Archive for June, 2006

Google and the Desktop

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

J was working on analyzing some of our website data warehouse statistics today on Excel.
M (sarcastically): What are you doing using Excel? You should totally be using Google Spreadsheet for that!

CA-50 and immigration ping

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

I‘m trying really hard to avoid blogging about politics, but I can’t pass up the opportunity to gloat a bit.
In light of the primary election results, I thought I’d ping two of my previous political threads: CA-50 is dead to me and Immigrants are the new gay.
Here is a quote taken from a discussion on [...]

10 years of the same old shit

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Crumpler has updated their website to celebrate their 10th anniversary.
They also added a quirky product: The 10th anniversary with this wierd embroidery on the inside:

A 2006 polemic

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

“Election 2006: For Whom the Bell Tolls”.
An excellent mix of righteous anger.

Best Digital Cameras

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

If you’ve read the photography sections of my blog, you know I’m a big fan of Mark Goldstei’s

Yosemite information

Sunday, June 4th, 2006

I was supposed to go to Yosemite today but had to cancel.
Based on discussions on flickr which reminded me about the rockslide in Yosemite blocking 140, I thought others would find this tip useful:
It is simply a must to subscribe to Yosemite Blog before your trip out there to supplement your trip. Besides some [...]

Water power and perpetual motion

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Someone at work sent around this link. He asked if it was “for real?”
Man, I was so tempted when I saw the Fox News link to engage in ad hominem. But let’s look at it.

I’m Bruce Langdon!

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Reading Dassi’s post about the new features in Plaxo’s member e-mails, I noticed something familiar in the corner.
Picture of me? Check. My birthdate? Check. Name of person? Bruce Langdon?
Well at least I’m not Dan Brown.