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Those who know me know how amazing my switch to a mac last year was. A 10 year thinkpad devotee, I reluctantly gave up on windows when I faced a 10 minute reboot. I haven’t looked back since – and despite a few minor quibbles, I’ve been very happy with the switch. Now it’s time…

Several years back, I had what seemed to me a good idea for a fun hack: fill my iPod. Here’s how it works: you find an MP3 file, you tag it at del.icio.us with the tag “ricksipod”. I used the feed from del.icio.us for that tag as the source feed for a new feed in…

Last month I was the commencement speaker at the University of Richmond School of Law’s commencement ceremony. I graduated in the class of ’96, and was honored to be invited back to address this year’s graduating class. The transcript of the speech is here, and the video of the speech is now available on YouTube:…

Just finished presenting at the Society for Marketing Professional Services San Francisco event, where I shared the stage with Maura Ginty from Autodesk and Heather Durham of The Durham Group. We were there to talk about social media, and we covered a number of interesting avenues. The audience was marketers for architecture and engineering firms,…

Here’s a cool hack: earlier today I created a two column Google Spreadsheet, and built a form front-end. One column is for location, the other column is the caption for that location. Using the Google Maps gadget for Google Spreadsheets, I was able to create a real-time map of the data in the spreadsheet. The…

A while back on Twitter, I invited @Blogger followers to share their favorite third party template designers, and promised a summary post on Blogger Buzz with pointers for our users. Responses were great – but unfortunately, they’re lost (for the time being, at least) while Twitter works on repairing its archival search. So I’m going…

A few days after I gave my commencement address, I got an e-mail from Ari Lapidus, one of the subscribers to my blog. His cousin, Sig Libowitz (a lawyer at Venable) had recently completed a film called The Response that he thought I’d like. We’ve since corresponded, and I’m hoping to bring a screening of the…

Earlier today we announced a new gadget that Blogger users can install on their blog: with one click, they get a search gadget that will search not only their blog, but other sites they’ve linked to, their blogroll, and the web. (Here’s TechCrunch’s post about it.) To call it “new” is actually a bit of…

No, I’m not leaving Google. (Far from it… working on Blogger is a blast.) Several months ago I set up a Google Group for people to join if they’re looking for a job; as recruiters and friends share job openings with me, I forward them to the list. There are 50+ members of the list,…

Catching up on some TV last night, I saw a reference to the Windows 7 Release Candidate. Visting the Microsft site, I saw that the download was an .ISO package – basically a pre-burned disk image intended to be a bootable DVD to facilitate the installation of Windows 7. And then it clicked: VMWare can…