Watching the second game of the Argentina team against Serbia Montenegro. Most impressive football that these guys are deploying. Lots of agility and speed.
Certainly a strong contender for the title.
I have flown in commercial airplanes hundreds of times, and I have had my fair share of incidents. But it is the first time that I had someone next to me pray out loud for 10 minutes that the plane would not crash, etc. As much as I respect everyone's religious beliefs, orientations and needs, wtf!
My current (2-burner) BBQ is showing clear signs of fatigue and I am now looking for something more serious, as in BTUs, 6 burners and a lot of room for cooking - allowing me to cook a boatload of hamburgers at the same time.
I visited BBQ Galore in Palo Alto today and zero'ed in on their Grand Turbo.
Any other suggestion ?
PS: the motivation for some of you is that you will get to eat some of these burgers :-).
Not only is it interesting, but it is produced by Bernadette - my wife - who is the Program and Marketing Manager for the Center.
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Six Apart's Vox (ex-Comet) is out in preview
Six Apart has opened (ajar – since it is an invite only preview) the door of its new group/family-oriented service: Vox. It is full of your usual Web 2.0 features such as Ajax and tagging, integrating multimedia content, social networking, etc.
The result looks pretty slick and a tad slow (but it is just a preview). A lot of the features, such as embedding photos in posts, adding tags, etc. are very easy to use as compared to other implementations. Hey guys, actually, can we get these goodies on TypePad as well ?
More as I play with it further on jeffclavier.vox.com. A couple of other posts on Vox: TechCrunch’s review, Cecily’s post.
As a first post to Vox (thanks for the invite David), I have to point to that amusing story of Jon Udell's tribulations with Google PR. Here we go: Earth to Google PR.
Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API. I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs. P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to try to connect me with someone.
A couple of days later I hear from S., on Google's "communication team." S. initiates the usual PR protocol: "Can you give me some details about the story you are working on and what information you'd like from Google?"
Sigh. I'm not working on a story, at least not yet, I'm just curious about GData. I can and will research it myself, but if you want to play a role in that process, trying to pin me down to a laundry list of questions won't help your cause. Just find me somebody who is passionate about GData, and who is allowed to discuss it.
But then S. turns up the heat. "Can you also please contact the communications team rather than going to the product folks directly so we can make sure your inquiry is routed to the appropriate party and answered in a timely fashion?"
Oh please. It was P. who wrote to me in the first place. I relayed my request through P. because I had a hunch that the "communications team" might not be tuned into GData. So I ignore the slapdown and merely reply to S.:
"I would like to talk to folks on the GData team about the APIs and their uses."
S., who let's recall is employed by the world's leading search engine, replies:
"What does Gdata refer to? We don't have a product called Gdata that I'm aware of....."
I am not making this up.
Another day passes, S. figures out how to Google GData, and writes back that an interview can be arranged, provided that I first enumerate my questions.
Never mind. I only have one question at this point. What planet are you living on?
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