Archive for August, 2005

My summer vacation: skateboarding documentaries, Adam Curry, and White Stripes

Tomorrow is Day 1 in the new job at Yahoo! but I was able to squeeze in quite a bit of leisure over my short vacation. One mildly strange occurrence during my vacation proves that you really can’t escape podcasting.
As part of my super-relaxation escape-from-the-Internet plan before the new job, I went [...]


On vacation

Normally, I would just post a note saying, “I’m on vacation, don’t expect anything here until next week,” but a recent shot of me napping at a weekend retreat captured the essence of vacation so perfectly that I have to include it here, though it is of the slightly embarrassing napping-with-my-mouth-open sort.
Thanks for [...]


Berkeley: the magic and the guilt

I’ve been thinking a lot about Berkeley lately. It’s where I’ve lived for the past seven years and the only home I’ve known in the Bay Area. One of the reasons I’m so excited about the new Yahoo job is that I’ll be working at least some of the time at Yahoo! Research [...]


Joining Yahoo!

Yes, folks, I announced today that I am leaving InfoWorld after four and a half amazing years to join Yahoo, working within the Technology Development group in the Search division (Jeremy gives a few hints as to what we’ll all be doing over there). I’m particularly excited that I’ll be spending some time [...]