I was reading about vdash and inside the presentation, I found this interesting quote: “We are not scanning all those books to be read by people,” explained one of my hosts after my talk (at Google). “We are scanning them…
Compare The Candidates is a nifty web app that I found when looking into AppSpot, a Google cloud computing thingie. It shows a new style of design that rose in the last few years. I really admire it, and I…
I am looking forward to Curtis’ 512 words. If he sucks and doesn’t do it often enough, I’ll do them myself here on this site and embarrass him. How’s that for a helpful, encouraging friend? 🙂 Curtis’ adventure to take…
Here’s a tiny blurb about life in my new environment: Tesco is down the street. They are the UK’s largest supermarket chain, think Safeway in the US. Generic, filled with irritating British mothers and their unruly children, with prepared food…
Since I am getting back to tech life, a good first post would be about tech. What caused the big downtime was a not-very-careful switch from a friend’s Linux server to DreamHost. I switched because I am too old, too…
After an extended downtime due to lack of give-a-shit on my part, my blog is back, and I am back to blogging. Expect something here daily, which is my goal. Lots and lots of news… where to start? I suppose…
Hello everybody, and happy new years. 2008 is going to be really great for me, I have some news to share here to get all those who are interested in my travels back up to date with my life and…
I was looking for something else and ran across this somewhat ridiculous part of LinkedIn’s web site: Allen, J. This is why in every place my name is used publicly, especially related to work, that I am very careful to…
This is the next Internet meme, ladies and gentlemen… and just remember you heard about it here first. This is from the group that my friend Curtis Chen belongs to, the The Richter Scales.
Today I had the afternoon free so I went to Atomium. Here are the pictures I made there.