Word on the street is () that the best way to market is by word on the street.

That is, get the Mac bloggers talking—get anyone talking, for that mater. The more people get excited about a product, the more people will want to find out more. I’ve sent emails to all of the major Mac blogs (complete with beta access ), and I’m even talking it up with a... (more...)