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The amazing sliding launch date (Thursday, 03 January 2008 12:05 PM ): slip/sliding wheeee! Originally uploaded by smile4camera January has started with a flurry of work activity for me, so the much-anticipated launch of the new My Brilliant Mistakes will have to wait until next week. If you've been over to...

Month Impossible: Day Seventeen, 2PointHome (Saturday, 17 November 2007 11:56 PM ): If you've been following my Month of Challenges, you know that today I planned to finally catch up on NaNoWriMo. You also probably know me better than I do, and guessed that I would not succeed in this plan. I...

Sazarac (Saturday, 18 November 2006 09:59 PM ): Saturday night in Boston, and I'm too tuckered to take advantage of it. Between late night discussions the last two nights and early morning start times each day (OK, 9am, but it felt early), I'm worn thin. So I've...

Immersed in the environment (Saturday, 18 November 2006 01:53 PM ): Continuing my Cambridge/Boston nostalgia trip: I ate lunch at Legal Seafoods. When I was an undergrad, my parents were apparently concerned that I would not eat properly. So my dad gave me a credit card, and instructed me to eat...

Futures of entertainment (Friday, 17 November 2006 05:23 PM ): UPDATE: I rarely use the "extended entry" feature of my very old version of MovableType, so I didn't realize it was broken. The extended part of this post was out of reach because of the error, so I've pulled it...

Waiting for the controversy (Tuesday, 07 November 2006 08:50 PM ): I wish I'd thought ahead and had some of these made to hand out today....

iCouture (Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:15 AM ): There are limits to my brand loyalty.

iToaster (Thursday, 02 March 2006 12:11 AM ): Yesterday Apple Computer released a snazzy new product. It looks like this: Very clean and pretty, but what is it? A boom box, like the one I listened to nonstop from 1982 through 1985 (until I finally invested in a...

You like long walks on the beach too? (Tuesday, 26 October 2004 03:37 PM ): Another one of my entrepreneurial ideas has been taken: PersonalsTrainer offers to fix your personal ad so you sound more like you than you can manage yourself. However, the lead example offered on the home page is less than reassuring....

And now a word from our sponsor (Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:58 PM ): As you will have noticed, I have added advertisements to My Brilliant Mistakes. It's an experiment: I'm curious whether any revenue will result. But I find I'm now more interested to see what ads Google selects to display. As they...

Available just in time for my birthday (Wednesday, 26 May 2004 10:24 AM ): Smaller is better, or at least it will be when it's available this fall: the oqo ultra-personal computer. Yum....

Will Al Gore claim a share? (Thursday, 15 April 2004 04:00 PM ): The scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize....

Blogging is the new black (Tuesday, 06 April 2004 10:06 AM ): Rick E. Bruner reviews the latest research on bloggers and blog readers and wonders why more advertisers have not jumped on the opportunities presented by weblogs: Super-popular blogger Glen Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, leaves his traffic logs open, where we can...

Whispering in the back of the room (Friday, 02 April 2004 12:06 PM ): Techie types have taken to messaging and blogging during presentations. Some presenters object to the practice, others support it. I don't see how anyone can block conference and meeting attendees from using messaging, and I don't see many good reasons...

The soothing chirp of a room full of pagers (Wednesday, 31 March 2004 09:15 PM ): Tomorrow night will not be a good night to have a computer or network problem in the Pittsburgh area, as it's the first Thursday of an even-numbered month, which means it's Geek Night. The Church Brew Works will be overrun...

We're number one! (Sunday, 21 March 2004 12:47 PM ): Exciting in a self-absorbed way: The Closkey.com site currently comes up first when one searches Google for "closkey." Number 1 of about 6,940 results! (The fact that the domain name is the search word probably has a lot to do...

Audio books for your iPod (Thursday, 18 March 2004 10:56 AM ): The Guardian Unlimited offers an overview of digital audio book sources. You've loaded your CDs in to your iPod, you've assembled playlists and discovered the joys of shuffle mode. But the first flush of gadget love is fading. What can...

Pittsburgh-area bloggers, unite! (Sunday, 14 March 2004 09:53 AM ): The Post-Gazette has a nice feature today on blogging in Pittsburgh. They explain blogging pretty well. They also mention several interesting local sites, although they fail to provide links to any of them. Fortunately, the article mentions Tube City Online...

How to, and why (Wednesday, 10 March 2004 10:08 AM ): I'd been thinking of creating a section for Closkey.com about how and why to create a weblog. It turns out that I don't need to, as the Guardian Online has already written one. Of particular interest are Rebecca Blood's comment...

The iPod Paradox (Friday, 27 February 2004 07:38 PM ): Izzy Grinspan in The Village Voice reflects on why a device that is most often used solo engenders feelings of community. I'm not ready to go swapping my little green buddy with anyone yet. I haven't had the chance to...

Curiouser and curiouser (Wednesday, 25 February 2004 09:41 AM ): Exactly the result I would hope for: My Book Quiz Match is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is one of my all-time favorite books. You're Alice's Adventures in Wonderland! by Lewis Carroll After stumbling down the wrong turn in life,...

Mine is on the FedEx truck on its way to my house right now! (Thursday, 19 February 2004 09:44 AM ): Apple Computer Inc. said on Tuesday it has received 100,000 orders for its iPod mini digital music player, which goes on sale on Friday at Apple's retail outlets, its online store and through resellers. I've been tracking the progress of...

If you can't post something nice, don't post anything at all (Tuesday, 17 February 2004 09:57 AM ): Here's an excellent, carefully thought and worded post on corporate blogging. I wasn't sure at first what "corporate blogging" might be, but it turns out to be blogging from a company standpoint (as opposed to an individual's standpoint). It's what...

Gaming the system (Saturday, 14 February 2004 04:12 PM ): A system error makes clear what everyone expected but couldn't demonstrate: Writers and their friends anonymously give their own works high reviews on Amazon. "Close observers of Amazon.com noticed something peculiar this week: the company's Canadian site had suddenly revealed...

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