Month: May 2011

  • A Few Events Coming Up That Most Likely Won’t Suck

    I know, “way to set the bar high”, huh?  I’m a big fan of “plausible deniability” – you can’t blame us if something goes wrong this way 🙂 There are a few events coming up in the near future that you probably ought to be paying attention to.  There’s a little something for everyone –…

  • Opening Up A Bit, Downtime, June event, and Some Jobs – Updates for 5/26/2011

    As always, a huge “thank you” to everyone that came out to the BlackFinn last week.  Another great event, and we’re seeing a lot of new faces…usually accompanied by some familiar ones, which is the way this is supposed to work, after all.  We’re not supposed to be the Skull and Bones society…it’s okay to…

  • BlackFinn Event Tonight! Jobs and Updates for 5/19/2011

    We’ve got one of our casual networking events tonight at the BlackFinn.  Look forward to seeing you there! It seems like only last week we were hoping for the Red Wings to finish pulling off an amazing comeback…oh, wait, that was just last week.  Wow.  Time flies when you’ve stopped caring about the playoffs.  Well,…

  • CloudDevDay, Red Wings, Geekfest 2011, BlackFinn Next Thursday!

    Okay true believers – let’s start with the important stuff.  Get your Commander Chaos tinfoil costumes and retro Atari t-shirts out, because it’s that most wonderful time of the year – Motor City Comic Con is this weekend!  Pop culture icons, Playboy bunnies, actresses you lusted after in your youth (and the ones you lust…

  • Stuff for 5/5/2011

    Yeah, I know – I’m getting lazy and basically just phoning in titles these days.  It happens. Hope everyone had a great #starwarsday yesterday…and yes, you non-Star Wars geeks, thank you for indulging those of us that are with all of our “May the Fourth be with you” cracks and comments.  But beware of tomorrow…for…

  • Detroit JUG is awesome, offers discount tickets to CloudDevDay for ITintheD.org folks

    Read about CloudDevDay here: http://clouddevday.com/ “The goal of CloudDevDay is to educate Detroit and SE Michigan software developers about building applications in and for the Cloud. This will be an introduction for many of the attendees and the presenters know that. Infrastructure As a Service and Platform as a Service technologies present huge opportunities for…