http://darienbrown.com -noun. Male, 25 year old Seattle resident; hopeful entrepreneur Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:39:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://darienbrown.com/2010/01/happy-and-unhappy/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://darienbrown.com/2010/01/i-need-to-learn-korean/ This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://darienbrown.com/2010/01/so-far-so-good/ Things have been busy, and I haven't had the attention capacity to blog much.  I just wanted to give a really brief update on what's been going on at YongoPal over the last month, or so. About a month ago Jon and I invited a friend of ours, Daron Hall, to ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/12/updates-on-yongopal/ [caption id="attachment_363" align="alignright" width="300" caption=""Microsoft: We Suck Less Now""][/caption] So this ad popped up on Pandora this morning and I just had to grab a screen shot.  I find this whole Windows 7 campaign to be one of the more perplexing that I've seen in a while.  Microsoft is actually trying ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/11/seriously-microsoft-thats-your-sell/ The other day, I met an entrepreneur who came into the office to meet with Support My Web about a new project he is building.  We ended up talking, and both of us shared the projects we are working on. His background was very interesting to me.  In the late 90's, ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/11/misunderstanding-success/ Sometimes I read comments from strangers on my blog that say things like, "Are you a professional journalist?  You write very well!" and it makes me feel happy and excited.  Then I realize identical comments appear a dozen times and they all link to an online Viagra clearinghouse.  /sigh. http://darienbrown.com/2009/10/sometimes/ Repost from YongoPal: It's almost ready! We have had to delay our soft launch one week (to November 7), because we realized that the YongoPal scheduling app won't have the ability to adjust to standard time from daylight savings. We'll have plenty of time to fix this before the ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/10/almost-there/ Repost from YongoPal: So we estimate that we're about a month from launch as of right now. By next week all of the core functionality of the site will be completely in-place, after a small re-working, and we will be left with the task of debugging the site and fleshing ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/09/yongopal-screenshots/ Repost from YongoPal: Okay, so it’s been way too long since the last YongoPal update, so I should probably fill everyone in.  A lot has happened in the last couple of months, and it’s been a bit of a roller coaster. Almost two months ago, the developer assigned to our project abruptly quit ... http://darienbrown.com/2009/09/finally-an-update/