September 2009
52 posts
Had a great time in Aspen. Unfortunately had to leave early. Now in San Jose at a skater movie premiere. #supercharged
McKinsey did a study for AT&T in the 80’s about cell phones. Prediction: 1M units in US by 2000. Actual: 109M. Forcasting is hard.
The problem with borrowing money from China is that an hour later, you just feel broke again. (-Bush impersonator)
I don’t think Twitter would have done well at TC50 or Demo. (Likely response: WTF?) Wonder if Google would have. (Search? Yawn.)
We had a bug today that caused some people I retweeted to show up in your timeline (on 3rd-party apps) uninvinted. Sorry about that.
I started writing in this 5-year diary (http://bit.ly/18exKE) a year ago. It’s finally paying off.
Lots of shit hitting my fan right now.
RT @twitter: Wanna get Twitter via SMS on your phone? Text “start” to 40404.
Ah…terrific massage yesterday (thanks, @britneybindel) and a good workout this morning has me more clear-headed than most Mon morns.
The Awesomeness Manifesto by @umairh: http://bit.ly/ECFrP via @jennadawn
Sorry, txt to 40404 is US-only. Other #’s found here: http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14014 (only the short codes are 2-way)
RT @shellen: Did you hear this young man, Kanye West interupted a young lady singer the other night. Terrible. Just terrible. Heart goes …
Brizzly is good. This invitation link is good for 5 people. http://bit.ly/sK8Dn
RT @gruber: Now that I see a few new-style RTs in my timeline, I see how this might be a flat-out great feature.
RT @rk: i’m really happy for your twitpocalypse and imma let you finish, but twitpocalypse 1 was better
RT @badbanana: Can’t wait to read this 32-page magazine the U.S. Postal Service sent me, unsolicited, about direct marketers going green.
RT @al3x: User icon update: the problem has been identified and your icons should be back to normal before long. See http://status.twitt …
“The bill just keeps getting more and more negative each month.” “I know, we gotta do something about that bill’s attitude.”
OH (in board meeting): “It just sounded like Cream of Wheat when it came out of my mouth.”
RT @wagnerofficial: Watch Wipeout tonight! I think this is the best episode EVER!!!!
Wow, there are some seriously funny tweet artists I didn’t even know existed over at http://favstar.fm/
If you needed to name a conference room with a bird type, what would you pick? (Taken: starling, raven, magpie, sparrow, nene, plover…)
RT @fredwilson: tumblr wire is mesmerizing. maybe the best time waster on the internet yet. http://www.tumblr.com/popular
We need more awesome interaction designers at Twitter to design that shit out of some interaction. Ya know? http://bit.ly/wtKy2 #jobs
Michael J. Fox is on @KQED (radio) right now. Always seems like a great guy.
Oh, interesting: Michael J. Fox was being interviewed by @michaelpollan, who’s sister happens to be Fox’s wife.
Interesting: Inline ads in Gmail after sending a message. Have never seen this before. Make sense. http://bit.ly/1HkKo3
Probably not most of the people talking about Taylor Swift on Twitter realize Taylor Swift if on Twitter: @taylorswift13
RT @crystal: Tweet and retweet were sitting on the bridge… tweet jumped off. Who was left?
RT @goldman: Hey Google: When you see the results for [anal] in my search history, I wanted Analytics and put it in the wrong box. So to …
Great new hire dinner with great new hires (and some okay old hires).
RT @dougw: Any out of town faces from #tc50 going to join tomorrow’s @sftechrun? 5 miles at a comfortable pace. Starts 6:30 from Twitter HQ
Enjoying the new Twitter themes and default avatars, thanks to @stop and @vl
http://yfrog.com/0oy62j @Miles is on a shopping trip.
How you feel about that is more about you than that.
RT @KathySierra: Dumbing-down doesn’t work. You want, “OMG I’m actually getting this [really f’n hard thing]!” Don’t strip the hard stuf …
I know the kids are all into “cloud computing” these days, but MS Word 2008 for Mac is kinda nice.
I forgot my belt today, so don’t be surprised if my pants fall down.
Adult faces look giant after you stare at a baby for a while.
Love the Undo Send Gmail Labs feature.
Woops, let’s try that again: http://bit.ly/CbiIs
Did you know you can exclude (or only include) tweets with links in Twitter search? http://twitter.com/#search?q=iphone%20-filter%3Alinks
Yeah, that didn’t work either. One more time: http://bit.ly/I1yz8
In the quiet office w/@jessverr, prepping for a meeting.
I’m slow at cooking, but I’m imprecise.
Found my missing wedding ring while looking for my lost house key. I’m like the absent-minded professor here. Without the professor part.
Finally realized how to crop in @skitch, and one of my favorite apps ever became significantly better.
wow, a hardware device for tweeting bakers: http://www.bakertweet.com/
Blatant “aw, cute!” baiting. http://flic.kr/p/6UNRpT
Woman on NPR said they’ll be moving animals, including, “lions, tigers, and bears.” Disappointed (yet impressed) she didn’t add “Oh my!”