Wow.
Marc Ambinder (March 27, 2008) - Bloomberg Introduces Obama
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Ted Phelps, cycling across America, and me cycling home
So I met Ted when I was cycling home from work a couple of years ago. He was clearly way too brown to have been cycling just for a day out. We got to chatting as he asked for directions on the route I was using, so I offered to accompany him as a sometime guide until he could see his destination. Lovely bloke. He took a picture of me, and today I found it. Nice work Ted!
Cycling on the Web
One of those moments when the rich content of the WWW just blows you away.
Spring is coming and I'm getting very excited for the year's cycling! Looks like 65 degrees Fahrenheit on the way home today :)
crazyguyonabike.com: Bicycle Touring: A place for bicycle tourists and their journals
MapMyRide.com - Map your Cycling and Mountain Biking Routes. Topo Maps, Elevation Profiles, GPS Support.
Spring is coming and I'm getting very excited for the year's cycling! Looks like 65 degrees Fahrenheit on the way home today :)
crazyguyonabike.com: Bicycle Touring: A place for bicycle tourists and their journals
MapMyRide.com - Map your Cycling and Mountain Biking Routes. Topo Maps, Elevation Profiles, GPS Support.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Calculated Risk: Real Case-Shiller House Price Index
I have been waiting for this - at last the inflation adjusted Case-Shiller Index.
Lisa and I live in the DC area, which is one of the Composite 10 cities. I suppose we'll keep building the house fund. If there's an under-shoot of the housing market we could do just fine.
Hat Tip: Calculated Risk: Real Case-Shiller House Price Index
Lisa and I live in the DC area, which is one of the Composite 10 cities. I suppose we'll keep building the house fund. If there's an under-shoot of the housing market we could do just fine.
Hat Tip: Calculated Risk: Real Case-Shiller House Price Index
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Seth's Blog: Why bother having a resume?
Sometimes I am asked why I blog. This has happened more than once when I ask a job candidate if they have a blog. Here is Seth Godin writing along the same lines, asking why have a resume when you can have so much more. I have to say I tend to agree. I always find a resume to be a like a book's table of contents, but without any book! I think the only time I read the table of contents thoroughly is if I happen to be in the market for a text or reference book, and even then it is hardly exciting, and only as good as the writing that follows! And I'm not in that market that frequently or enthusiastically...
Some would say that's why one has the phone interview. Good. I like the phone interview. I think it is essential. But why stop there?
What is better? Blog or resume? Well like so many "either or" questions the real answer lies in both. Maybe the resume is useful to people who want a checklist, and I suppose that's useful if one has to check out actual educational references and suchlike. But how dull! It used to be in the 1990s that people wanted to see elaborate Web sites, but these days are different. For me, the blog is likely to reveal more meaning, with significantly less humdrum evening engineering. Hopefully it will be a useful habitual exercise in forming meaningful thought into clear communication. Sometimes it might be useful to me as a record of things I find interesting. At the very least it will be a brief record of what I thought at a certain time, or maybe reveal a way of thinking, and a way of writing.
Anyway, once again Seth provides perspective, and another reason for you to blog :)
Seth's Blog: Why bother having a resume?
Some would say that's why one has the phone interview. Good. I like the phone interview. I think it is essential. But why stop there?
What is better? Blog or resume? Well like so many "either or" questions the real answer lies in both. Maybe the resume is useful to people who want a checklist, and I suppose that's useful if one has to check out actual educational references and suchlike. But how dull! It used to be in the 1990s that people wanted to see elaborate Web sites, but these days are different. For me, the blog is likely to reveal more meaning, with significantly less humdrum evening engineering. Hopefully it will be a useful habitual exercise in forming meaningful thought into clear communication. Sometimes it might be useful to me as a record of things I find interesting. At the very least it will be a brief record of what I thought at a certain time, or maybe reveal a way of thinking, and a way of writing.
Anyway, once again Seth provides perspective, and another reason for you to blog :)
Seth's Blog: Why bother having a resume?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
More tea needed
Or perhaps more time to drink it in the morning! This morning was very hard without ANY caffeine or food, fasting until I realized the Physical with the eminent Doctor Zweig is NEXT week. Well that gives me a week to keep healthy (with the cycling to work and swimming this weekend in Boca), and forget about how stupid I feel today.
Of course these feelings are compounded with noticing that my friends seem to be writing better and better blog postings, with elaborate and beautiful prose. Let's see if I can rise to that level of writing too. As I mentioned elsewhere today, I think blogging is an excellent habit for Product Managers: careful judgment of subject matter, the opportunity to communicate in multiple formats and registers. At least, that’s some of the main reasons why I blog. A bientot mes amis.
Of course these feelings are compounded with noticing that my friends seem to be writing better and better blog postings, with elaborate and beautiful prose. Let's see if I can rise to that level of writing too. As I mentioned elsewhere today, I think blogging is an excellent habit for Product Managers: careful judgment of subject matter, the opportunity to communicate in multiple formats and registers. At least, that’s some of the main reasons why I blog. A bientot mes amis.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Test Health Embed Spreadsheet from Google Docs
This is a test. Please Excuse the name of the spreadsheet.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
A blast from the past: Hillary Clinton and Michael Dukakis
Yet more insight from the superb political blog, The Field. Now Al Giordano is by no means infallible; but the quality of most of the thinking is very high, and the detail work is better than most I have seen.
What do I think? I think that blogs like the field, and their sources such as the even more detailed work done by state by state bloggers, issue bloggers, and even precinct bloggers provides astonishing insight, and maybe even some useful data for possible aggregation.
One looks forward to the day when people blog about BI in the same way: a metrics blog, etc. This gives me an idea.
The Field » Big States, Myth and Fact
What do I think? I think that blogs like the field, and their sources such as the even more detailed work done by state by state bloggers, issue bloggers, and even precinct bloggers provides astonishing insight, and maybe even some useful data for possible aggregation.
One looks forward to the day when people blog about BI in the same way: a metrics blog, etc. This gives me an idea.
The Field » Big States, Myth and Fact
Sunday, March 2, 2008
A voice remembered
There is a special joy in discovering a friend's blog, and realizing there's a lot to catch up on. It is even better when the voice you remember, with its cadences and rhythms and vocabulary, is right there in the text.
Why say this tonight? Well for Whipple Wonders, that's what!
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