• A special girl is in town, so I’m getting “Hugs!” from her. Yay! This morning we listened to Here Comes a Special Boy by Freeze Pop. It is stuck in my head, and that’s just fine with me!

  • Google’s Gmail is pretty cool. In fact, I’m using it as my primary user interface for my personal mailbox right now. Now I’m trying to figure out how to make mailto: links result in a jump to the Gmail compose…

  • This is well worth reading. Something special is happing at Google, and with luck they will chart a new course that other companies can follow as they go public. Perhaps my employer, Tellme, will choose to follow such a course,…

  • I ran across Freezepop today as a result of reading a bit of Achewood. Two great cultural influences in one day! Yay for sickpuppies.

  • Why are people strange about powers of ten? If we had 8 fingers, would be be a really big deal when the car had 32769 miles on it? And what if I lost a finger, would I start getting excited…

  • Karl and I watched The Island of Dr. Moreau tonight. Luckily we were, uh, enhanced, by several beers, a white Russian, a screwdriver, and a glass of Kamikazes. The move sucked. But at least Karl uttered these memorable lines: “He’s…

  • A friend is on her way to Budapest, and I wrote some of this to her. I’m copying it down here so that I don’t lose it. I was in Budapest in the fall of 2000 on my way to…

  • This is the coolest keychain tool ever.

  • I currently live in California. It is not considered a “key battleground state” for the presidential election. Both parties have essentially conceded the electoral votes to Kerry. As long as Californians as a whole vote the way everyone expects them…

  • I had forgotten it was St. Patrick’s day until I checked my personal email and discovered mail from Michael Mullen giving last-minute notice of a Tempest show in the City. Karl and I headed up around 7 pm on the…