berkeley
The MyBlogLog earthquake
This has undoubtedly been a tough week for MyBlogLog, but it’s standup posts like these that make me proud to work so closely with these guys. Nice job, Eric (and great job to Todd, Steve, and John for implementing real fixes while deflecting lots of criticism).
And Caterina puts the whole thing [...]
MyBlogLog is hiring: work for Yahoo! in Berkeley
The MyBlogLog team is settling into their cozy space in the Berkeley office (home of Yahoo! Research Berkeley) and we’re now starting to build out the team (if you didn’t already know, MyBlogLog is a recent acquisition that we’re really excited about at Yahoo!)
You probably know that there are a few thousand people down at [...]
Voting is too hard / Berkeley ballot silliness
I signed up for an absentee ballot and set aside some time this morning to do some research and fill out the ballot so I could get it in the mail today. It took a really long time to figure out my votes. The issues are pretty complex in some cases, especially when [...]
The Y2K that wasn’t
For reasons I would rather not go into (hint: my idea of Friday night entertainment is tending towards the geriatric and my girlfriend was in Milwaukee hanging out with famous movie directors anyway), I decided that tonight was going to be the night that I sorted through my stack of old VHS tapes with the [...]
Berkeley-area doctors map mashup
I was sorting through some old papers and found one of those thick health care provider directories that you used to get when you started a new job with new health insurance. While most providers disseminate that information online now, the display of the information is often close to useless — you run [...]
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 [...]