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Pittsburgh is with an “h” except 1890 to 1911

Greg and I just finished the drive from CT to Pittsburgh to visit a customer. Greg just got one of those new handheld GPS devices (because Josh and I can’t keep this economy going on our own) so we decided to ignore the Yahoo map Greg had printed and listen to this new black plastic [...]

A little panda in the morning

I landed in Chicago about 5:30am and had some time to kill before my 9am flight. To stay away I wandered down to a food court, grabbing a newspaper and a yogurt, and sitting at an empty bar (O’brien’s for those who know the O’Hare food courts as well as me). After about 30 minutes [...]

I highly recommend not traveling with an expired license

Turns out my drivers license has expired. Not only that but it turns out those non-TSA airport employees (who always seem to be wearing burgundy?) actually look at expiration dates! I had to go back to American and get a different ticket, which had big bold letters SSSSSSS on it. I think this translates to [...]

Frugal with money that isn’t mine?

I do a pretty good job supporting Apple through the iTunes music store. A dollar, one quick click for instant music gratification just seems like a bargain — over and over again. I like to think between Apple and Amazon I am keeping the US economy strong. These colors don’t run and stuff like that. [...]

Bridging our way to access everywhere - a true killer app

Every so often you run into an application that makes you stop and go “wow.” (The “wow” is typically followed by a long pause for effect.) Google SMS is one of those applications.
Three things all came together for me:

It often feels like we are so close to having access to the internet everywhere and we [...]

May meeting of 106 Miles

I went to another 106 miles meeting last night. This time we had Brendon Wilson of PGP, Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo speak to facilitate discussion. The topic was engineers that had moved to Marketing or Products. The discussion opened up with a classically predictable question from an engineer: “so I am measured on how much [...]

Google’s demographic = me

Google lauched Google Answer last month.
What is the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Really though, are you surprised I tried that one? You shouldn’t be.

If you use Photoshop…

You will appreciate these:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/13MichaelLascarides.html
Undo. Yes, please, undo.

Shape the appearance

I’m trying to finish up some homework for class tomorrow and ran into this quote from the British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. He was being pestered by a supporter who wanted a noble title. Disraeli told him:
“You know I cannot give you a baronetcy, but you can tell your friends that I offered you one [...]

What To Do When Things Go Wrong

I went to a talk by Scott Berkum (ex-Microsoft employee) who recently wrote The Art of Project Management. The talk was entitled “What To Do When Things Go Wrong: Saving Design Train Wrecks” It was a bit of a trick because it wasn’t really focused on design train wrecks but was more focused on dealing [...]