I’m off to Sunnyvale CA for a week for some intensive, advanced product training for the software I install and handle on-site support for. Should be a long, tiring, fun week.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
cash cab
Friday, June 6, 2008
I’m a huge fan of the Discovery Channel series, Cash Cab. While in New York this week, I kept looking for the elusive 1-in-13000 cabs that Ben Bailey drives, hoping for the opportunity to hop in and play the game. Well, I didn’t have a chance to get in, but I saw the cab Tuesday [...]
we interrupt this regularly-scheduled lunch…
Thursday, June 5, 2008
…to bring you this update: I just saw a guy climbing the side of the New York Times building here in Manhattan. Not sure if it’s the same guy who climbed the Eiffel Tower, but it was interesting. Definitely not something you see every day.
why i’m not moving office spaces
Thursday, June 5, 2008
I follow Joel Spolsky’s blog/news site, joelonsoftware.com. His most recent addition is “Adventures in Office Space“. Apparently, they’ve run out of space in their 8th Avenue office, and will be moving to 55 Broadway in a couple months, once their renovations are in-place. The reason I mention this is that I interviewed with Fog Creek [...]
charley o’s
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
I’ve now been to 1611 Broadway twice. Once last December when I was interviewing at FogCreek, and then again Tuesday this week after hitting the Museum Mile Festival in Manhattan. As a side note,walking down the middle of 5th Avenue is a blast – what’s normally a bustling, jam-packed 20 blocks was cordoned-off by the [...]
virage
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Continuing my new theme of including restaurant reviews of places I have been, I must praise Virage in Manhattan. On the corner of 2d Avenue and E 7th Street, is a self-proclaimed “mediterranean-style” restaurant. I ordered their Monday special, which on that visit was lamb chops with roasted gnochhi and a charred tomato and pepper [...]
god bless the lugs
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
I’m a member of TriLUG – the Triangle Linux User Group. Mostly I’m on the mailing lists as a lurker, sometimes as a contributor. But this week I asked a couple questions which the friendly community jumped-on to assist me with. Thanks guys!
directions
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
I met a friendly girl (Shelly) today at the subway station at 40th and 8th in front of the New York Times building. But the only reason I bring this up is because she asked me how to get to the number 7 subway. There I was, calmly reviewing the subway map so I could [...]
metering bandwidth
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
A horrible comparison has been drawn in the following AP article about TimeWarner: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A. “You’re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?” There’s a problem with that statement: lots of cell phone users [...]
bridge cafe
From 273 W 38th St to 279 Water St in Manhattan is a bit of a hike. The way I walked was about 5.4 miles. Yes, I walked. If I’d known better how to get there, I could have done it in 4.2 miles. But I didn’t, so I walked the long way. The only [...]