For giggles, let’s repeat what I did almost exactly a year ago and take a look back at my online activity from a year ago and make a snapshot for future reference.
top post of the year – Is this the new Obama phone? was the top post of the year, mostly because of traffic early [...]
This post is for my own notes – a bunch of stats about traffic on the blog and the social networks to serve as a reference point for next year.
top post of the year – Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is 26 consistently did well because of it’s high search results ranking. Coming up second was a [...]
Ugh. In the middle of moving files around on my home Windows PC the filesystem was corrupted and I lost access to my files. I knew the files were there but the the few configuration files that Windows XP needed to give me rights to my folder were kaput and because I was the administrator [...]
What happens when you get more screen real estate by adding a 24″ second monitor? You fill it up. This has got to be a record.
9 IM windows active (5 people from Yahoo, 4 from outside)
9 Firefox tabs (one playing sound off of a video)
6 Outlook windows (1 calendar appointment, 4 half-written emails, 1 reminder)
1 [...]
After a breathless day at the office with multiple IM windows open, twitter updates pinging away in my snitter window and heavy discussions on internal email lists, I retreated to a dinner party with my suburban neighbors to unwind from the week’s events. My mind was bubbling over with thoughts from the day’s news and [...]
As we slide into the World Series we remember Five Ballpark Promotion schemes that went wrong. Includes gems such as the Cleveland Indians 10-cent beer night
Management forgot one small detail: drunk people get restless. More than 25,000 fans showed up for the event, most of them already tipsy at the gate. Among the more tame [...]
Photo by Todd Sampson
Our first trip on Todd’s sailboat out beyond the Golden Gate was very relaxing. There was pretty much no wind so we ended up motoring almost the entire 90 miles out and back to the Farallon Islands. Not that I mind – I was a bit nervous having never ventured out in [...]
