Turning 23

June 30, 2009 · 30 comments

Not much to say today other than I’m now 23 years of age! Posting around here has been a little slow and will continue to be for a while. I caught some virus and have had fever for the last week and according to the ER doctor at the hospital, it’ll be another week or two 4-6 weeks before I get my energy back. In the meantime, I’ll be playing Flight Control in bed with my shiny new iPhone 3GS.

I’ve got a lot of good post ideas in the pipeline, including a simple HDR photo how to. As always, you can suggest things for me to blog about on my Skribit profile. We just rolled out some big Skribit updates last week with more on the way. I also recently created a frequently updated Stuff I Use page to keep track of applications, services and hardware I regularly use. TextExpander and Fever were the most recent additions (both recommended). Any other apps or services I should check out?

As always, thanks for reading and subscribing to PSTAM this year!

Related: Turning 20, 21, 22

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1 Arstan June 30, 2009 at 12:52 am

Happy birthday! Get well soon!

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2 Patrick June 30, 2009 at 1:46 am

i knew you would break down and grab a 3GS. Did you get the subsidized price or was it pure shiny new gadget lust? I wasn’t planning on upgrading but walked past the apple store, a huge mistake, and ended up grabbing the 32 gb. I’m very pleased so far

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3 titanium_geek June 30, 2009 at 1:52 am

happy birthday!

I know a guy who works at the place they made flight control. small world!

Hope you get better soon.

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4 Chris Goodrich June 30, 2009 at 1:58 am

I decided last night to splurge the $30 to buy a license of Fever myself. So far I really like it and it’s definitely worth the $30.

I had to download and import Shawn Blanc’s OPML file to have enough sparks to get my “hot” items a little more on topic. Did your “hot” items automatically show stories of interest to you? It seems like it’s a work in progress to get the “hot” items to be relevant.

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5 Chris Marshall June 30, 2009 at 2:50 am

Happy birthday, and get well soon!!!

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6 Ravi June 30, 2009 at 3:11 am

Glad to hear I’m not the only one hopelessly addicted to Flight Control while bedridden. What’s your high score?

PS. Hope you feel better soon (drink that OJ!).

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7 Ivan Brezak Brkan June 30, 2009 at 3:58 am

Happy bday, mate! You’re so old! :D

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8 Abraham Vegh June 30, 2009 at 4:38 am

Happy 23rd, Paul! Hope you feel better soon!

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9 Rob Goodlatte June 30, 2009 at 5:01 am

Happy birthday Stammy!

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10 Banyú June 30, 2009 at 6:03 am

Happy Birthday sir. Try “Let’s golf” on the iPhone 3gs.

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11 luca June 30, 2009 at 6:04 am

Happy Birthday Paul!

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12 Amro Mousa June 30, 2009 at 9:16 am

You’re an old guy now! ..errr Happy Birthday!

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13 SpaceyG June 30, 2009 at 9:16 am

Why bless your heart, hon. Life can be so suck-y. Sometimes. You’ll be better soon. You’re young. Happy Birthday!!

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14 Dimitry June 30, 2009 at 9:28 am

Get better fast! Happy birthday man. Can’t believe you’re only 10 months younger than me :p

Catch-up with you soon

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15 Franklin June 30, 2009 at 10:03 am

And here I was thinking that MacBook Pro users don’t get viruses like PC users…anyway…Happy birthday and get well soon.

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16 Peter Filias June 30, 2009 at 10:22 am

Happy Birthday!

I think TextExpander is awesome…Flight Control is loads of fun. For the few times I’ve played, 32 is my record, on the aircraft carrier screen.

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17 Dev June 30, 2009 at 10:22 am

Happy Birthday Bro! Get Well Soon :)

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18 Isaak Kwok June 30, 2009 at 11:59 am

Happy Birthday, Paul. And get well soon.

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19 Markus Langenfeld June 30, 2009 at 12:06 pm

Happy Birthday! Hope you feel better soon.

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20 Wes June 30, 2009 at 6:57 pm

Wow, your birthday is today, Paul? So is mine! I turn 21. Happy Birthday and keep up the good blog work!

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21 Josh July 2, 2009 at 12:27 pm

Happy birthday big bro!

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22 WulfCry July 2, 2009 at 2:25 pm

Happy birthday stranger get well quick.

Nice blogs you got by the way :).

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23 Jonathan Solichin July 2, 2009 at 2:55 pm

Congratulations on being 23! I feel lucky for being the 23rd comments haha ;)
Best of luck with everything!

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24 Supercreep July 2, 2009 at 7:39 pm

23 has significance! Not since you were 4, 8, 15, and 16 have you been so significant. The next significant age for you is 42. After that, you will be useless. Let’s see how you progress in the next 19 years!

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25 HK July 5, 2009 at 4:03 pm

Paul. Happy Birthday! Hope you get better soon.

We remixed Michelle Williams’ song including a video clip, see what you think and support would be aprreciated!

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26 dutchmarbel July 7, 2009 at 4:32 am

Happy birthday and many happy returns. Hope you feel better soon!

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27 phossil July 9, 2009 at 11:35 pm

Happy belated birthday.
I hope you get well soon..

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28 The Crazy Colombian July 28, 2009 at 3:43 pm

Happy Belated Birthday Paul!

I wanted to ask you a question: with my wife and I working as middle to senior executives for multinational companies, we’ve had our share of ’security talks’ from ex-MI5 and the like, and they strongly discourage sharing information in public forums (even Facebook!) that could lead to people either

a) Having more information that could be used to steal our identities, or
b) Learning of our physicial whereabouts

I guess the thought is that political / environmental / whatever activists can get a bit crazy some times and if they decide to target your company (one you work for now, or one you’ve worked for in the past), and they can locate you, it can get pretty dangerous. Similarly, with identity theft being the fastest growing crime in the US and abroad, it is silly to give (implcitly) your DOB to everyone in the net.

What are your thoughts? Are these ideas the result or a paranoid mind, or do they have some merit?

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29 Jessica Sideways August 10, 2009 at 4:12 pm

Happy birthday! We are both Cancerians and our birthdays are 8 days away. And only a year apart (I turned 22 this year).

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