Year: 2009
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Drinking from the data firehose
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A couple years ago, Michael Lewis visited Google to talk about his new book The Blind Side. At 50:59, Lewis started talking about the Houston Rockets, and their then-new GM…
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Updated the site design
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A somewhat-overdue update to the site template. I swapped out the clipart image in the title bar for an image I took at Yosemite in 2007 – it remains one…
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Do I need a new router?
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I have a D-Link DIR-625 router with the most recent firmware. We have more than a dozen devices connected to the router, at least five of which routinely use the…
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National Security law blog
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Look at that: Matt Dahl, a 3L from my alma mater (University of Richmond School of Law) who is “not an expert in national security law but wants to work…
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What would Google do?
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I’m looking forward to reading Jeff Jarvis’s new book, What Would Google Do? I’ve enjoyed meeting Jeff at a few conferences, and the excerpts he’s been posting on his site…
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25 Things About Me…
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I finally succumbed and wrote up my “25 things” note in Facebook. Seemed like a few of you might enjoy the list (and by enjoy, obviously I mean ridicule me…
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Blogger and the DMCA
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Lots of posts this week about claims that Blogger is removing blog posts without giving users any notice. From LA Weekly: Google, the bloggers believe, has quietly changed the methods…
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Get Motivated!
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For $19, you can take your entire office to this seminar: Rudy Giuliani (America’s Mayor!) Colin Powell (Legendary soldier/statesman!) Zig Ziglar (America’s #1 Motivator!) Steve Forbes (President/CEO of Forbes) Dr.…
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It’s a Nerd’s World: Crashed FeedBurner?
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Hanging out on the couch today, a show on in the background had an ad for G4 TechTV. I was working on the computer, and only vaguely heard the song…
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When I started using the Internet
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I have two early Internet memories: first, reading James Berardinelli's movie reviews on rec.arts.movie-reviews. (Amazingly, James is still going strong on his own website, at http://www.reelviews.net/.) The other memory is…