http://brainmurmurs.com/blog Guerrilla computing in the mountains of Seattle Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After 8 great years of business, we are transitioning Brain Murmurs into inactivity, effective immediately, as we shift our focus entirely to our spin-off company, Black Pixel. We'd like to thank all of the customers we worked with over the years, it's been a great run. -Daniel Pasco, Lisa Hartin, Garrett Kelly, ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2010/10/18/brain-murmurs-now-inactive/ I am sorry to say that circumstances beyond our control have forced us to shut down the Mentat service for the foreseeable future. User data is available for those customers that need it and can be provided upon request. -Daniel Pasco, CEO Brain Murmurs, Inc. http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2010/10/18/mentat-service-discontinued/ Systems were down intermittently during a routine upgrade of the Mentat servers and their associated power subsystem.  There are no further outages expected at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2009/11/12/mentat-hardware-update/ Our network performance continued to degrade well into the weekend, and we eventually traced the issues to our router. After a herculean struggle, I believe that we finally have a stable, fast network topology for Mentat. We apologize for any inconvenience that this might have caused. At ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/12/13/mentat-network-update/ We've are migrating the Mentat service to a very high bandwidth service provider and will very likely experience periodic outages for the next few hours. Service interruption should not continue after this evening. -Daniel http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/11/01/mentat-infrastructure-updates-continue/ As a result of the availability of numerous BlackBerry devices supporting Bluetooth dialup networking, Pulse has been obsolete for over a year. As a result, Pulse is no longer available for sale as of 10/16/2008. The gateway will still be available as long as Austin Web Development is willing to provide ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/10/16/announcement-pulse-end-of-life/ The Mentat website will be down later this month while we migrate to a new IT infrastructure. We have spent most of this month working on a new, highly scalable architecture for the site and are excited with the performance gains we are seeing! We will provide 24 hours notice ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/10/16/upcoming-maintenance-at-gomentatcom/ The Mentat web service has been updated to include contexts, subprojects, and data export.   Coinciding with this, Black Pixel Luminance has announced Aria Touch, a native iPhone application that supports both Mentat and FogBugz.   http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/07/10/mentat-site-update/ The past couple of days I've been working on adding "contexts" to Mentat. This key component to the GTD methodology was a major feature request so it was first on our list of things to add to the Mentat system. Contexts in Mentat will work like this - Although you have ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/05/22/first-waves-of-contexts/ We're moving back towards a focus on updating the Mentat website now that we've got a few mobile/desktop Mentat-empowered clients under our belt (Mentat Blackberry, Aria, Arioso). Today we compiled a list of feature requests and began prioritizing what we felt was most dire in building out and improving ... http://brainmurmurs.com/blog/2008/05/19/under-development/