Ever say the wrong thing? I thought so. Let’s leave it at that. In other news, my sister pinged me via Yahoo Messenger today. Glad she did, and we’ll see if it happens again. Of course, she was online with the idea of chatting with her new significant other, so I only distracted her for…

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My brother turned an internship with the Jackson Hole News & Guide into a full-time job, mixing newspaper layout responsibilities with some reporting on the side. Good for him, and I hope he enjoys the work. I’ve never been to Jackson Hole, but I would think it’s a fun place to be young and single.…

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I feel like I’m not reading much at all, but I guess I am getting through a few pages after all. Reading is often the most selfish activity (apart from blogging?), so I feel like I need to steal minutes here and there for it. Those days when I take the bus to work instead…

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Been answering a lot of reader email over the last few days (for work… answering reader email from this blog wouldn’t take but a few minutes). It can be a struggle to stay polite, but it’s amazing to see how surprised readers are to get a response from a human to their complaint/comment. That can…

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Tom Clancy’s The Bear and the Dragon is the most recent book I’ve finished. Picked it up in the airport, all 1137 pages of global military events cascade along. Clancy expects that readers know who Jack Ryan — still President Ryan here — is and what’s he done. Various references to events in earlier books…

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OK, it’s not that bad, but just spent five hours at work, fixing some known issues, and uncovered two big problems, one of which should never have happened and the other never should have passed through even the limited testing we did (and I am part of that we). Too late to explain here right…

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First redesign of News.com since January 2001. Bigger project than intended, although less included in this initial release than expected/hoped for. Always the same story, probably. Anyway, big step. And now I can come home at normal hours again!

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Like Scott Rosenberg, my son is a big fan of Richard Scarry and his pie rats. I’m sure my daughter will be, too.

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Normally, speaking on a panel would be the highlight of the work day. It probably will be, but it’s been a busy, busy, busy week… so today I’m just looking forward to learning from the discussion and taking a short break from this work project. Helps that Moscone West is just a 10-minute walk from…

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On Thursday, I’m part of a panel discussing “The Effects of Blogs on Publishing“. I’m looking forward to joining Scott Rosenberg of Salon and Matt May, of the W3C, among other things. My bio mentions this blog… which is probably not why Lauren Wood (an actual nuclear physicist at one point, though clearly not practicing)…

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