Before and After
One of the many perks of the first day off work in months is tending to long-overdue life maintenance. Today I ran errands, cleaned the house, and got a haircut. Consider this post my little contribution to the most interesting Google image search ever. I feel like a new man already.
Thanks Steve
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, who dropped out of college after six months, gave a commencement speech at Stanford recently. Here are my two favorite bits:
Sometimes life’s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved [...]
It’s Alive!
After months of work and weeks of beta testing, The new Technorati is alive! Among the notable improvements are:
Totally revised design, identity, and user experience.
Powerful new search options!
Goodies for member profiles: Bios, blog descriptions, and people can search your blog right from your profile page! (Here’s mine.)
Duplicate removal and sidebar links in URL searching!
Top Searches [...]
Batman Begins
I had low expectations, but it really is that good.
I’ve excused so many plot holes, crap dialog, and spandex with the phrase, “well, it’s just a comic book movie,” I’d forgotten how comics, real comics, could be dark, emotionally intense, psychological affairs.
Batman Begins reminded me of what I loved about the old Frank [...]
The New New Thing
Seven months ago, when I told my friends and family that I’d taken a job at Technorati, they all had one thing to say to me.
Cool! But, um, what do they do?
These people weren’t rubes. My tribe are some geeky folks. Bigtime bloggers, hardcore nerds, and computer-enabled professionals all asked me this. And translated through [...]
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