Go Terk Yourself

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Month: February, 2007

IM Conversation of the Day

Andrew: So what about this whole Gore mansion fiasco? Andrew: Think it’ll actually hurt him? Or fizzle out fast? Me: Fizzle fast Me: It won’t hurt him with the people he’s working to convince. Me: And face it: he wouldn’t have any credibility if he lived like an ascetic hermit. Me: The environmental movement needs [...]

Money?

Now that we have The Hitchings Factor, Vastly Important Notes, Geechorama, Dial M for Mr. Swanky (in no particular order) and, of course, Go Terk Yourself I think we need to create our own exclusive blog network a la 9rules. Names?

rcov

I really should start using Mauricio Fernandez’ rcov code coverage tool for ruby.

The Kleptones

I discovered today that The Kleptones maintain a blog/podcast called Hectic City. I have a moderately irrational love for his (The Kleptones is one fellow) mashups and am quite excited to hear more of his and others’ mashups via. this podcast.

Lobster

Here’s one: <typo:flickr img=”398176063″ size=”medium”/>

Customer Service

A couple of good articles about customer service: Seth Godin’s Starting Over With Customer Service and Joel Spolsky’s Seven Steps to Remarkable Customer Service.

It’s Tricky

So it turns out it’s hard to find the time to sort through hundreds of photos while you’re on vacation. Kerri and I had a great time in D.C. and I took a bunch of great pictures. More details soon!

Washington DC

Kerri and I are leaving tomorrow morning for a wonderful four days and four nights in our nation’s capital. I’ll be sure to take lots of pictures and post them here and on Flickr as the week(end) progresses. Wish us luck! Of course, how could I miss a chance to break out my favorite DC [...]

Photos For Owen

Kerri and I went to New Hampshire this past weekend for Owen’s birthday. We gave him framed prints of three photos that I happen to be particularly happy with. <typo:flickr img=”376964835″ size=”small”/> <typo:flickr img=”376952798″ size=”small”/> <typo:flickr img=”251426897″ size=”small”/> I printed them with Flickr’s “order prints” function and they came out very nice. Be warned that, [...]

Emacs Hates Markdown

It irks me that the first search result for “emacs markdown mode” is a todo list that includes a “someday I’ll make a markdown.el” item. Grumble grumble.