Random Thoughts Archive

Palm 750 - I’ve been using it since October


Today I stumbled across the announcement of the new Palm Treo 750.
Back in October, I asked our mobile team here for a Windows Mobile phone to do some testing. Their response “oh, here’s one take it”. It was a Treo 750. While I love gadgets, I hadn’t read [...]

(Re)New Orleans


Photo from flickr: HammHawk
Last night the New Orleans Saints played their first home game since Hurricane Katrina in the newly remodeled Superdome. I think it is very important the world see that New Orleans is (slowly) coming alive.
I went to New Orleans over the Labor Day weekend this year; friends and I [...]

Heading to Syndicate NYC


I’m off to NYC for the Syndicate Conference. At December’s conference I gave a keynote, this time I’m happy to just be able to enjoy the conference as a participant. My colleagues Peggy White (GM of Y! Finance) and Chad Dickerson will be doing the speaking this time around. [...]

Overheard at work - big company moment


It’s rare that I hear overly dilbert-esque things at work, but just a few minutes ago, I walked by two people who were staring at a desktop PC’s tower which was laying sidewise on a desk and seemed to have some sort of mud on it (really).
I didn’t hear the question, but the [...]

Trusting a community to get it right


This weekend I travelled to Las Vegas on Southwest Airlines and I noticed a very simple principle at work. If you don’t know, SWA doesn’t have assigned seating. Instead, you get a letter (A, B or C) and they board everyone with A, then everyone with B and so on. Southwest [...]

Ugh! Comment Snafu - now fixed


So today I went into my WordPress control panel and discovered 11 comments (and 53 spam comments) sitting in my queue waiting for approval.
 I had WP set to email me when I got comments.  I got no email, so I just assumed you were all a quiet bunch. 
Turns out when I got upgraded to WP [...]

Speak up! Shall I be a curmudgeon?


So, it seems as though I’ve fallen into that blogging slump. This is the point in a blogs life where you’ll see a post (just like this one) that says “sorry I haven’t posted in a while I’ve been busy”.   That post is usually followed immediately by another one 6 months later saying “I guess [...]

The real story of Yahoo! Go


Last week at CES all the internet big guys had something to launch. MSFT & MTV are going after the music market, Google learned how to bundle software apps together and Yahoo announced Go.
While a lot of blogger attention was paid to those Mountain View guys, I think people missed [...]

Most exasperating moments of 2005


With the holidays I’m a bit behind in blogging, so this is probably the last “look back on 2005″ post out there.   When I look back at this 2005 I see a lot of great and memorable things that have happened in the world, the industry, at my company and for me.   But this post isn’t about [...]

Yahoo + del.cio.us


I’m really excited about the news that Josh Schacter and his del.icio.us service are now part of the Yahoo! family.
I know that we’ve been talking for a long time about how to work together, and I’m so glad that its come to fruition.
I personally believe that harnessing the power of [...]