Being Electrocuted
November 18, 2008
NYC
Went to New York for a few days last week in support of the Sanrio Luxe store grand opening. Brigitta was the project manager on this new concept store, and was getting all kinds of props from the people I talked to.
I worked from the NYC Google office for a few days, and at night we putzed around the city. We spent time in Central Park, Chelsea, the Village, Soho, and various other places to avoid the madness around our hotel in Times Square. We saw the giant Christmas tree on a truck in Rockefeller Plaza. It had just arrived.
Restaurants of note were Juniors, Hampton Chutney Co and Gusto Organics, and I can't forget cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery. mmm.
I worked from the NYC Google office for a few days, and at night we putzed around the city. We spent time in Central Park, Chelsea, the Village, Soho, and various other places to avoid the madness around our hotel in Times Square. We saw the giant Christmas tree on a truck in Rockefeller Plaza. It had just arrived.
Restaurants of note were Juniors, Hampton Chutney Co and Gusto Organics, and I can't forget cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery. mmm.
Labels: family, food, Google, vacation
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July 28, 2008
Hey Cuil, Use a Robots.txt
Cuil.com is flooding my newsfeeds this morning. Reid already reported that their home page links are only periodically working. I, too, don't see my site on the first three pages of a vanity search. Also, looks like they need to add a robots.txt file to block other search engines from indexing their search results. This should work:
User-agent: *Honestly, who searches for search results? When I hear about a new website, the first thing I do, is a site: search. The second thing I do is check the robots.txt. Isn't that what all normal people do? ¶ 7:09 AM 3 Comments Links to this post
Disallow: /search
July 27, 2008
iPhoto woes
Sometimes iPhoto lets you import pictures, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes you can find these imported pictures through Finder, sometimes you can't. Sometimes you can attach these photos using Gmail, sometimes you can't.
Apparently, this is is by design. I might be completely wrong, but from reading through a few forums, it seems that Apple wants you to use the Apple Mail application to send pictures, and only lets you access pictures from other applications if you first copy them onto the desktop from iPhoto. Seriously?
Trying to make iPhoto work better with Picasa Web Albums Uploader and iPhoto2Gmail plugins just doesn't cut it, especially since I have to re-discover them every time under the Export menu. I need Picasa for Mac! ¶ 8:26 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
Apparently, this is is by design. I might be completely wrong, but from reading through a few forums, it seems that Apple wants you to use the Apple Mail application to send pictures, and only lets you access pictures from other applications if you first copy them onto the desktop from iPhoto. Seriously?
Trying to make iPhoto work better with Picasa Web Albums Uploader and iPhoto2Gmail plugins just doesn't cut it, especially since I have to re-discover them every time under the Export menu. I need Picasa for Mac! ¶ 8:26 PM 0 Comments Links to this post
April 30, 2008
Get an eyepatch
I skipped the Night Marchers show Monday night since I was pretty tired and wasn't that excited about going by myself. Besides, I had just gone up through the city on Saturday with a van-load of European tourists. In fact, I drove a 12 passenger Ford E350 for the entire trip through wine country. Check that off of life's to-do list.
Just got back tonight from the OSO Conference in San Jose. Highlights were Eric Schmidt, a blogger panel, Al Gore, and MC Hammer. You think I'm kidding. Pleasant surprises when I got home were tickets to the a recently added Flight of the Conchords show (Brigitta is on some pre-sale list) and Mario Kart Wii!
As for school, my first semester is coming to an end soon, and I've been finishing up my last few assignments and finalizing a paper on foreign direct investment in Poland. studying for finals will occupy my next two weeks. Also, the UF MBA program had a few more impressive rankings lately if you are into that sort of thing: Financial Times ranks it #1 in the US for Career Progress and The Economist says they have the #1 Distance Learning MBA.
Wear the funky funky eyepatch.
Just got back tonight from the OSO Conference in San Jose. Highlights were Eric Schmidt, a blogger panel, Al Gore, and MC Hammer. You think I'm kidding. Pleasant surprises when I got home were tickets to the a recently added Flight of the Conchords show (Brigitta is on some pre-sale list) and Mario Kart Wii!
As for school, my first semester is coming to an end soon, and I've been finishing up my last few assignments and finalizing a paper on foreign direct investment in Poland. studying for finals will occupy my next two weeks. Also, the UF MBA program had a few more impressive rankings lately if you are into that sort of thing: Financial Times ranks it #1 in the US for Career Progress and The Economist says they have the #1 Distance Learning MBA.
Wear the funky funky eyepatch.
Labels: Funny, Google, Life, music, school
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December 9, 2007
The Cliffs of Insanity
Finally a hotel with free WiFi! Brigitta and I are in Galway, Ireland at the moment, just back from a Day trip out to the Burren and Cliffs of Moher, well almost...We were supposed to go to the Cliffs of Moher (Cliffs of Insanity from the Princess Bride) but the winds were so strong that they closed the cliffs to visitors for the first time this year. The rest of the trip was fun, though rainy, cold, and windy.
It's been three months since I've written anything on here, and since then I've been studying for the GMAT, traveling a lot and occupying the rest of my time kicking ass at Fantasy Football. I took the GMAT in September and scored a 640 plus a 5.5 out of 6 on the essay section (which I hear no one actually looks at). I finished up my application to UF's distance MBA program and sent it in. We'll see what happens. After that, Brigitta and I went on our first European Vacation together to Berlin, Munich and Prague. It was seriously awesome, and here's our #1 tip: Visit Prague now before the Czech Republic converts to the Euro and it becomes insanely expensive. Next, for Thanksgiving, we went to north Georgia to visit my parents and brother in their new permanent home in the mountains. My dad is recently retired and now spends his time working on the house, making it seem more rustic and less modern. We flew into ATL and rented a car to drive the 2.5 hours up to Dillard, GA. Highlight of the trip...I got to drink sweet tea for the first time in years! One week after getting home from that trip, I left for Dublin, Ireland for a two week work trip. I'm halfway through now, and Brigitta came out for a week in the middle, so here we are on a weekend trip to Galway.
Slàinte
PS - Tim Tebow won the Heisman, in case you were wondering.
It's been three months since I've written anything on here, and since then I've been studying for the GMAT, traveling a lot and occupying the rest of my time kicking ass at Fantasy Football. I took the GMAT in September and scored a 640 plus a 5.5 out of 6 on the essay section (which I hear no one actually looks at). I finished up my application to UF's distance MBA program and sent it in. We'll see what happens. After that, Brigitta and I went on our first European Vacation together to Berlin, Munich and Prague. It was seriously awesome, and here's our #1 tip: Visit Prague now before the Czech Republic converts to the Euro and it becomes insanely expensive. Next, for Thanksgiving, we went to north Georgia to visit my parents and brother in their new permanent home in the mountains. My dad is recently retired and now spends his time working on the house, making it seem more rustic and less modern. We flew into ATL and rented a car to drive the 2.5 hours up to Dillard, GA. Highlight of the trip...I got to drink sweet tea for the first time in years! One week after getting home from that trip, I left for Dublin, Ireland for a two week work trip. I'm halfway through now, and Brigitta came out for a week in the middle, so here we are on a weekend trip to Galway.
Slàinte
PS - Tim Tebow won the Heisman, in case you were wondering.
Labels: family, Google, Life, Travel
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August 16, 2007
I'm like famous
Yesterday at work, I helped co-author a blog post about some new tools and features for webmasters. I'll also be attending the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose next week. Should be fun.
In my personal life, we've been planning for our vacation to Berlin, Prague, and Munich in October. Before you ask, we are not going for Octoberfest. All the real Germans I know told me to avoid it if I don't want to spend my vacation with a bunch of drunk tourists. Something I know a little bit about growing up in Panama City, Florida. Anyway, we saved a few hundred buck by going the week after.
I have a funny story about calling the cops on a little old lady, but I'll save that for another time. ¶ 7:13 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
In my personal life, we've been planning for our vacation to Berlin, Prague, and Munich in October. Before you ask, we are not going for Octoberfest. All the real Germans I know told me to avoid it if I don't want to spend my vacation with a bunch of drunk tourists. Something I know a little bit about growing up in Panama City, Florida. Anyway, we saved a few hundred buck by going the week after.
I have a funny story about calling the cops on a little old lady, but I'll save that for another time. ¶ 7:13 AM 0 Comments Links to this post
