A couple days ago, Hong sent me an eCard announcing that Plaxo had the new holiday borders live on the Plaxo eCard site. Actually, he used my favorite new border, “snowflake”. Tiffany, Michael, and Martin did the design based on a template that Bill had suggested to me for the flowers border that he did. […]
Joseph sent me this article, in which the writer switches from Windows to a new MacBook Pro (the same one I own). In doing so, he found the easiest way to import his Outlook contacts into Mac OS X Address Book was just by using Plaxo! While he was being tongue-in-cheek, I noticed Derik DeLong […]
Digg pointed out this article which states: A committee of experts looked at all the possible excuses — biological differences in ability, hormonal influences, childrearing demands, and even differences in ambition — and found no good explanation for why women are being locked out [of science]. Umm, what about sexism? Or is that too obvious? […]
I had an argument today where a kid at work was spouting the near-complete repertoire of game console myths. Here is an annotated list of facts: Microsoft lost at least $4 billion on the original Xbox (not $2 billion as many claim). Microsoft has rather consistently sold just south of 2 million Xbox 360 units […]
Blake Robinson is the lone pro-Zune voice in the CrunchGear wilderness. (Probably because they weren’t bribed like the Gizmodo folks were.) When commenting about their new commercial, I wondered if he’s found any Zune love out there. He hasn’t. An interesting thing he mentions in passing: he leaves the WiFi off because of battery drain. […]
Drew showed me this nice trick to zero out a Plaxo account (something I need to do a lot because of testing). Simply go to Manage Folders, Create a new Contacts folder, and then delete the old one. Warning: I don’t know what happens when you sync down to your desktop client. My solution is […]
In an internal mailing list, a friend sent around these photos. Here is one: The interesting thing was back in February, Mark Jen sent those same shots to me and the graphics design department. I composed a reply, but never posted it. I guess I better do something about that. Very striking images! How did […]
Yesterday after a particularly nasty source code integration, Hong mentioned that we should celebrate with a little bit of soju. Discussions of soju led to him mentioning Japan’s version and then me mentioning that the Chinese have a version of their own: the most memorable being the infamous Moutai. Soju is often cut down with […]
An inspiring speech by Bill Moyers.
I received this e-mail today, from a Canon Digital Rebel XT owner: I shoot pictures mainly for my kids marching band. Which means I’m usually shooting at dusk or night. It also means I’m either in the stands on on the sidelines but still want good close-ups. What is a good (read affordable) lens for […]