I’m going offline for the rest of the year… Enjoy the holidays! See you in 2007.
Google’s Year-End Zeitgeist is always interesting and often surprising. Who would’ve thought that bebo was going to be the most searched-for term in 2006? Maybe I’m behind the times, but I didn’t even know bebo until now… Seems like it’s another social networking site à la MySpace. Anyways, go check it out, there’s some interesting [...]
Part of the reason why I love chess is the amazing complexity of the game. As David Shenk explains in his fabulous book The Immortal Game: After the first round of moves (meaning, white makes its first move and black responds with its first move), there are 400 possible board positions, as white has twenty [...]
I’ve been a long-time user and fan of Yahoo Finance, but Google Finance is slowly catching up. Now they released a bunch of new features that are a definitive improvement.
I’ve been hearing a lot about Linden Lab’s virtual online society Second Life lately, but I never really bothered to check it out. Well, today I had my first taste of it, when an interactive advertising agency we wanted to interview decided to give us their pitch in their virtual meeting room. After being shown [...]
Here’s a pretty neat picture of last Saturday’s rare night launch of the Discovery space shuttle.
Or I should say, coffee-free. I haven’t had any coffee at all in the past five weeks, which is a pretty remarkable achievement for me. I’ve been drinking plenty of tea instead…
I was in Monterey on Sunday/Monday to take a business partner out on the incredible Links At Spanish Bay golf course. It doesn’t get much better than this. The course is gorgeous, perfectly manicured with ocean views on most of the holes. It is brutally difficult though – we sure got our money’s worth…