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Dec 2005 ... tagging comment

Finding out...about

I hit the links this morning when I should have gone golfing. That rain we had has let up and my roofers are up top shingling away. Anyway, I came across a statement I thought I'd share on a widely Dugg article about Google and a recent whoopsie it had with personalized homepages, "Google scrambles to restore deleted homepages."

The part I want to share has really nothing to do with the story. It's the editor's note that followed: "Editor's Note - This story is a perfect example of how we learn about new features in software and technology during our workday. We've always seen the personalized homepage option inside of Google, but never bothered to play around with it until we started writing this story. We made a brand spanking new Google page in about 3 minutes, complete with Tom's Hardware Guide, Engadget and Digg feeds. We also included a Gmail feed."
Labels: findingout, google, techadoption, techmeme


Enjoy yourself


Dear Jerome,

As Grandpa G always said First, "enjoy yourself, it's later than you think" Second, "Health, good health is wealth." I feel this year has been prosperous for us all!

I love your ideas for your kitchen and how you have followed through with your ideas.

Happy Easter, son, much love,

Labels: april07, easter, kitchen, mom, note

When's the next rocket out of this dump?

Sweet. I'm packing my bags. X marks the spot.

Memories of Youth

I had a bunch of Griffey cards. I think I have that Upper Deck one. Jason's comments remind me of a ton of things from my youth that influenced my eye for design. (And a ton of things that led my professional career away from it.) I'll post some images at some point.


I may read this book.

I heard about this book, oh, a couple three weeks ago. I put it on my back burner and it has since stewed itself into what seems to be a tasty little morsel. I may even buy the ebook.

RSS to the rescue!

I love RSS since syndication is the shiznit. My father-in-law loves to get his news straight from Italian and Spanish sources, and when he's home he's got his bookmarks, but when he wanted to get his daily fix at our house, he spent too much time hunting for the sites. (He doesn't know about delicious...) Anyway, I tried to tell him about feeds and feed readers, but as soon as I started, I realized my defining vocabularly was too technical. I may as well have been speaking Greek, although he might have understood that!

So I was glad to see this today.... 

I think the production value could have been better (have you seen those UPS ads?!) but beggars can't be choosers. I'll stick this in front of him then get him onto Google Reader.
Labels: demo, rss, video


Yet people still claim it's a dumb idea...

Kinda like blogging is when it first "came out." Twitter rocks and these guys figured it out. They got something up and out there that people are using. People are using it in ways no one thought of - so it can't be so dumb after all.

New York's Grand Central 100 years ago...nearly

Kottke pointed this one out. Shorpy is a great site. Gotta dig into it more often...

Range Hood 60% done

Last week Nicole contacted Sam Ostroff of Salmon Studios to finish off our hood's ducting. Sam happens to live up the street from us and works adjacent to the Stone Soup Concrete guys. Very convenient! Here's where we are so far...Sam will enclose the ductwork and match the JennAir chimney style ductwork. Labels: custom_ductwork, salmonstudios, samostroff


Mobile Web coming to a tiny screen near you...June 1?

Well, with the carriers sitting in the way of getting cell phone users on the web (overpriced data plans, horrible navigation, horrible terms for small innovators trying to get services on the decks, etc.) Apple will be the first company to make a grab at a healthy percentage of those 223 million cellphone toters in the USA. Google and Yahoo won't be far behind with their own spin on services (linked to a specific device or not). Microsoft...well, they've got the Zune. Give them some time they'll have a Zune phone, I guess. Harder to say with them.

Google gets most of this recent NYTimes piece:


Chat enabled spreadsheets...new cubicle standard

Now if only it was massage enabled...

That's the end of it

M walks into the kitchen: "Dad, I've got an ant. I squashed him. Here."
Hands me a building block. A flattened ant is attached.
Flicking the carcass off the block, I hand the block back. "Looks like you got him."
Taking the block, "Yeah. He was trying to get up on my blocks. I guess that will be the end of it."
She promptly turned and went back to playing blocks.
Labels: blocks, blog, ends


Presentations coming this summer to google

Official Google Blog: We're expecting

This was nice to hear. And from Sam Schillace too. Mr. Writely! I've always wanted a simpler presentation application. When you have to take a class or spend 8 hours a day with software to get great results day-in and day-out, something's wrong.

I hope they keep it simple. Don't you?

I'd be amazed if Google could hire hackers who've not been influenced by 37signals. Simple is the new way to get things done. Especially on the web.


Kenny Outgunned

Erin, remarking on Kenny's Xmas gift pack that arrived in the mail for her:

"Kenny, you gave me the best gifts you can give on Christmas: laughter and warmth. Laughter because your shit was funny. And warmth because I burned everything."
Labels: erin, gift, kenny, xmas


Random colors and playthings

Aren't these eggs nice? The camera actually got the colors right. On a different topic, but still as colorful: Maddy got her Homestarrunner figure set. Gramma was on hand for the initial playfest. They all accompanied us to dinner. Except Strongbad, who got left behind. He was working on some email... Labels: eggs, figures, homestar, strongbad, toys

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