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Analog blog 2

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I blame Merlin Mann of 43 folders. He’s the one who popularized Moleskines years ago.
How else can I explain that right after I wrote about my analog blog that Brian Moon pointed me to the very next xkcd about that. Which caused my friends to point out the sequel article:

Journal 2 by xkcd

Which gave me [...]

LEGOs of things past

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Scott Beale notes the 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick.
Burka asks, what is our preferred LEGO theme?
Does it show my age when I mention that pretty much the only theme available at the time was SPACE:

LEGO Space Shuttle (Model 442—1978)
Just so you know, the antenna in the back turns into a long range gauss gun. [...]

The open office

Friday, October 12th, 2007

See our open offices with free food, beer, and t-shirts at Lunch 2.0 today!
Photos of my workstation are like photos of “What’s in my bag”—they seem to draw a voyeur-like fascination just short of a shot of a pretty girl.
Well since we recently tore down the cubes, I finally set up my workstation. You can [...]

My wireless bill

Monday, August 20th, 2007

For those of you who asked after this appeared, my first AT&T wireless bill was only 66 pages long (33 double sided pages).
Thanks, Justine Ezarik, for reminding me that I’m still as unpopular as I was in high school.
Oh well, I better sign up for online billing.

The Steve and the Al would be happy.
[My iPhone [...]

Apple makes piracy “just work”

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

A conversation that never happened over iChat:
1: Hey, do you have a copy of the new iLife and iWork?
2: Yeah. How can I get it to you.
1: Let me get back to you…
1: Hey, my my iDisk has 10GB on it now, just put it there.

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Perfect Ringing (This iPhone)

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

At work today Mark Kater and Sarah were joking that I’ve been as sick as long as I’ve had my iPhone. I guess my iPhone has bad Feng Shui.
Then Mark mentioned that the song in the iPhone television commercials, gives him the classically Apple 38 seconds of “all is good in the world” before he [...]

A shure bet I’m getting this

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I read this today on iLounge.
Is there any question given this post and this one, that I’m getting one of these? (Where is the Amazon link…you bastards!)
I love the new Shure SE series. Get the SE-210’s in white or black , or splurge on mine.

Lunch moo-point-oh has arrived
Tagged, Financial District, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina [...]

The iPhone

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I was talking to Dru about that today. He said he’s not worried. “Apple says it’ll be fine as long as you go to a Cingular store and not Apple Store on the day of launch.”

Web 2.0 Lunch
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina AT-X PRO 16-50mm f/2.8 DX
1/640sec @ f/2.8, iso100, 16mm (24mm)

“Maybe in podunkville. [...]

Community prime

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

So Andrei gave me a great idea to share some of my Amazon prime lovin’ with my (trusted) friends.
Amazon Prime is $80 a year. For that subscription you get free two-day ordering, $4 next day air, and orders fulfilled so fast you can’t cancel them. However, there are only so many times you can free-two [...]

Back to Safari

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

(No, I haven’t tried Safari 3.0.)
At work yesterday we were talking about how slow Firefox has become. You’re chugging around, opening a few tabs and then, after a few hours, you notice that everything takes like a second to respond. Has anyone else noticed this? It’s also been crashier of late—to the point where I’m [...]