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The April Fool’s Day Joke That Almost Was…
Another oldie but goodie…
In 1997, “Erik Heels”:http://www.erikjheels.com/ and I created a fake law firm website (we were in the business of building law firm websites at the time). The firm we picked was that of “Russell and Tate”:http://www.parodylaw.com/www.russelltate.com/index.html, the two characters played by Tracy Morgan and Tim Meadows of SNL in a few fake-commercials aired [...]
The one where I punked the Vice President’s Chief of Staff
While in law school, I worked at The Nature Company at the Mall of America on breaks. The store manager, Kathy, was a fellow political junkie who just happened to have been formerly engaged to Tony. Tony was at the time Vice President Al Gore’s scheduler. I went to law school in Richmond, Virginia - [...]
Sardoodledom
Brilliant.
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
Drafting this new post in the WordPress 2.5, and I have to say that it’s the most impressive upgrade to date. Already a number of “minor” (no clue how much code it took) tweaks that make a big difference:
As soon as you start drafting the post, it auto-saves the post, updates the page to show [...]
Living green in California
Robin’s birthday is this weekend, and with the in-laws in town, it means we have babysitters. We’re going to do a quick trip up to Napa (it’s just an hour from our house) for a birthday dinner, a night sans kids, and a visit to a few wineries. Can’t wait.
The hotel is what is most [...]
Amazon Kindle
Can’t explain why, but lately I’m increasingly eager to buy a “Kindle”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/?tag=tins-20. Anyone have any experiences they care to share good/bad/otherwise? “Don”:http://www.donloeb.com/ is sure that the iPhone will be a great ebook experience, but I’m not so sure.
Eager to hear what you have to say…
Superdelegates site - KML now vastly improved
Wanted to call attention to a huge improvement over at “superdelegates.org”:http://www.superdelegates.org/. Bob Rose (an engineer at Google), with help from the ever-helpful Juliano Ravasi (developer of the original KMLExport extension for Mediawiki), has radically improved the “KML layer”:http://www.superdelegates.org/Special:KMLExport. Whereas the prior version gave little details other than the delegates name, the current version now includes [...]
Thoroughly enjoying The Book of Air and Shadows
I’m a few hundred pages into Michael Gruber’s The Book of Air and Shadows and am loving it. (It’s after midnight, I should be sleeping, yet I’m… not.) I think it was the presence of the word “cryptography” on the front cover (in an excerpted review from the Washington Post) that initially piqued my curiosity. [...]
TechStars - two weeks left to apply
A while back, “Brad Feld”:http://www.feld.com/ asked “Don”:http://www.donloeb.com/ and I to be mentors for “TechStars”:http://www.techstars.org/. (Don was a mentor last year as well.) The list of “mentors”:http://www.techstars.org/mentors/ is impressive (my participation notwithstanding!), and the overall program is a fantastic idea. In short: 10 startups get picked from among hundreds, receive seed funding, and get access to [...]
A belated Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Really wish I’d remembered “this promise”:http://www.erikjheels.com/?p=530 earlier today, so I could have tried to get Erik to dye his hair green. Damn.
(Lawyer that he is, he’ll claim that since I’m at Google now instead of FeedBurner, the bet’s off. But I’d argue that my continuity of employment is clear - I was even answering FeedBurner [...]
