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My first job was as a dish-washer at Chez Claude restaurant in Acton, Massachusetts. It was a family-owned French restaurant, and I wasn’t yet old enough to drive, so my parents had to drop me off at 4pm every Saturday and pick me up after we closed (usually around 11). I eventually graduated from washing…

Last night we announced a big upgrade to Blogger Following, something we’ve been working on for months. I’m excited about this for a lot of reasons – but before I get to them, I want to address a couple concerns people have expressed on Twitter and on their blogs. Concern #1: I lost followers! I’m…

Nearly two years ago to the day, I joined Twitter. I explained: I can recall at least a half dozen different explanations from people I respect who all explain Twitter in fundamentally different ways. And that, I now see, is part of its strength. It’s different things to different people: for some, it’s a way…

I had a blast last year serving as a mentor to TechStars, and oddly enough they’ve asked me back. If you’re a start-up looking for some seed capital, mentorship from some really remarkable entrepreneurs, tech execs and VCs, and wouldn’t mind spending a summer in either Boulder, CO or Boston, you need to submit an…

This is pretty cool (as originally seen in @CThilk’s shared items on Google Reader, which pointed to Neville Hobson’s cool coffee mug): Get your twitter mosaic here.

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 Darell Morey. In particular, Lewis was intrigued by the fact that the Rockets had orchestrated a big trade with the Memphis Grizzlies, and the central…

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 of my favorites. I changed the AdSense ad units a bit both to try and optimize their sizes as well as to modify the color…

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 wireless connection to access the Internet. My Mac is the only of those devices that consistently experiences incredibly aggravating problems maintaining its connection. Here’s what…

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 in the field” started a blog on the subject. This is really smart. When I was at UofR, I joined a couple ABA committees –…

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 have demonstrated he’s got a good outsider’s perspective on how Google approaches opportunities. He’s going to be at Google HQ next week, which should make…