First day
Today was my first day at Google, and I'm having nearly as hard a time saying anything coherent about it...
Items: Geeky anniversaries
Last Thursday was the tenth anniversary of the announcement of "Netscape network navigator" from "Mosaic Communications Corporation." It was a...
Last day
Yesterday was my last day at Macromedia. I've been wanting to write something about it, but haven't quite put the...
Double submission milestone
As of sometime in the past week (or maybe sometime in the next week; these things are a little vague),...
Spam report
I just noticed that it happened to have been almost precisely one week since I last cleaned out my junk...
Tolkien 2005
Turns out 2005 is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Return of the King. The Tolkien Society website says:...
Backlinks and referrer logs
When you follow a link on the web, your browser sends a request (for a particular web page) to the...
Interactive election map
The New York Times provides an interactive map that lets you see which states are, according to the Times, leaning...
Another gender guesser
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,...
Borges and Seuss
In response to my previous entry, Alan pointed me to The Sideshow, where the Original Ratbastards—Alan, Barth, Kristin, and Barzak—review...
Short fiction reviews
About a year ago, Jim Van Pelt started a topic at the Rumor Mill to discuss and point to reviews...
Legal names
Interesting New York Times article about the Danish name registry. Turns out there are only 7000 officially approved names for...