Alec

I spent today hanging out with Alec, doing some shopping and spending far too much time in the reality distortion field of his new MacBook Air. (Kathy has one too, with the SSD option.) I must confess: I desire one deeply. Very, very deeply. If I can just figure out what to do with my…

Alec blogs about the girl who overdosed on seven double espressos, and writes, “Nowadays I have a hard stop, and move to decaf after a max of four singles.” Hmm. My normal breakfast begins with a quad espresso macchiato, which is just over 300 mg. caffeine. I frequently have another quad EM later in the…

Here I am, celebrating my first year of working at Amazon and living in Seattle, and feeling thoroughly acclimatized here ((As you can see, I’ve even changed my blog pic from the Boston skyline to the Seattle waterfront)), and then Alec goes and posts a little blog entry that makes me all homesick for England.…

Security Alert! If you buy online from Apple, check your e-mail carefully…. You have been warned.

It was a good weekend. On Saturday, I visited Lorna in hospital, then headed off to spend a few hours shopping in Oxford. As I was leaving the hospital, I checked my cell-phone, and saw that I’d missed a call from a UK number. I called back, and found that it was from Jeff Lower.…

The media has been all a-twitter about a new report entitled Extensive usage of ‘Web 2.0’ sites opens new business data leakage risks. My first thought was “WTF does this have to do with Web 2.0?” (And of course my second thought was “Oh no, here with go with that stupid Web 2.0 meme again…”)…

Belatedly following Alec, I’ve posted some of my photos from my recent trip to the UK. There are rather a lot of “views from a train window” which capture an utterly typical (but not particularly photogenic) view of England. Oh, well. I particularly enjoy the shots I took in the Covered Market in Oxford with…

Alec has been doing the email equivalent of dumpster diving, and the result is this delightful piece, covering the launch of www.sun.com and the attempts by Sun IT to beat back the rise of WWW traffic. It all seems so terribly quaint, doesn’t it?

I had planned to spent this morning on a bunch of housekeeping chores that I’ve been putting off. So much for good intentions…. While I was having my first cup of coffee and checking my email, I “accidentally” found myself unwrapping a DVD that had just arrived from Alec, and slipping it into the conveniently-placed…

Here‘s the latest podcast from Alec. (536KB MP3, 2:16) You know that he’s glad to be in an English hospital when he inadvertently refers to it as a “hotel”, right? It sounds as if his leg is in a brace rather than a cast, which is good: there’s nothing more miserable than a plaster cast…