Category: General

I love this kinda stuff. Las Vegas-based Redux Beverages recently rolled out their marketing campaign for the new energy drink Cocaine. It compares in calories to Red Bull (only 70 vs. Red Bull’s 80) but weighs in with 350 percent more caffeine (280 mg, about the same as four espresso shots). The drink also boasts […]

From the G-Men: Today we’re launching the Google Blog Search Pinging Service, which is a way for individual bloggers and blog platform providers to inform us of content changes. Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We’ll continue to monitor other pinging […]

I always screw up timezones. Usually the night before a call I wake up in the middle of a panic attack and rush to the computer to triple check the timezones for the next day’s call. With the launch of Blogwild!, I experimented with letting people put a reminder to buy my book on their […]

Geeks everywhere are fainting as the meta-meta-world collapses on itself. What’s the appeal of Steve Wozniak? And Woz responds in the thread.

Mark Stosberg write: As an internet professional, I use e-mail constantly. Mutt, a popular e-mail client for command line geeks had been wearing on me. I found Thunderbird 1.5 a capable replacement for my needs, and have since cut the average size of my Inbox in half. Here are five tips I use to get […]

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From the world of systems design and usability comes the principal of least astonishment – or I’ve also heard it called the principle of least surprise. When two elements of an interface conflict or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be that which will least surprise the human user or programmer at the time the conflict […]

I think it is healthy that the CIA has a bit of humor in the It’s not all James Bond flavor in their online personality test. I sometimes entertain using my talents in a government capacity but worry that my views on things might be considered a liability.

Huge kudos to Sharon for her recent media blitz and a great article from Penelope Trunk: ‘Consider a virtual company to get a flexible work life.’

Read the article in Wired this month about Google’s massive data centers. Muse that we started with mainframes as super processing centers networked to dumb terminals, then microchip manufacturing got cheaper/faster and we had smart terminals connected to a ‘dumb’ network (the internet, ‘dumb’ because it is an open, failure-friendly protocol) and now we are […]