Clay Shirky’s essays are usually something that ends up in my inbox and I skip over, usually because they’re too long to rip through and move on to other things. Today I tried to make good on my promise to myself to not put things off and read it right away. Dealing with it right …
Here’s a first – I’m blogging from the beach. Point Reyes to be exact. Anne’s been wanting to do a backpacking trip here for a long time, so she made reservations a few months ago. On the way in, we realized that we had never actually gone backpacking with just the two of us. We’ve …
If you’re reading this and using a Mac with Safari as your browser, you’re obligated to install this. Safari2Yahoo Otherwise, you will make me sad. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
I had a very strange dream last night where Britney Spears was asking me about how she was doing on the Yahoo! Buzz Index. As typical in most dreams, I could not get to buzz.yahoo.com and the link from yahoo.com was removed. Very embarrassing. I did get a very cool GPS watch though. Not sure …
The 120GB hard drive on my TiVo is full. Not that all of that is good stuff, but we’ve clearly been getting behind. So last night we went to the oldest programs and saw that we haven’t watched “The Practice” in a couple months. We ended up watching 3 1-hour episodes back to back in …
See what happens when you try to cook fish sticks? You get shot. After my previous bad fish stick experiences, I tried again last weekend. I burnt them to a crisp. But wait! Last night I got some different fish sticks from costco (118 per bag!) and stuck them in the regular oven rather than …
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Well, if Jeremy can do it, so can I. I’m hiring. That’s right, if you’re a nerdy type that doesn’t like to sleep and you’ve got mad programming or operations skillz, Yahoo! might be the right place to you. Caveat: I’ll be your boss. Mitigant: Reading my blog is encouraged but not required. Software Engineer …
I’m really getting tired of all these sites that insist on adding ‘ster’ to the end of their names. First there was Napster, then AIMster, then Feedster, and now Eurekster, a personalized search engine. I’m sure there are many more; those are just what I can think of off the top of my head. Shawn …
I finally got going with the MySQL server on the machine that hosts boulter.com. One of the first things I did was import MT into the database, for two reasons: having all this stuff in db files is scary and mysql makes it a lot easiser to delete all the comment spam I’ve been getting …
It arrived at my desk Friday, my 40GB iPod, disguised in a rather large box in which was a much smaller box with the actual shrinkwrapped box inside. Once all that was out of the way, I actually got to open the thing. The box has a sheath that comes off, then folds open with …