Archive for July, 2005
Heading out…
We hit the road for the east coast in the morning, visiting my parents in Avalon, New Jersey (on the shore). Can’t wait, I hear the water’s warm and it promises to be sunny almost the entire week.
No blogging until I’m back. Something tells me you’ll manage.
I hear China’s a pretty big country
…Which would make our latest announcement kind of big.
Treo updater
Wow — just updated my Treo with the updater for my Cingular Treo 650 and the results are pretty incredible. Available memory on the phone went from 4 megabytes to over 10 megabytes, thanks to the changes in the Palm file system). What does that mean? In the old filesystem, files took up a […]
One month to go
It started harmlessly enough: giving a speech in front of a room of 400 attendees, my tongue hit my teeth just right. Though I’d had braces as a teen, my teeth had spent the last ten years on an inexorable march towards overbite, overcrowding and, well, chaos.
Of my front four teeth on the bottom, one […]
Giving the OPML editor a try
I’m playing with Dave Winer’s OPML editor over here. That space will be a scratch pad to experiment a bit, I’ll write up my observations here once I’ve figured it all out.
Congrats to Dave on hitting this milestone.
Analysts rag on Costco
Kos points out the incredible commentary from a Deutsche Bank analyst in a recent New York Times article re: Costco and its treatment of its employees: Wow. How do these Wall Street analysts sleep at night? Costco’s average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam’s […]
The Donut Guy, Trust and Freakonomics
Two years ago, I pointed to a Britt Blaser post (which linked to Roland, who was linking to the source, Jason Kottke, whew!) about a donut vendor in NYC who put his customers on the honor system, and in the process doubled his customers per minute (as compared to other, similar donut vendors).
Having recently read […]
Experience with NextAlarm?
Wondering whether anyone out there has experience using NextAlarm? They can redirect your ADT or Brink’s alarm hardware to their service center, and provide Internet-based monitoring of your alarm. They’ll e-mail alerts, provide online account access (two things that ADT doesn’t do) and they’re far less expensive than ADT. I’m pretty impressed so far in […]
Local Podcasting Stars
Wow, congratulations is right. Mike points out that our local friends are hitting the big time: Congratulations are in order to Naperville podcasting superstars, Kris (“with a K”) and Betsy Smith of Croncast. They were mentioned in the New York Times today as one of the best podcasts to listen to and definitely […]
Stay off the river, DMB is coming to town
Zorn takes issue with this the Dave Matthews Band flushing its past down the, well, read on… “Chicago Forgives Dave Matthews -– Dave Matthews Band Fans and Survivors of Last Year’s Incident Celebrate the Return of the band to Chicago” is slated for Friday morning, 7-10 a.m., at the Wendella dock on the […]
