Stocking Stuffers
posted about 1 month ago | 3 comments
It sure seems to be getting harder to stuff stockings. There are so many more variations on common products than there used to be! I used to get a toothbrush in my stocking. Now I need to know what kind of toothbrush each person prefers if I want ...
The Marin County Fair
posted over 3 years ago, updated 9 days later | 1 comment
I've been putting a lot of hours in at work lately, so when the 4th of July weekend came up I was determined to do something with my family. One of the guys at work mentioned that he was going to the Marin County Fair that weekend because Los Lobo...
I got a promotion!
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I'm getting a promotion effective tomorrow. I have to admit, I wasn't sure if I would ever get another one. In my field, both age and gender were working against me. I will pretty much be giving up being a techie, and I will miss that. I have alwa...
Language Lessons in 140 Characters or Less
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
When I first started using Skype's software for free Internet phone calls, I was puzzled to receive several calls from people I didn't know who lived in exotic places, couldn't speak English very well, and didn't se...
Fade From Black
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
Part living-in-a-big-city, part dark-colors-are-slimming, my closet contains a lot of black. Except as time goes by, a lot of them slowly become less and less black. I suppose when that happens I am supposed to go out and buy something new, but I ...
Green Tea
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I'm having green tea and peach yogurt for breakfast this morning. The current green tea fad makes me remember when I was first introduced to green tea in the early 1970s as an exchange student in Japan. I didn't care for it much at first. I rememb...
From Twittering Tweets to Tracking Packages
posted over 3 years ago, updated 34 minutes later | 1 comment
First, I'll try to explain what twittering is. Twitter.com is a social networking site. Its tag line is "What are you doing?" Kind of like the status field on Eons, Twitter lets you post messages (popularly called called "tweets") of up to 140 cha...
Bubble 2.0?
posted over 3 years ago | 0 comments
I just got home from the Web 2.0 Expo, a conference and trade show organized by O'Reilly, the publisher of all those technology books with the animals on the covers.
I spent about 4 hours roaming the Expo floor and a couple of things really stru...
I spent about 4 hours roaming the Expo floor and a couple of things really stru...
A little bit of Web 2.0
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 8 hours later | 0 comments
The O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference/Expo is in San Francisco this week. I'm hoping to go Thursday & Friday. There are also an incredible number of after hours events. One of the ones that sounds really interesting to me is Ignite. More info here:
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Pandora.com & discovering new music again
posted over 3 years ago, updated 32 minutes later | 0 comments
When I was young music was an important part of my life, starting with Top 40 in junior high and high school, discovering FM radio and "serious" music in college, MTV about the time my daughter was born, and classical music to varying degrees thro...
