Thanks to TiVo, I caught up with the first three stages of the Tour de France in one evening. Can’t ask for more than that. Maybe I’ll watch the team time trial that is Stage 4 closer to live.

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I brought the laptop with me for the weekend, but didn’t even open it up. Four whole days. That’s independence. Of course, back now and lots of digital detritus (and a few gems) to sweep up, but a nice break. I did consider going online, but it would have been dial-up, and that was enough…

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Let’s all celebrate Independence Day. Independent from what, you might ask. Or you might just enjoy the holiday.

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Agony is holding your one-year-old child for the “routine” blood tests (venipuncture is the term), and watching the technicians (a label I wanted to turn into a curse) stick your infant three times while they dig for a vein. First the left arm, at the elbow. Then the right arm, same place… same lack of…

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I’m looking forward to having TiVo available for this year’s Tour de France. Four more days until Saturday’s prologue. I probably won’t visit the official English site of the Tour de France very often during the Tour, since I’d rather watch it for myself. Be warned, though: www.tourdefrance.com (deliberately not linked) seems to be bad…

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Alex Salkever offers “The Scoop on CNET” over at BusinessWeek. There is a companion Q&A with CEO Shelby Bonnie: “CNET’s CEO: “We Can Be Switzerland”.” Always interesting to see external viewpoints about what we’re doing. In the main piece, I found this quote interesting: Yet, CNET is still struggling to become a well-known brand beyond…

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After spending the last few hours figuring out travel plans for a weekend in July, I know that I miss having a travel agent. The internet is often about self-service and removing the intermediary, but time is money, too… and I just spent a lot of my personal currency. (Eventually, I spent some dollars, too.)…

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Tom Clancy certainly writes some of the best “long trip without children” books around. Only problem is, I can never remember if I’ve read them all or not. I’m close, at least on the real ones (none of that OpCenter stuff). Two weekends ago, I polished off The Sum of All Fears. I’m fairly sure…

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Commuting on a train is a great time to get a lot of reading done. For The Truelove, I have the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) to thank. The Truelove is book 15 in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. Most striking about this book was having a woman character on board, an Australian convict…

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The RSS Weekly webcast today went well, I thought. I’d be curious to get some feedback from the audience, whatever there was of it. A recurring topic was the metrics required of RSS readers/feeds for advertising purposes. If full-text feeds are the desired goal, then, yes, advertising models need to work for all parties (readers,…

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