Well, another season of the Amazing Race is done. It seemed to me that the winners this season were the most deserving of the 3 teams left this time around. What was most strange about this season is that they visited countries that were the original homes of several engineers I’ve hired. India (no surprise …
Continue reading ‘The Amazing Race: Engineer Recruitment Edition’ »
Ever since I moved to the west coast, I’ve longed to find a good donut shop. I don’t know what’s wrong with the places around here, but you can’t get a decent cruller. Even after Krispy Kreme arrived, I prefer Dunkin’s, of which there are none in California anymore. A few months ago someone mentioned …
I’ve been a fan of Zhorn Software’s Stickies for Windows, but now that I’ve switched to a Mac, I need to get all those stickies back. First I had to find the stickies file on my Windows Laptop, located under C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR NAME]\Application Data\stickies\stickies.ini. I copied that to my Mac and wrote this little …
Continue reading ‘Importing Stickies from Windows to Macintosh’ »
You have to be careful what you wish for. A few weeks ago, my Windows laptop (provided by Yahoo!) was feeling kinda slow. There were little problems that I couldn’t seem to fix with the OS and I began to feel like it would be a good idea to wipe it clean, reinstall Windows and …
On October 17, Yahoo! announced that its long-awaited new ad system, “Panama” was live. I’m not sure if this meant it was live for everything, but starting that day, the revenue from my Yahoo Publisher Network ads went up significantly. Comparing the 17 days before and after the Panama upgrade, my revenue went up 114%! …
For a long time I’ve thought it would be fun to go to The Bridge School Concert. Lots of big name acts in short sets, kind of like an artist sampler. I told Anne about it and she began checking for tickets. When it was announced, the only seats available were $70. $70!?? That’s too …
Continue reading ‘The Longest Concert Ever: The Bridge School Concert’ »
Quite simply – everyone is paid to love Google. Bloggers love Google because it pays their bills. AdSense makes it easy for anyone to set up a blog and make money. Corporate websites love Google for the same reason. AdSense is a huge business. Know-it-alls love Google because they get paid for surfing the web. …
Yesterday was the day we had signed up for a Segway tour of the Los Gatos creek trail. South Bay Segway is a tiny little operation in the back section of an industrial building. We almost missed it. As we drove up there were only two Segways parked in the doorway, indicating that we were …
The other day someone asked me if I had written anything Python. My response was a quick “no”. I’ve invested a lot of time in Perl and PHP (and to some extent Java) and I’d have to have a really good reason to learn Yet Another Programming Language. CPAN and Pear are rich API libraries …
Ever since the Segway came out, it has been the subject of many geeky lunchtime conversations. They were always just too cool. Now I’m actually considering buying one. I would mostly use it to get back and forth to work. I live only 1.5 miles away, but it takes too long to walk and it …