clock … watching time, the only true currency

Question: “Do you feel older?” Answer: “No, I feel bigger.” Must be fun to wake up to that feeling on your birthday. Family waffles for celebration at breakfast, and then a long day at the office for Dad.

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I didn’t plan to, but here I am watching the sun rise over San Francisco. Very quiet and still, clear and warm for a San Francisco morning, so it’s already a bright orange over downtown, even at 5:23am. Sun isn’t visible yet, but it will be soon. I should really go for a run instead [...]

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Clearing out the inbox of various links, as part of a Saturday night cleanup. No promised connection beyond the simple fact these caught my eye and were “worth” more than a del.icio.us link. British history timeline, via Infosthetics. There are so many things I want to improve about this blog. First and foremost would be [...]

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On Tuesday, when David announced 100 billion DNS queries for OpenDNS, the chart was enhanced with a dancing banana. Go ahead, click through and see. Back yet? Good. Now compare the dancing banana to Snappy, the dancing logo of the original Snap.com, shared here. (Thanks to David, Snappy loops continually now.) This is before Snap [...]

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And another year has passed. Kids happily re-gifted some of their presents to me, and cupcakes were enjoyed by all. I started the day in darkness with a mile run on the Kezar track, as I’ve done occasionally in past years. 5:23 left me convinced that I haven’t slowed down too much, although I can’t [...]

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At times, the head gets racing, and despite myself, I can’t sleep. I’ve been up for a bit over two hours already. Been a productive time, actually, but it’s going to make the rest of this day pretty tough… the boy wakes up in probably 10 minutes, so not much point in trying to go [...]

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Cleaning out the inbox, we find… A formula for procrastination is a headline that just catches the eye. Especially when you’re supposed to be doing something else! No mention of RSS in the entire story…doesn’t seem right. I suppose procrastination existed before the Internet. Optimus Prime iPod Dock would be the boy’s first choice for [...]

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I’ve seen the meme for a few weeks now. During the holiday week, Ken tagged me. So, five things about me you probably didn’t know. 1. Kaboom The Activision game Kaboom for the Atari 2600 was the first video game (there are only two) where I actually felt competitive. I scored 3,000 at one point, [...]

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Happy New Year, approximately one hour early. I spent the last week in Colorado, on Mountain Time, so I’ll use that as my excuse. Not that I’d be staying up to midnight anyway.

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Chad Dickerson asks “What was your first Amazon order?” So I went into Amazon, flipped back through my transaction history, and found two books I ordered on December 17, 1997. This is back when Amazon mostly sold books. The two books were The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea and [...]

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