After almost exactly 10 years touring the West coast (Seattle, LA, San Francisco Bay Area), Anne and I (and Audrey too!) are moving back East, to Boston. It’s something that we’ve wanted to do for a long time, but things have been good at Yahoo, and it didn’t seem like I could leave that. The …
The original lolcat: The new lolinvestor: Carl Icahn is trying to replace the Yahoo! board. idea stolen from a valleywag commenter.
I’ve been reading the glowing reviews for OS X’s Time Machine backup system and Apple’s Time Capsule backup drive. Apple seems to have finally made backups simple and automatic. With Time Capsule, they’ve combined it with a fast network router, simplifying things even more. While I think all this technology is cool, I think it …
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innings spent waiting to buy hot dogs: 1.5 number of hot dogs purchased: 0 number of churros eaten: 2 number of pretzels eaten: 2 row number of the seats on our ticket stubs: 34 row we sat in from the 8th inning on: 17 game attendance: 36,067 runs scored: 3 runs scored by the Red …
While I was busy trying to sleep last night, I starting thinking about all the concerts I went to when I didn’t have a kid and I could go to concerts. It quickly became a very long list, so I thought I’d see if I could list all the artists I’ve seen live. Now many …
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In my first job out of college, I went to work for a startup in Boston, Agents, Inc. They had developed some collaborative filtering technology that they applied to generate pretty darn good movies and music recommendations. I created my user account (‘bowtah’, account number 51066) on ffly.com late 1995. When I started, they were …
Anne’s been taking Audrey out (or is it the other way around?) to libraries for story time. They both really like it. At one recent lapsit at the Sunnyvale Library, the library made a video. Audrey appears at the 1 minute and 12 second mark. I don’t know they showed the other babies so much; …
Anne’s been going nuts with buying books for Audrey recently. I think the kid has more books than I do now. A few weeks ago it got to the point where we had nowhere to put them all so we went down to Ikea and bought a bookshelf. Anne went to a few more book …
I decided a few weeks ago that my home page was getting embarrassingly old again. The last redesign was in 2002, so I redesigned it, focusing on making it both a place to see what’s the latest, and find an archive of things past. At the same time, I used some amazingly cutting edge technologies …
I’m really amazed at how intact the 2007 Red Sox are so far with less than 2 months to spring training. Not a single key player is left to sign and only a couple that got regular playing time in 2007 have been let go. I took the 25-man World Series roster and added a …