Every year for my Mom’s birthday lunch she has a Doberge cake from Gambino’s in New Orleans, but this year there was a Fedex snafu and it arrived spoiled. We found a last-minute replacement, but it piqued my curiosity as to better alternatives and I commissioned this survey of eight bakeries to answer the question: […]
Category Archives: Personal
Jay Z + Me
I think it was Dustin Curtis who said something along the lines of “you can learn a lot about someone by their bucket list,” and he had posted his publicly recently. (Posting it is a great idea by the way, people will help you with it.) I began to think about mine, which was a […]
Twenty-Nine
A week ago I rang in my twenty-ninth birthday and entered that twilight zone prior to thirty. It was an exciting day, I got to fly a plane, dogfight another, and do some aerobatics like a tumble, which was pretty much the coolest thing ever. Unusually for me, I managed to stay away from my […]
Twenty-Eight
This is the tenth year I’ve blogged my birthday: 19, 20, 21, 22 (this one is funny), 23, 24, 25, and 26, 27. Wow… I don’t think I’ve ever done anything for ten years in a row before. The public awareness of blogging comes and goes every two years, but for me it’s been a […]
Twenty-seven
Today is a fun day — 2011-1-11 (not 1:11 PM anymore, I’m a slow writer) and I’m turning 27. This is the time of the year I always look back, and from last year’s resolutions I actually did pretty well. I was able to simplify a number of areas of my life, including reducing the […]
Only in New York
Last night around 10:15 decided to head out for dinner, and somewhat randomly picked the Cuban restaurant Guantanamera because it was nearby. Sat down in a booth near the bar, facing the band, and ordered some mojitos. Over the din of the other diners I thought “hey this house band isn’t half bad.” Within a […]
I Miss School
Just like they say youth is wasted on the young, I think I squandered school when I was in it. The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it all I wanted to do was hack around on the web. Now that the vast majority […]
Top Emails and more, 2009 Edition
As I like to do every year, here are the top 10 people who emailed me this year: Toni Schneider — 914 Maya Desai — 672 Mom — 475 Raanan Bar-Cohen — 284 Barry Abrahamson — 276 Rose Goldman — 256 Jane Wells — 193 Michael Pick — 185 Donncha O Caoimh — 179 Alex […]
Twenty-six
Today is my birthday! It is also, if you write it the right way, a palindrome: 01-11-10. (Hat tip: Mike Adams.) Twenty-five was a very good year. I started out with a lot of goals and actually made progress or accomplished most of them, as well as some things I didn’t anticipate. Of my 14 […]
Twenty-Five
Today I am a quarter of a century old. To be honest I never thought I would be this old, it was a number beyond where I could imagine or visualize but the last few years have just gone by in a blur and here I am, 25 years young and finally able to rent […]
Top Emailers 2008, etc
As an update to last year’s post: Toni Schneider — 1,052 Maya Desai — 826 Mom — 659 Raanan Bar-Cohen — 452 Donncha O Caoimh — 424 Barry Abrahamson — 386 Mark Riley — 222 Jane Wells — 218 Ryan Boren — 200 Andrew Ozz — 197 Matt Thomas — 193 Liz Danzico — 148 […]
Happy New Year! and Dubai Meetup
I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy, safe, and prosperous new year. 2009 looks like it’s going to be a heckuva year. 🙂 Here’s a quick video clip of Grandmaster Flash from the NYE party last night at The Apartment: Also a reminder that tomorrow will be the first ever Dubai […]
MT Pro w/ Comments
Movable Type Pro — with Comments! The latest innovation in blogging. See the original here. 🙂
Arriving in Greece
First photos from arriving in Athens, ferry to Ios.
On Ma.tt
A few weeks ago I twittered I was heading to the bank to wire money for a life change. People got excited, and assumed I was buying a house, fancy car, plane, company, jewelry… it was really amusing to see where people’s imagination went. I’m afraid the truth is much less exciting, at least to […]
Top Emailers
These are the people I received the most email from in 2007 (started logging in April): Toni Schneider — 996 Maya Desai — 802 Mom — 357 Raanan Bar-Cohen — 349 Barry Abrahamson — 250 Ryan Boren — 195 Donncha O Caoimh — 145 Matt Thomas — 118 Tony Conrad — 105 Mike Hirshland — […]
2007 Resolutions
Not be so late with things like resolutions. Make my writing shorter. Because… nevermind. Read 2 offline books a month. File taxes on time. Do 3 major releases of WordPress. Get Wii tennis score to 4000. Eat more regular meals. Release 3 new Open Source projects. Normalize sleep schedule. Throw out clothes I don’t wear, […]
Resolution Recap
Like Tantek, I found I didn’t seem to make any public resolutions in 2006, so because of my awful memory I don’t have any idea what I hoped to accomplish last year. Anyway I thought it would be interesting to make a progress report on the resolutions I made two years ago. Build up piano […]
Beeping
About five minutes ago, the beeping stopped. I was in Texas last week for BBQ, clouds, and a wedding. At some point when I was gone, something in my house started beeping. When I arrived home there was a high-pitched chirp about every 45 seconds to a minute, coming from somewhere in the house. Generally […]
This is Real Broadband
Care of VVD Communications, the cool company with a bad website, I now have a synchronous 10mbps connection in my apartment. The first thing I did was go to a bandwidth testing site, as seen above. I was using Comcast before which was pretty snappy, but this is a whole new way to experience the […]