RIP, Anita Rowland
I just learned on Boing Boing that Anita Rowland lost her years-long battle with cancer. I never met Anita in person, but we corresponded years ago over stylesheet bugs when she was working for...
View ArticleHeading image updated
Now that we’ve got two kids, the previous heading image (of Sammy) was out of date. A new image now appears at the top of each page, again thanks to Jason “Xyne.” Details in a separate page about the...
View ArticleLong words
Don’t actually read this entry. Skip on to something else. Some of my favorite long words include dithyrambic, exothermal, disambiguate, ostentatious, loquacious, and confabulate. In business, we...
View ArticleA moment of cognitive dissonance exposing prejudice
I don’t have the highest opinion of Wal-Mart (in part from watching this Frontline episode), and I admit I associate Wal-Mart with “low brow” and “middle America.” (Even setting aside any...
View ArticleIntroducing: Best of TiVoCast blog posts
To round out today’s TiVoCast news, starting today we’ll be posting a new feature here on the blog. John T., one of our TiVoCast team members, is a production specialist, and he watches EVERYTHING we...
View ArticleVariegated miscellany
Today I attended Jack and Andy’s fifth birthday party at Hoover park, and watched Bob get pelted by water balloons and shaving-cream-filled sponges by ten ecstatic kids. (How I escaped that fate, given...
View ArticleFriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook: The new social
A few months ago, a friend of mine left his position at Google and went to join a startup called FriendFeed. He invited me to join while it was still in beta, and now that it’s open to the public, it’s...
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Wordle creates stunning word maps
Jonathan Feinberg’s Wordle is a very polished online tool that takes a bunch of words and turns them into clouds, where the most-frequently-used words are displayed proportionally larger. Paste in your...
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WordPress 2.6 installed
If all went well, you won’t see any difference. However, it seems to have blown away all of my categories. Hmm. EDIT: Fixed my categories, what a pain. I fixed them by following steps at this article....
View ArticleBusy month, changing gears
Now that I’ve updated this blog to the latest software and ironed out all the wrinkles, it’s very apparent how little I posted in July: Just six articles prior to today, and five of them work-related...
View ArticleLooking for your favorite shows and blogs?
Why, we’re watching the Olympics too. We’re all watching! Your favorite shows and blogs will return after the Olympics. Zeigen.com — returning on Monday, August 25. And now, back to our live coverage...
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Oh yeah, blogging
Yeah, I was just kidding about that “returning 8/25″ thing. That was just excuse-making. Please to excuse. In the meantime, here’s the number of posts I’ve managed each month. Seasonal variation...
View ArticleCheck out BayDad!
Steve Lacy, a friend and former co-worker, has created BayDad, a blog by, for, and about dads in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’ll be blogging there a bit, and I just wrote my first post there, about...
View ArticleThe Web 2.0 dilemma: Public vs. personal personas
“Web 2.0,” if it means anything at all, is a term usually used to reflect the modern trend of interactive web sites that encourage users to create and share content. Blogs, wikis such as Wikipedia,...
View ArticleWheeee! Fit?
The truth is, since having kids I’ve not been exercising regularly. The real truth is, I stopped exercising regularly even a year before Sammy was conceived. The sad, genuine, unvarnished truth is, my...
View ArticleWeb 2.0 diplomacy
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” — Wynn Catlin By publishing that quote (it’s frequently misattributed to Will Rogers, but I have no idea who Wynn Catlin was),...
View ArticleVGT Omnivore’s Hundred a la Zeigen
This is going around, and it’s been a while since I did a meme theme, so… Why not! Here’s a hundred random foods, and you bold the ones you’ve eaten, and cross out the ones you’d never try. “Never” is...
View ArticleDaily
I’m going for daily posts. Yeah, it’s a new year’s thing. We’ll see how long it lasts. I reserve the right to fill in backdated posts (like this one) after the fact.
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Plinky linky another time sinky
I’m trying out Plinky. It’s a site that asks an interesting or thought-provoking question each day. You then fill out the answer and share the answers with your friends. (And then buy stuff? Frankly...
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New terms of service for zeigen.com
Thank you for reading zeigen.com. We value your readership and your contributions. By reading those words, you have now already unconditionally agreed to the terms of the following license, which...
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A decade for me, and a profitable year for TiVo
Today marks a personal milestone and a corporate milestone: I started at TiVo on March 2, 1999, precisely ten years ago. That was one office building, nine desk locations, six different bosses, over...
View ArticleWordPress 2.7.1
Zeigen.com is now running WordPress 2.7.1; please let me know if you see any issues.
View ArticleWordPress users: Don’t forget to adjust for DST
If you use WordPress, even the latest version doesn’t automatically adjust the offset for daylight saving time. You need to adjust it manually (along with all the clocks in the house). To change it:...
View ArticleI claim this bacon/tilde ASCII art in the name of Zeigen
Everyone is familiar with <3 representing a heart, and ~~~`~,~~<@ representing a rose, and \o being a wave hello, and @#!@$@#:-) being Carmen Miranda, but in my latest Gchat status update...
View ArticleFriendFeed comment plugin installed
I’ve added Gürkan OLUÇ’s FriendFeed Comment plug-in, which should allow for any new posts I make here to have their FriendFeed comments and likes displayed as well. UPDATE July 25th: I could never get...
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Buzz vs. FriendFeed: 14 features I miss in Buzz
My feed in Google Buzz If you use Gmail, you’re likely aware of Google’s new social networking service, Google Buzz, which launched this week. It’s only the the third day of Buzz’s public existence,...
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Oops
I’m very sorry but I remembered to blog recently. I have not been busy at all, so it should be easy to not blog, but somehow I did write something. Sorry. With blogging being dead, it’s critical to not...
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Resolutions are just words…
…until they turn into results. Resolution: Eat and watch more fish. There seems to be a justifiable backlash against making new year’s resolutions among my friends, but I’m old-fashioned. Despite being...
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Aloha
Starting in 2009, most of my social media activity was in FriendFeed. I’ve written about it before; it was far better than Facebook, Twitter, and any other site in terms of features — and the community...
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