an important trait to me has always been humility. i rarely like to blow my own horn. (this may explain my lack of natural ability to be a good sales guy.) on the other hand, when i do speak up about how well i am doing, it’s usually because it’s true
so [...]

same evening, two things happened in my home on two different pc:
on the mac, my wife downloaded all her pics from her iphone to her iphoto, and all of a sudden, the pic she took of me on her iphone is now showing up as my avatar in adium. adium. it’s not even [...]

two anecdotes about customer service from today:

one: at fedex’s issaquah facility, a line is forming for saturday pickup and shipment. there is only one person working the counters. that’s all good, but what happened next was hard to comprehend: instead of servicing the real life human customers lining up, the counter staff chose [...]

i’m no writer, but my work’s output is very similar to those of a writer: ideas, thoughts, and text. and so it is that i found this series by the uk guardian to be superbly interesting and relevant: they’ve interviewed and photographed alot of writer’s room where they produce their work, be it [...]

nice work google!

a curious diversification strategy for cnn.com. if you click on the shirt icosn next to some headlines on their front page, you get to buy a t-shirt with the headline printed. Why anyone would want to buy (let alone wear) a shirt that says “single dad choosing between food, gas” goes unexplained.
maybe cnn [...]

This week on the danger of cell phones: First NYT reports that neuroscientist and doctors saying that they’d rather no take the chance of microwave radiation right next to the brain, and use headset instead.

“I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not hold it to my ear.”

“I think the safe practice….is to [...]

I generally liked the current Wordpress theme I’m using, which is a free/opensource theme I picked up somewhere, but I’m seeing some bugs with it.
i’ll be looking for a new theme, or try to fix up the CSS myself. Please pardon the dust until then.

I can’t work at home, so I work at cafes. Two benefits: More social, and better coffee.
Here’s my compilation of places that I frequent (view post for map):
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Besides the above and the occasional Starbucks and Tully’s, I also hang out at these beautiful spaces:
Seattle Central Library

Bellevue Downtown Library

reading rss feeds is a great way to keep track of content from sites that you read often. to be sure, it has greatly exacerbated my information overload, but the news readers has provided an efficient tool for dealing with it. as i posted earlier, i’m an avid user of google reader. [...]