clock … watching time, the only true currency

Spent the evening at the Technorati Developer Salon, among the alpha-geeks and A-listers. A bunch of people who in the blogosphere can go by their first name, although there are a few contenders for some of the names. Still, Dave, Doc, Jeremy, Marc, and several others, like Tantek. Sometimes it’s strange to put a face [...]

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Had a series of quick calls with Verio this morning about the hosting of this domain, and I ended up agreeing to them moving the site from the original Best Internet servers to Verio servers. I thought this had been done years ago, since NTT/Verio bought Best some time ago, but apparently not. The company’s [...]

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Just like the last time I read Dick Francis, I flew through Wild Horses this weekend. I needed a quick, fun read, and that’s what I got. Francis didn’t leave horses out of the picture in any of his mysteries, and Wild Horses is no exception. He employs a racing film set in the heart [...]

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I pushed the boy in the jogging stroller through this morning’s Bay to Breakers. Twenty-five minutes to cross the starting line, and not much fast about the rest of the “race,” either. But that’s eight years straight running Bay to Breakers, and a T-shirt for the boy (after an exceedingly long line in the Polo [...]

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Earlier this week, I finished The Confusion, the second volume in Neal Stephenson’s The Baroque Cycle. I read Quicksilver in November 2003; I’m eager for volume three, The System of the World, promised for September of this year. I love a complex read which still, well, reads well. Powerful ideas, intricate plotting, myriad characters, historical [...]

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Mark Pilgrim weighs in on MovableType and WordPress. He’s switched the 11 sites he operates over to WordPress for clear reasons he explains in the piece above. He puts his money where his mouth is: he donated the $535 he would have owed MovableType to move to MT 3.0 to the WordPress developers. I respect [...]

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I’m using WordPress for my work blog. With my frustrations over Radio several weeks ago (subsided, but I don’t know why), I continue to consider moving clock to WordPress. I don’t look forward to the conversion, or the data migration, but some command line work and data manipulation would be good exercises for me. Lauren [...]

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About a week ago, thanks to Ian Holsman, I set up a Gmail account. While the last thing I need is another e-mail account, I was as curious as everyone else. To test the account, I’m publishing, in text, the email address: john.roberts@gmail.com Not that it would be so hard to figure out my work [...]

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Jon Gruber explains how to write for Google. More than just search-engine optimization (SEO) blather, Gruber points out how a very tightly focused page can be the answer to a very focused question… and Google aggregates questions.

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Steve Yelvington writes a quick report on Washington Post VP Chris Schroeder’s speech at the E & P Interactive, where Schroeder worried about “the perfect storm of the Internet,” as it affects media companies. The storm is made up of aggregator competitors, and the disaggregation of services to best-of-breed offerings. For an example of the [...]

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