I tried Google Reader out when it was first released, but didn’t like it at all. This week they released a completely reworked version, and its got a ton of promise! My longtime wish has always been to have an RSS reader that worked more like gmail, … Read More →
Tag Archives: geek
Snacksby
The award for Co-worker Most Likely to Get Bought Out By Google currently belongs to Soma, who recently released a very cool application called Snacksby. You tell it what you have in your pantry, it tells you what you can make with it. Its a cool site, … Read More →
How far I have come..
There are times in my job when I feel like I know nothing about computers. When my business and graphics background betrays me and I have to seek help from someone who actually studied this. But then there are days like today, when I spend my day maintaining an … Read More →
Google Analytics
After waiting patiently for several months, I finally received my Google Analytics invitation code yesterday. There’s a 24-hour lag in the reporting, so I don’t have all that much traffic to look at yet, but what I see so far is cool! This goes way beyond the basic stuff … Read More →
Upgrading…
Dear Internets - I’m upgrading my site from MovableType 3.1 to 3.2 today. Hopefully this does absolutely nothing to my site from your perspective, but you never know. If you see anything wonky, please drop me a comment or an email and let me know what … Read More →
Simple Tracking
Every Christmas I find myself in the same predicament — trying to ship my holiday presents ahead of me so that I can wrap them when I arrive. Currently I’m watching three different shipments from various origins as they wing their way to Dallas (hopefully in time for Christmas). Today … Read More →
Rocket Surgeons and Brain Scientists
In the more than three years I’ve worked at my current job, this is the first time I’ve managed to get my hands on a picture of all of the members of my team. At our most recent all-hands my team got an award for generally … Read More →
In pursuit of the iPod Nano
So my office has recently introduced yet another employee contest. They’ve begun to do a good job of dangling appropriately selected carrots in front of us, and this month’s contest is no exception: the iPod Nano! My part in all of this is that I put little … Read More →
Yahoo acquires Flickr
The announcement went out last night that Yahoo has agreed to acquire Flickr. I’m a little blah about the whole thing — I wanted Google to acquire Flickr, integrate it with Picasa, and continue their pursuit of global domination. Oh well. At least all of our accounts will get … Read More →
Gmail
I have a gazillion Gmail invites to give out.. Does anyone want one? Post a comment and I’ll send an invite to the email address you specify in the field labeled “Email Address:” Don’t put your email address in the “Comments:” section ’cause I don’t encode that sucker … Read More →
You couldn’t hear it, but the internet just got WAY bigger.
In the subtle-but-important department, this week the internet observed a small milestone. To understand it, one must know a little bit about domains. Domains are those names you type in the address bar at the top of your browser window, after the http and ending with something … Read More →