Chris Webb's Lifestream

Having breakfast with my oldest son at Sunrise Cafe. What 4 year old loves poached eggs?

Jul 2nd

RT @DanielLiterary: Newsweek’s 50 Books to Read Now, and Why: http://bit.ly/2eTz1

Jul 2nd

Busy day ahead - moving new books into the approval process. Lot’s of signing going on over...

Jul 2nd

Yikes RT @TelegraphMG: 28 Wimbledon staff sent home with suspected Swine Flu : Nearly 30 staff...

Jul 2nd

Anyone know anyone at the Bonnie Doon Ice Cream Company? I have an out of state friend who wants...

Jul 2nd

New Elonex ebook reader exclusive at Borders UK. - http://is.gd/1kpcV

Jul 2nd

Dads, my 4 yr old ends up playing with our Lego creations, mostly vehicles. Do you ever glue them...

Jul 2nd

Hoping for Firefox 3.5 today. Nothing on the official site at the moment…

Jul 1st

A little URL hacking on the Mozilla download site gets me a Firefox 3.5 exe. I wonder if it is the...

Jul 1st

Can anyone confirm Firefox 3.5 final is actually Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;...

Jul 1st

Barnes & Noble announces new bookstore application for iPhone - http://is.gd/1icI5 Me: Can...

Jun 30th

“Waiting for ad.doubleclick.net…” FAIL.

Jun 30th

Research at the bookstore. Borders first then B&N, and then on to an indy store.

Jun 30th

No retrial in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement case (BBC link): http://is.gd/1icVi

Jun 30th

While browsing in a bookstore, would you purchase a shrink-wrapped book if all you could see was the...

Jun 30th

Could be just the store I was in, but every book from this publisher, within this category, was...

Jun 30th

Google Voice up and running. Pretty cool - even got a vanity number.

Jun 27th

I had the Farrah poster and the Thriller album. Did you?

Jun 26th

Wow. Just saw my CNN email alert confirming Michael Jackson’s death. It was stamped 7:35pm...

Jun 26th

Just noticed “Verified Account” on @KevinSpacey ‘s profile. New Twitter feature I...

Jun 26th

Amazon’s Kindle division in staffing and acquisition mode - mobile apps division set for...

Jun 26th

Just pre-ordered my Windows 7 Home Premium upgrades for just $49.00 on Amazon.com :...

Jun 26th

Just had a little brainstorming session with the other publishers at the end of a meeting. That...

Jun 26th

Upgrade for XP and Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium said to be only $49.00 (limits apply)...

Jun 25th

RT @devinemke: emailed Wired magazine asking why they are not yet available on the kindle. i mean...

Jun 25th

My new desktop wallpaper - RT @smashingmag: This is where I’d love to live (PIC) -...

Jun 25th

Waiting for @jennylwebb at @starbucks for coffee and a bite.

Jun 24th

With Clear gone out of business, what happens to all the sensitive personal user data (including...

Jun 24th

Busy day ahead. Moving books into US Proposal Meetings, sending contracts, and reviewing...

Jun 24th

Have a Kindle? Want a Kindle? Take a look at Amazon’s new See a Kindle in Your City -...

Jun 24th

Hi everyone, I’m back from Argentina - what did I miss? :)

Jun 24th

Holy cow - US beats Spain ?!

Jun 24th

Also, my Blackberry Curve decides to do an Enterprise Activation for no reason at random times. No...

Jun 23rd

A few times in the last 10 days by Blackberry Curve just dies. Battery charged, but it shuts down...

Jun 23rd

Bookmark this: complete list of free ebooks from Amazon’s Kindle Store, sorted by date:...

Jun 23rd

Excited I was able to nab sold-out-everywhere Star Wars Galactic Heroes set for my son’s 4th...

Jun 23rd

RT @shawnz: Note to self: Not all haystacks contain needles.

Jun 22nd

Indiana University Press launches new online subscription and purchase options http://is.gd/19kOF...

Jun 22nd

Fantastic Father’s Day with the family at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum, a little...

Jun 22nd

Increasing productivity with a little Sly and the Family Stone.

Jun 22nd

And away we go…

Jun 22nd

Going to grill up some baby back ribs today. Do you bake yours before grilling them?

Jun 20th

Morning with my boys while @jennylwebb helps out with the Summer Sale for charity at Church. Heading...

Jun 20th

Seems like the iPhone 3Gs upgrade was really low key - not the mass of people standing in lines all...

Jun 20th

Just back from Donuts with Dad at my sons’ preschool. Father’s Day weekend is one of my...

Jun 19th

RT @jafurtado Waterstone’s suspends customer prepayments, delivery dates on the books could...

Jun 19th

Thanks to @elleinthecity for sending along my copies of Trust Agents ( http://is.gd/16r93) and...

Jun 19th

Congratulations to @jennylwebb - 15 years with John Wiley & Sons!

Jun 19th

“We have become fascinated with building potential spaces.” - @zefrank

Jun 19th

Dads - what are you doing this Father’s Day weekend?

Jun 19th

Is this you? Looking for UK-based photographer with writing experience for a special project.

Jun 19th

Twitter For Dummies is in our warehouse TODAY! Ships out to bookstores next week...

Jun 19th

Purchased Estes rocket engines for “big launch” with my sons this weekend. Haven’t...

Jun 18th

hey @jwikert - XM radio on your iPhone http://is.gd/15l59

Jun 18th

Google Books 2.0: Smarter Search and Easy Embeds - http://bit.ly/NFixJ (via @mashable )

Jun 18th

And by that I mean I can only see @tweetdeck maximized, can’t window it to another monitor....

Jun 17th

It’s not you, it’s me. Haven’t been very social lately - extremely busy with some...

Jun 17th

Ugh - when I change my monitor config, or go from dual monitors to just laptop, Tweetdeck refuses to...

Jun 17th

Been looking at some #thesis skins not ‘cause I cant do my own design, but because I am really...

Jun 17th

oooh - Kindle source code for “modified software packages used in the Kind device.” Need...

Jun 17th

True Blood season premier tonight on HBO. Who’s with me?

Jun 15th

NIN’s Trent Reznor on Social Media: “the experiment seems to have yielded a result....

Jun 12th

Bought my (nearly) 4 year old his first T-Ball bat at lunch. First practice was last night -...

Jun 11th

Unboxing the new Amazon Kindle DX e-book reader at PCMag.com’s offices. http://tr.im/o4AZ (via...

Jun 11th

ScrollMotion announces a partnership with Wiley to bring textbooks to the iPhone

Jun 9th

iPhone 3GS $199

Jun 9th

I assume the appropriate license has been obtained to broadcast “Radar Love” during this...

Jun 9th

Assuming Twitter withstands the crush from #wwdc09, here is a nice mashup with live updates &...

Jun 9th

New iPhone in 80 countries by August

Jun 9th

RT @chrisgarrett: new iPhone up on Apple UK site http://www.apple.com/uk/

Jun 9th

iPhone 3GS available June 19

Jun 9th

iPhone 3G down to $99

Jun 9th

Hashtag for today’s Apple WWDC? #wwdc?

Jun 8th

Started a 6 week study of The Life You’ve Always Wanted with @jennylwebb at church last night.

Jun 5th

Logging into the network as @david_mayhew. Probably going to send some email.

Jun 5th

Taking my (almost) 4 year old to the Indianapolis Air Show tomorrow to see the Blue Angels and...

Jun 5th

Anyone else been listening to the new DMB? What do you think?

Jun 5th

RT @voidspace: Gizmodo on Zune: “tighter and more physically beautiful than the iPod Touch and...

Jun 5th

RT @fishers: Fishers officials warning residents beware unscrupulous contractors who might flood the...

Jun 5th

Ironic that all these “Personal Branding For Dummies” blog posts leverage someone...

Jun 5th

In local publishing news… RT @IIB: Indiana Publisher Buys Competitor http://tinyurl.com/ofcu29

Jun 5th

RT @codeles: going to publish a book titled ‘Sequel’, but going to insist on it being...

Jun 5th

RT @cogdog: bought the Twitter on the cover issue of Time magazine. Old print media is so…...

Jun 5th

Gasp, Gasp, #comingupforair

Jun 4th

TETRIS is 25 years old this month? http://is.gd/N84m (PDF Press Release)

Jun 3rd

Well, will be dealing with the insurance company tomorrow. Claims and adjusters and deductibles, oh...

Jun 3rd

http://twitpic.com/6hpgx - What the Hail?

Jun 3rd

Still have a few open spots - iPhone Developers to get sneak peek @ upcoming title plus a free copy...

Jun 3rd

Wondering if we will laugh about dedicated ebook readers in 5 years. Deliver my digital content to...

Jun 2nd

Pauline Frommer is mad at the TSA, and says you should be too. http://is.gd/MuCh (thanks @drigotti)

Jun 2nd

LOST Fans: RT @paizo: LOL. Smoke Monster from Lost gets own spinoff show: http://tinyurl.com/q3d2bl...

Jun 2nd

I can follow users back from within the @topify email by simply replying? FTW!

Jun 1st

“bring back papyrus and monks with quills!” @blogcritics Didn’t get that from the...

Jun 1st

Family Guy tonight is rerun of Star Trek Convention with @wilw and @lavarburton

Jun 1st

Squirrel!

Jun 1st

Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon http://is.gd/LsR8 Me: The more choices , the...

Jun 1st

Looking over Microsoft’s #e3 #xbox360 announcements today - amazing. Remember when Bill Gates...

Jun 1st