Announcing Yahoo! News Labs
Check out the new Yahoo! News Labs, a place where we’re experimenting with new ideas in Yahoo! News. I can write more, but you might as well just read my post on the Yahoo! News Labs 360 blog.
Archive of entries posted on June 2005
True Geocaching Stories
Here are two amazing stories from Geocaching logs I saw this week. The first was a guy who lifted up a random light pole cover in a parking lot to demonstrate where people sometimes hide caches and actually found a cache – mine! 3 PM Some friends and I came to this “Museum” after lunch …
Siriusly, this is the future of radio?
My Mom won a Sirius satellite radio receiver with a free 3 month subscription. My parents didn’t want it and I wasn’t eager to start paying for radio either, but it seemed like a fun thing to try for free, so they agreed to send it to me to try. It arrived on Monday and …
My Wednesday
Here’s a typical Wednesday: 8:30 – Wake up unnaturally late and realize I’m missing an 8:30 conference call 8:40 – Dial into conference call from the couch while reading email 9:00 – Take a shower, get dressed 9:40 – Arrive at work, look at calendar for the day: mostly meetings all day 9:45 – Status …
Punnery
My Dad forwarded this one on. Some really good puns here, more than the usual vulgar joke! Energizer Bunny arrested – charged with battery A pessimist’s blood type is always b-negative. Practice safe eating – always use condiments. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. Shotgun wedding: A case …
The blogosphere has promoted me
Thanks MediaPost, for announcing my promotion from lowly Engineering Manager to Yahoo! Executive Management! I’m sure my boss will be by my cube any minute now to hand me the keys to the executive washroom. But calling Jeremy a Marketer – isn’t that considered libel for an engineer? Factchecking is for wussies anyway. By the …
Samsung ML-1740 Printer Drivers for Macs
12/2011 Update: I can confirm that the Splix drivers work great! Dear GoogleBot, Yahoo! Slurp, MSNBot, Ask Jeeves/Teoma, etc., Yesterday I purchased a really cheap laser printer, the Samsung ML-1740. There were conflicting reports of whether or not the printer would work with my Mac. Apparently Samsung had a driver, but then pulled it. After …
Continue reading ‘Samsung ML-1740 Printer Drivers for Macs’ »
Celebrity Spotting in Silicon Valley
In LA, if you want to watch for celebrities, you go hang out in Hollywood, Burbank or Rodeo Drive. Apparently in Silicon Valley you hang out in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. On Saturday, I put on my headphones and went on a solo 13-mile, 12-geocache hike of most of the trails in the …
And You Think I’m Crazy
I first met Dinesh and his wife Joy at the highest point of the PG&E trail in Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve. We were exhaused after climbing the steep trail on a warm day. They were resting at the top of the hill. I was trying to discretely search for a cache there while …
What to do, what to do?
I think I spent half of my free time (when Anne is busy) deciding what to do with my free time. Usually it’s an hour or two at home at night or a half-hour in the morning. The possibilities are usually: 1. Log my Geocaching finds 2. Write some code for a website (usually Geocaching-related) …