Today was a sunny, clear, calm day in San Francisco. Maybe my memory is faulty, but it feels like we’ve had more of those this year than anytime in the last seven years. For those of us who sit in front of a computer as part of a job (in addition to hobbies like this…

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Child #2 will arrive sometime soon. I’ve known this for, oh, about nine months. 😉 That said, I admit to still being only ‘mostly ready’ for the arrival. I guess I feel that I’ve been through this before, and I know what to expect. At the same time, though, I’m sure (a) the birth will…

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Contrary to one friend’s report, the movie Finding Nemo was… well… OK. Not the best Pixar movie. Fun, fine, OK, but nothing special. Enough scary parts that I don’t think Benjamin will see it for a while.

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Played as a sub again for the Longshots, Vin’s floor hockey team. Had to play short-handed, and lost 8-5. Going to be sore tomorrow, and tired now. Once were athletes… or something like that.

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A bit of a history lesson for identity systems: the 1958 introduction of the credit card, at least a quick review of said event. This article mentions gives credit to “Joseph Nocera’s excellent book, “A Piece of the Action.”” — I’ll have to add that to my list at some point.

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OK, it was one minute long, but at least now I can say I’ve been on one. Stepping on, you have to relax… it rocked back and forth as I tried to compensate, rather than letting the Segway do the work. After those initial seconds, it was stable, and while I didn’t go more than…

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I enjoy Steve Outing’s coverage of the online media space. I’ve been a reader of the online-news mailing list for ~10 years (yes, it’s been around that long). E-Media Tidbits, the group blog at Poynter.org he started, is a useful resource. All that as a preface for the fact that I found this Editor &…

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Found out today that Mark Johnson is blogging (via Vin). This post starts with Hunter S. Thompson, and moves on to the ROI of blogging. Most people seemed to agree that if you have even one reader coming to your blog then you have achieved ROI. (snip) is not new technology, and the likelihood for…

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Just because… http://www.bigdig.com/

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More things I’ve found worthy of bookmarking in the hopes of reading them in the future. Attention Scope, from May 26, 2003. Microsoft research on handling notification Vin Crosbie’s weblog, where the RSS feed isn’t currently working. I’ve met Vin twice, and read lots of his posts to online-news over the years. He’s fantastic about…

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