Entries for week beginning February 14, 2010
➠ February 20, 2010
Debugging live issues in the Facebook platform. It’s what all the cool kids do an a Saturday night.
Posted to Twitter at 10:15 p.m.
➠ February 19, 2010
Installing some software by putting a CD in the drive and running an installer.
Apparently that’s what people had to do in the olde days.
Posted to Twitter at 9:38 p.m.
Super excited for dinner tonight at Opaque: http://sf.darkdining.com/
Posted to Twitter at 5:51 p.m.
➠ February 18, 2010
Today I ordered a salad for lunch.
Then only ate half, before getting the rest wrapped for later.
I DON’T KNOW WHO I AM ANY MORE!
Posted to Twitter at 3:36 p.m.
Watch Out for Hop-Ons
Arrested Development meets Peanuts.
Filed under
: arrested development
: peanuts
Buzz launch wasn't flawed, Google's intentions are
Really insightful post on what stinks so badly about Google Buzz. Slamming it into Gmail was just such an ugly, out-of-place, hacky move for market-share — no different than the approach that cluttered up the homepages of Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc.
Integrating translation into Google Goggles
This is a cool prototype — Take a photo of some forrin text, and Google’s servers can OCR and translate it to English. Potentially wicked handy tool for travelling.
➠ February 17, 2010
Begbie’s Law of Software Envelopment: All apps expand until @itsthecroz can use them to tell me I’m sitting on the @SlideInc live site lock.
Posted to Twitter at 7:49 p.m.
Buzz: The world’s easiest way to find out what your friends who work for Google are talking about.
And no-one else.
Posted to Twitter at 6:55 p.m.
Giving a short talk on Mar 2 at @IgniteBayArea about “Creatives”. You should come see me (and some other smart cookies): http://rdbgb.us/l6o
Posted to Twitter at 2:17 p.m.
Amused that people seem to think burglars check Twitter to find targets, rather than ringing the doorbell then jimmying open the back door.
Posted to Twitter at 2:14 p.m.
➠ February 16, 2010
If you have an iPhone, pay the $3 for http://www.popcap.com/games/iphone/pvz/
You won’t regret it.
Posted to Twitter at 3:11 p.m.
Used the phrase “full-on robot chubby” in a chat with co-worker.
Hoping they got the reference. If not, I’ll expect a visit from HR.
Posted to Twitter at 12:48 p.m.
➠ February 14, 2010
Reinstalling Snow Leopard from scratch on my laptop #happyvalentinesday
Posted to Twitter at 2:05 p.m.
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