Archive for May, 2007
The miracle on I-580
In a world where the-sky-is-falling sensationalist media is the norm, the conclusion to the saga of the collapsed freeway here in the Bay Area is downright inspiring: the contractor (C.C. Myers) finished the job early! When is the last time things came together so nicely on a highway project? Wow! The lede [...]
MyBlogLog adds tagging
Yes, MyBlogLog has implemented tagging. Get all the details here, along with some thoughts from Mike at Techcrunch.
Nice job, Eric, Todd, John, Steve, Chris, Robyn, and Ian! (yep, that list is getting longer)
For now, I seem to own the tag “optimist.” I’ll take it!
Oh yeah, the team is hiring.
Welcoming Jon Williams to the blogosphere
I just go an email from Jon Williams, a friend and CTO of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, and he let me know that he is now blogging (feed here). Excellent! Jon is one of my favorite CTOs and an all-around good guy, as evidenced by the fact that Jon was on the [...]
Born on a train: Twitter and musical serendipity
I had plans this weekend and Twitter led me astray from them briefly, but I discovered a new cover of an old favorite in the process.
It all started when I woke up on Saturday morning, checked in with Twitter, and noticed that Cody had twittered: “Departing to Kansas for the weekend. If Magnetic Fields changed [...]
The PC World controversy resolved: the invisible hand of Pat McGovern
[Update: Wired posted something after I had started writing this that suggested that Pat McGovern's hand wasn't quite so invisible after all. Harry McCracken "returned to [PC World] only because IDG founder and chairman Pat McGovern and IDG President Bob Carrigan both assured him that he would have editorial autonomy over the content.”]
As a [...]
My giant MS Windows bluescreen photo in Times Square lives on
Back in November of 2004, I was walking down the streets of Manhattan when I saw the biggest blue screen I had ever seen in Times Square, so I recorded the moment with a blog post and a photo on my old InfoWorld blog. Back when I was at InfoWorld, this blog post would [...]
NAS for the home: how’s the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+?
After one of the busiest six-month periods of my life, I’m back to a little bit of home geeking. I’m on the verge of getting serious about massive storage for home and my research suggests that the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ is the NAS (network-attached storage) device of choice among geeks. You can buy the [...]