Practical Chickenfoot Presentation
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Today I gave a guest lecture on Chickenfoot to Monzy's course on mashups at NYU's
Tisch School of the Arts. The presentation is available online as a Google...
Growing Your Own Mushrooms
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On the last farmer’s market day of the year (around Halloween), we bought a
Grow-Your-Own-Mushrooms kit from the farmer we usually buy mushrooms from.
Grea...
Review: Mercury Falls
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When Robert Kroese, who also works at Google, offered his comic novel Mercury
Falls on the Kindle for $1.99, I bought it, to support another Googler, if
no...
Cele w Google Analytics – w locie i z danymi wstecz
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Jakiś czas temu kolega z Google pokazał mi dość ciekawy sposób
wykorzystywania segmentów zaawansowanych do analizowania celów. Sposób ten
wymaga trochę man...
Live-blogging the Google Chrome OS event
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I’m sitting in a room at Google waiting to hear more about Google Chrome OS.
You can watch the webcast along with me if you like. For starters, here’s
what...
Overheard at the optometrist today
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Cranky Old Guy #1: What did you do to your glasses?!
Cranky Old Guy #2: I stepped on them.
Cranky Old Guy #1: [a thinkify’ing pause] You’re not supposed...
U.S. Caselaw in Google Scholar
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Last night, an important new feature launched on Google Scholar: more than
80 years of US federal caselaw (including tax and bankruptcy courts) and
over 5...
Google Reader and Closure Tools
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Since Google Reader makes heavy use of the recently-open sourced Closure
Tools, Louis Gray asked me to give a client's perspective on using them. He
wrot...
Ubuntu Koala Missing Volume Control: Found!
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Another small Koala hiccup I just fixed was my missing volume control.
Usually, for GNOME at least, gnome-volume-control-applet is the little
speaker icon ...
Journey of a lifetime
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In everyone's life, there are moments that they know will change their
future forever. I had such a moment thirty years ago today but at the time I
could n...
In autostrada, di notte...
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Ciao a tutti. Vi siete mai trovati a guidare ultimamente in autostrada, di
notte? Beh, vi volevo solo far notare una cosa che vedo sempre più spesso.
Guard...
Windows 7 Party: Oh Dear
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As per usual, the views, (ideas, photos, and mockery too) in this post are
mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer. Oh Microsoft. Who did
you ha...
Blogging and writing, just not here lately...
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I'm still around, despite the dust and cobwebs around here. I've been doing
a lot of writing, mostly on other blogs, though:
Launched dataliberation.org on...
Remembering Rajeev Motwani
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Official memorial website celebrating the life and legacy of Rajeev Motwaniwent live late last week.
Friday's memorial service was unforgettable (see the of...
So what HAVE you been up to at Google?
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Sorry I can't give many updates about what I work on anymore, but
fortunately when media articles come out about it, I feel free to share it
with the rest ...
Pasta Dogs!
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I ran into this concept at the link above, and months later finally tried my hand.Lots of fun, and pretty tasty, though I wish I'd made a sharper cheese sauc...
Pride Program for 2009 - TLV
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Below you can see a snippet from Visit Gay Israel gayisrael.org.il website
which is the official for LGBT Tourism to Israel.
This year the Parade (June 12t...
Why you shouldn't be reading this blog
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Last March I wrote a blog entry called "A few ideas about Negotiation". It
wasn't too beefy, was a simple collection of things I've learned, and from
the f...
Who Needs the Flu Vaccine?
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Based on global surveillance of influenza strains, all 3 strains in the 2008
to 2009 influenza vaccines are different from the 2007 to 2008 vaccine
strains...
When being a genius means you know you aren't one
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I was reading this post by a fellow Googler, and I have a hunch: he is
exactly the person he describes in the post. I bet he has this superhuman
ability of...
On the Northeast Blackout
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After a month of inactivity, it is only fitting that this site comes back
online, after the biggest power failure in North American history. Actually,
in...
