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Where do they find all the time?

Posted on: Sunday, April 27th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

I ran into this link in one of my coworkers’ GTalk status messages (A surprising amount of communication at Google happens through this channel).
It’s actually something I was muttering to Linda about the other day. I really need to cut back on my television watching — not so much on the first-run stuff (Hey, […]

Never gonna give you up!

Posted on: Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 in: Misc

Rick Astley is making a comeback.
So far, more than 13 million people have been tricked into watching Astley, propelling the singer to heights of celebrity he surely thought had passed him by. Riding the wave, his record company are now releasing a greatest hits collection amid talk of a UK tour
As one of my coworkers […]

Niles Secret Sidewalk

Posted on: Saturday, April 12th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

So, now that I’m actually spending a bit of time with my blog (in addition to all the time I’m spending at work), I’m trying to buckle down on the whole Adwords/Analytics thing and pay attention to what’s going on.
As I said the other day, it appears that merely mentioning that you’ve got a good […]

Shout-out to Burbed

Posted on: Saturday, April 12th, 2008 in: Uncategorized

I’m a renter. I’ve been a renter during the 10 years I’ve lived in the bay area, and while I probably should’ve spent some of my hard-earned cash on one of those “amazingly expensive” $300k townhouses back in 1999, it looks like it may still be a good time to rent.
Anyway, I pretty regularly […]

Tibet and Torches

Posted on: Thursday, April 10th, 2008 in: Misc

Tibet, to me, has almost always been a dimly-known place. It’s not like my high school education spent much time talking about (or India, or modern China, or much about the Soviet Union, whose wall was falling at the time). I’ve read “7 years in Tibet”, of course, and I’m pretty sure I […]

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