Journalism, Technology, History

Gaga at Google

These tidbits, which came out last week in the Google earnings, just boggle me:

World Series

I’m going with the Astros. Got Phil Garner (former Bearden High School standout, UT star and Jefferson City native) and Chis Burke ( a great player at Tennessee in 2001). Our sons, of course, are going with the White Sox....

A couple interesting sites

[I’ve been playing with “Remember the Milk. It’s a simple site concept. It just does “To Dos.” No feature bloat. It’s got a single purpose in life – so far. I’ve never been a list maker.Maybe Post-It reminders and scribbled...

Nobody Does It Like Jack Lail.

So saith the The Advertising Slogan Generator. Fun! Click the link and see what slogan it can come up for your name. Saw this on Seth’s (Godin) Blog.

Life Hackers

There’s a great piece on “Life Hackers” in The New York Times Magazine (10/16/2005). The basic premise is our jobs are “interrupt driven” and we end up having “continuous partial attention” (we’re so busy we never focus on anything). You...

Abosolutely Free Software

A great list of free software. Saw a link to it on LifeHacker. I thought Meebo was a particularly good idea.

Quick trip to North Carolina

Made a quick tirp to North Carolina on Thursday My dad received theOrder of the Long Leaf Pine from the State of North Carolina at a meeting of the board of Randolph Community College. It was a great event. State...

A beheading in Pirate land

Whew, what a mystery. ECU Baseball Coach Randy Mazey is axed by AD Terry Holland for unspecified reasons.

I'd venture to say ...

“Most of them couldn’t have raised money with a gun, let alone a presentation.”

Online timeline

Noticed this link in the Online-News email this morning. David Carlson has a comprehensive Online Timeline. Worth bookmarking! A couple entries: 1969 – CompuServe Information Service launches in Columbus, Ohio, as a computer time-sharing service. 1974 – First Use of...
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