The Daily Ted talk

Tweet Yesterday on Twitter, my friend Kri posted the following: One of my favorite morning rituals. A new, interesting topic, every day. I’ve watched several of the Ted videos in the past, but I find that I often spend twice as long deciding which video to watch. There...

book review: Rework

In the span of a week, two people both recommended I check out the book Rework (Amazon affiliate link). That would normally be enough to get me to pick up the book all by itself, but when I found out it was written by the guys from 37 Signals, the developers of BaseCamp and other kick-ass...

Take time to say thanks

When you spend your days working on code, there will sometimes be days where everything you think should work won’t, and things that shouldn’t work do. These days tend to push the frustration levels to the tipping point. For me, today was one of those days. I spent 10+ hours...

Blog World Expo: The Pa...

One of the greatest parts of any conference is the after parties. Have your conference in a town like Las Vegas and it’s not hard to imagine that the amount of parties available to you is mind boggling. We definitely did our share of partying, too! Here’s what our weekend...

Comedy, the hard way

A week or two back a good friend invited me out for an evening at a comedy club here in town. He had received complementary tickets, and I was glad to have the opportunity to hang out with my friend, so this seemed like the makings of a great evening! We arrived to the casino an hour...

Not just any tequila wi...

How do you say happy birthday in Spanish? I’ll tell you how, Chinaco tequila! I have long been a fan of Chinaco tequila. I even wrote about taking it to our company holiday party back in 2005. But last summer while on a business trip in Santa Barbra I was having lunch at a tequila bar...