I get a day off today, and if you don’t know why, that is too bad.
Still, it’s been a long year. I don’t want to rehash old times. Here’s a quick recap for those who missed 2008.
One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.
(via BG#1 aka DCBG aka many other things)
My parents came to visit this week and my father told me this cool story, which I will share with you. He’s a lawyer at a firm in DC called Robbins Russell currently working on a large and complex bankruptcy case. Specifically, his firm represents a group of creditors suing some other creditors on behalf [...]
Today I am working on my charitable donations, which I try to do about this time every year. “Try” here is nearly synonymous with “fail”. At the end of every year I sit down at my desk and I start thinking about donations, and I always get overwhelmed. Who should I give to? How much [...]
My friends always wonder what we Jews do on Christmas, and since I had a pretty standard Jewish Christmas yesterday, I thought I would tell you about it.
First rule of thumb: fly on Christmas day. The day has no special meaning for Jews, but for everyone else, Christmas is a time for family, not travel. [...]
I’m a fan of history, as most of you know. I found this picture, and thought I would share:
Like all thing on Ted, this video of Jill Bolte Taylor is so cool. In the video, the brain scientist describes having a stroke. I particularly like how she switches from describing the events scientifically and also as she felt them. She gets a little spiritual for me at the end, but then again I [...]
About 3 days after my prediction that better web creation software is on the way, I heard about Weebly, which claims to do just that. I poked around and it looks like the drag-and-drop interface is pretty intuitive. The site, aimed at non-technical users, lets you choose your own design, add content, and publish, all [...]
In publishing, printers often append a description of the technical details of their tools, which they call a colophon. Now that the site design has settled down a little (don’t tell me you didn’t notice each and every change?), I thought I would give a little credit.
In the top right corner you see that email [...]
Here are two facts, which each seem obvious and inconsequential at first glance
the longer you work at a place, the more you deserve a nice office
the longer you work at a place, the more meetings you have (1)
Let’s assume that a person’s meetings mostly don’t happen in his office, since at least 1 participant will not [...]
Argumentative writing
I miss formal writing, and I intend to do more of it.
I went to school for a long time and, while there, I wrote. I learned how to write a thesis and to put it at the beginning of the my paper. I learned to organize an argument, thereby organizing the argument in my head.
Blogs [...]