Archive for February, 2006

NYC Day 2 (in brief)

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

Very late, will be brief:

Attended conference, not bad… Bad ass dinner at Mesa Grill Late-night snack with Robert Scoble Later-night chat with Scoble, Danny Sullivan from SEW and Matt Cutts of Google

Things seen:

Times Square Pastrami sandwich Cheesecake Rockefeller Center (briefly) 5th Avenue (parts) New york Public Library (in passing)

Some of the high points from my day in New York City

Monday, February 27th, 2006

So, I’m in NYC for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and we (myself and co-workers) took the oppurtunity afforded us by our early flight to do some touristy stuff. The first thing we did was hit the MOMA (it was only two blocks from our hotel) to see all the famous pretty pictures. Afterwards we […]

Chapel Hill Bloggers Meetup 2/23/2006

Friday, February 24th, 2006

Since Anton had to attend a public health lecture, I took over as group notetaker. Josh Staiger, myself, Roy Kim, Steve Cory and Brian Russell got together and talked about

tagging (Roy wondered if you could add heirarchy to tags) Google (and the programming languages they use) Google pages (which no one had tried yet) StikiPad photo galleries (Steve just […]

My brother is famous (not really)

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Love in the time of TiVo:

Mitch, a 23-year-old tech consultant whose favorites were “Lost,” “West Wing” and “Natalie Portman,” was desperately silly to find at least one of the women on his list by the end of the night. After winning a free TiVo box and lifetime service in a raffle, he yelled […]

BSG DVD ASAP

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

Holy crap, you can get the first part of Battlestar Galactica season 2 on DVD already?! Didn’t they show these episodes like two months ago? I can now watch BSG on Sci-Fi, then download the episode on iTunes, and then buy the DVD on Amazon within weeks of each other. Oh, I do so love […]

Too damn many

Monday, February 6th, 2006

I have too many accounts. I can’t keep track of them anymore. I sign-up and try virtually every online service I find. Particularly weblogs, email offerings and feed readers. Is there a self-help group for people who have 15 email addresses?

A sampling:

MySpace Facebook LiveJournal WordPress.com Tabulas TypePad GMail, Google Talk MyRealBox Hotmail, MSN IM Yahoo! Mail, IM, etc AOL IM, AIM Mail And more!

Update: In the […]