Until recently, good interactive maps were something you could only get from desktop software like Streets and Trips or MapSource. When Google Maps came out, it was quickly hacked for use on other websites. I didn’t think this would last, but when I did, I started playing with it myself. And then even more surprisingly, …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …