Ugh. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but from a development standpoint, I’m preferring Microsoft Live Maps to Google Maps these days. As an end user, looking for directions, Google Maps just seems a little nicer and has more features. However from a development standpoint, the thing’s just weird and buggy. [...]

So if you have a job offer on a Thursday, but a better one is pending, is it ok to tell the offering company you’d like the weekend to think about it to buy time for the other one? Sure, especially since it’s so late in the week. Tell them you’d like the [...]

Apparently, nobody on the freakin’ North Jersey Coast Line train or the PATH got the memo that St. Patrick’s Day is over. Even Google is clueless.

Irish bishops move St. Patrick’s Day 2008 over conflict with Holy Week
Dublin, Jul 19, 2007 / 10:42 am (CNA).- Religions celebrations for St. Patrick’s Day will come two days [...]

The Mashup book is being translated into German!
My resume has been updated to say “international author who’s books have been published into many languages.” And by “many” I mean two – English and German. Three languages if you count the British English version for sale in Canada, U.K., and Canada.
I am confident that [...]

Say what you want about Pat Buchannan, but I’ve always admired his honesty and adherance to Conservative ideals.
“The jobs are never coming back, the illegals are never going home, but we’re gonna have a lot more wars.”
-Pat Buchanan on John McCain

Jack: man, if u can’t figure something out in a few web pages, it’s just too complicated to be worth it
Shu Chow: I agree
Shu Chow: And the same holds true if you have to scroll for more than two screens on its wikipedia page.
Jack: yeah

There’s a Dodger post-game show on KABC Radio in Los Angeles. This new guy, Josh Suchon, is hosting it. A quick Google search of Josh Suchon reveals that he wrote a ridiculously masterabatory book on Barry Bonds:
Josh Suchon, the Giants’ beat writer for the Oakland Tribune, has a unique behind-closed-door access to Bonds [...]