Failing again. Failing better.
Yesterday I noticed that my unique visitors and page views had skyrocketed over the past few days. Great, right? Well, no, not exactly. The numbers were falsely inflated due to some double counting. It also meant a big influx of spam. It looks like the heart of the matter was the Facebook “Send” button at…
I’ll confess: I was that guy in high school–the one who looked forward to reading Shakespeare. Phew, it feels good to get that off my chest. I know Shakespeare isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s fine. You don’t have to read it. But are you a nerd–I’m talking classic, nerd 1.0 variety here (i.e.,…
A friend of mine (thanks, Ryan!) sent me this link in which Condoleeza Rice recalls an incident weeks after September 11, 2001 during which she was accompanying then-President George W. Bush to an APEC summit in China as his then-National Security Advisor. While in Shanghai, then-Vice President Richard Cheney informed Bush and his advisors that…
Today, November 1, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) begins. Writers everywhere are busy signing up to write 50,000 words over the course of 30 days (or 1,667 words per day). Many novels that began as NaNoWriMo projects have gone to be published (see a list here). Many writers will sit down and write every day.…
I recently went to Phoenix and Sedona, Arizona with my wife and in-laws. It was a great, albeit brief, trip. Here are some photos. We arrived Tuesday evening, so there wasn’t much time for sightseeing, other than from our balcony: The next day we had beautiful weather, so we decided to have a little fun.…