Month: November 2004

Poking around Amazon.com today, and saw this laptop desk by Kensington, which looks like a must-have for my home office. It holds your laptop, lets you flip the screen up so it serves as an eye-level monitor, while letting you attach a full-sized keyboard, mouse, etc. And it also has a built-in USB hub, which…

I tried not to like CNN’s Your Command site, where they show various commercials of the anchors poking fun at themselves, include outtakes of the commercials, and interviews with the anchors about their jobs. But you know what? They’re really good.

If you had a blog, and you posted a doctrine on it, and among the many proclomations was this: 2. Be a human being. JoinCross is a place for us to be ourselves, to share who we are, and for us to learn who our customers are. Don’t you think it would be a little…

Exciting news at Socialtext: we’ve been named to the EContent 100 as one of the 100 companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Congrats to the team for a nice recognition of what we’re doing, and many thanks to the customers who make it possible to continue innovating in an important space.

Two comments in the past week prove that my readers are far more clever than I: Commenting on Barack’s Letterman appearance, “az” notes that Paul is still the master when it comes to inside jokes on muscial references. In response to my caption contest last week, “OneMan” in one line manages to both indirectly reference…

Wow. Lafayette faces last year’s I-AA champ Delaware this afternoon in the first round of the I-AA playoffs. Very exciting. (TiVo owners: click here to record the broadcast.) It’s Lafayette’s first trip to the playoffs, and they were picked to come in 5th in the league (they won). Bonus: a program on the Lafayette/Lehigh legacy…

Here’s a snippet, but you should read the whole article to get a better sense of her argument: The struggle to be Democratic National Committee chair is round one of the battle for the soul of the party. The obvious choice is Howard Dean, who has the clarity of conviction and the passion that voters…

Lynn Sweet gets the answer that none of the rest of us could (and why should we? We’re just constituents.): “Rep. Judy Biggert did not take a position or speak in the caucus because she is a member of the ethics panel and will have to deal with the pending complaint.” For background, see here…

Taped last night, airs Friday night. I hear Barack did quite well. TiVo owners: click here to schedule it on your TiVo. Interestingly, Barack was on Imus yesterday. And while I’m on the Barack update, So-Called Austin Mayor points out that in a survey of Boston voters, Barack recently came in tied for second in…

OK, been a while since we did one of these. Please take a look at the following picture of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and leave your best caption in the comments: (I just know you can do better than the following “official” caption: US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld looks around the room full…