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Hanging a picture on the wall? The perennial question, “how high should it be”? Here’s the formula, handed down from the decorating gods: 60″ + height of the frame / 2 – distance between the top edge and the hook Supposedly works perfect, every time. Yes, this is a full service blog. Technorati Tags: decorating
I write a lot of emails and IMs with smileys 🙂 and big smileys 😀 in them. It’s very effective. But there’s one that keeps coming up for which for some reason there’s no correct emoticon, at least as far as I know… I need an emoticon to denote a funny question. Haven’t you had that need 🙂 ? I need an emoticon to denote a funny question. Haven’t you had that need ? 🙂 See the problem? Is there one that exists or do we have to create a new one 😕 Technorati Tags: funny
I’m trying something – organize a bloggie meetup when I am in Arizona the second week in Februray. Check it out and join me if you like! Technorati Tags: blog, blogbridge, democonference, meetup, phoenix
A company that was launched at the Demo conference (which i am going to this year) is deploying in North Dakota: > “A trial balloon will be launched in the next few weeks to test the idea, said Schafer, who left office in 2000 after eight years as governor.” (from Associated Press) It just struck me as funny. (People ask: how much time does it take you to do a post every day in your blog? This one took less than 100 seconds. Would have been less if not for this parenthesized meta-joke.) Technorati Tags: democonference
Wikipedia appears to have banned all contributions and edits coming from the US Congress! > “I am opening this RFC in order to centralise discussion concerning actions to be taken against US Congressional staffers who repeatedly revert wars, blank content, engage in libelous behaviour, violate WP:N...
Read more →Here’s an interesting article in today’s New York Times about how to get travel information in your your home page, like My Yaho...
Read more →Inspired by Geek Dinners popping up all over, we thought it might be fun to try it here. Who is “we”? Adam Green, who writes Darwinian Web, and yours truly who writes this Blog and also runs the [BlogBr...
Read more →This is pretty mundane, but if you happen to be looking for a lamp, this is the most comprehensive collection that I’ve seen on the web, on a nice site, and with reasonable prices too! It’s called LAMPS PLUS. And I don’t mean L.A.M.P, I really mean, just lamps 🙂 Technorati Tags: lamps
So we’ve all heard about Facebook but only the ones of us who have a .edu email address can get an account. This was a source of envy for me. Nose pressed against the glass, I wanted to get inside to see what was going on. But of course I graduated college and so, how to get a .edu address? Simple. Just call your College’s Alumni department and generally they will be glad to issue you a .edu email address with which you can (legitimately) become a Facebook member. Yes, its for college students and alumni too! Technorati Tags: facebook
When you’re a blogger it’s sometimes a strain to say something new about a topic that’s gone around and around. I am pretty sure you’ve seen the announcement from Apple that their [next generation of Macintosh computers will use Inte...
Read more →I met Cecily Sommers at the Pop!Tech conference earlier this year. She heads up a new conference that I had read about previously, called Push. According to what I’d read, it was what Ted was 10 years ago or Pop!Tech was 2 years ago. Here’s a pretty ...
Read more →Over on the BlogBridge blog, I posted information about the panel that I will be participating on, plus a copy of my presentation and a bunch of relevant links. Link. Technorati Tags: blog, blogbridge, bloglines
Amusingly, several posts on the wonders of Tylenol. Here’s when we really run out of things to write about… Still, it’s an op...
Read more →Heard a lot about Ruby? Ruby on Rails? Wonder what the heck it is? Here’s a good intro. > “This is not yet another “Ruby is better than Java” article. Nor is it intended to bash Java or Java programmers. Rather, it is an attempt to aid Java programmers who are investigating Ruby by helping them quickly get over the “Writing Java in Ruby” syndrome and to discover the Ruby Way.” (from “10 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know about Ruby”) Technorati Tags: ruby
No, just kidding, I am not. Some of my best friends are headhunters and I wouldn’t want to compete with them. But I do often find out about people in my network who are looking for new positions and I try to connect them to those I know who are looking for new people. Recently another person emailed me saying they were looking for someone, and I realized that I might have lost track of what openings I know about. So – to those of you who know me personally – if you are hiring, feel free to send me an email so I can keep an eye out and connect you to candidates. No, I don’t charge a fee 🙂 Technorati Tags: jobs
A little while ago there was a lot of press about how Google and Sun were forming a partnership. In Sun’s blurb about this they said: “As part of the agreement, Sun now includes the Google Toolbar as an option in dow...
Read more →I recently had occasion to learn all about a really cool MMORPG (“massively multi player online role playing game”) called Gaia Online. Yes, I am not in its demographic, but it was fascinating to learn about how the world of ...
Read more →Guy Kawasaki writes a nice little bit about VCs (some of my best friends are VCs) and about entrepreneurs. It rings very true to me. Here’s some of what he says: > “Venture capitalists are simple people: we’ve either decided to invest, and we are convincing ourselves that our gut is right (aka, “du...
Read more →I know that this blog (Power Line) is pretty hard-core conservative, but I found their analysis of the legal questions around the NSA electronic intercept program fairly convincing. > “The only constitutional limitation on the President’s p...
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