BLADAM - January 2005

DISCLAIMER: This is my personal blog. The blatherings here aren't (necessarily) the views of the current company I work for, companies I've previously blessed with my presence, my loving parents, the Illuminati, or anyone other than me, me, me!

A wonderful Google quote from Danny Sullivan

"Yahoo says, 'Where is the mountain? Let's climb it,"' Sullivan said. "Google says, 'Maybe we want to go up the mountain, and maybe we want to go surfing."'

- Search Engine Meister Danny Sullivan, quoted by Saul Hansell in this New York Times article

IMHO, there's something to be said about both approaches and attitudes. And personally, I know a mix of hardworking and fun-loving people at both companies.

How's that for non-commital? :D

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 18:03 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Google
- Commented on by one person so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

“Eating Right” is Eating Wrong… and other nutritional tidbits

Not sure how many of you have the Safeway supermarket chain where you live, but for those who do, here's a major warning: Stear clear of their store brand "Eating Right" frozen dinners.
- They taste simply awful.
- They have a ton of crap in them nutritionally that make them anything but "Right" for your body.

And regardless of what supermarkets you have, let me offer you a short and pretty solid list of what you should look for when food shopping:

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- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 14:30 Permalink
- Filed under Happy body • Food and nutrition
- Commented on by 85 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Feed Fabulosity (Atom, RSS, Full, Summary… oh boy!)

I'm at least temporarily offering both summary full feeds via FeedBurner... which delivers Atom, RSS, whatever your newsreader likes

. Just look on over at the lefthand-side of any BLADAM page for the links.

Since I do like people to actually visit my site, however (for both selfish and unselfish reasons) I'm debating on whether to keep the full feed or perhaps just run with the summary feed in a bit.

If you have any strong opinions -- heck, ANY opinions (:cough: comment whore :cough

-- please speak below or forever hold your peace.

Or is it piece. I never did figure that out...

Argh. Blasted late night foggy ramblings

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, January 30, 2005 at 4:58 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Blogging
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

What the…?!—entertaining and strange photos from yours truly :)

After a bit of somewhat heavy, angsty musings, I figure it's a fine time for some photographic frivolity

Check out the 90 second slideshow of some weird, wacky, and wonderful photos I've taken and posted on Flickr.

Note that you can click on any photo during the slideshow to see a larger version and more details, and you can still pick up right where you left off.

- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 16:44 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness • Photography
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Got business aspirations? Neuter your blog or suffer the consequences.

What would you think if you saw a blog from Bill Gates or Carly Fiorina or Sergey Brin or even your boss with musings about their personal life... fears, hopes, dreams, quirky friendships, frustrations, and so on?

You'd gawk, of course. And then you would -- along with, perhaps, the press -- freak out. "Wow, what a weirdo. Why's [such and such powerful person] writing about their personal life?"

Real (serious) businessmen and businesswomen, after all, admit no vulnerabilities. They're not even really human, except in limited, PR-approved ways. Indeed, it's okay for angsty teens or coding geeks or others to ramble about life, love, liberty and other personal stuff, but whoa unto the current or future business leader who dares tread into the realm of personal disclosure online.

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- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 29, 2005 at 15:51 Permalink
- Filed under About my sites • Geekery • Blogging • Personal
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

I said no to a Goddess

I am so angry at myself.

There are a million and one reasons why I went to a blues dancing practica tonight and only danced one song... but none of them are compelling or rational reasons.

Worse yet was my assedness (is that a word?) towards the later part of the night.

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- Blathered by Adam on Friday, January 28, 2005 at 23:27 Permalink
- Filed under Dancing • Personal
- Commented on by one person so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

One salesman that ain’t getting promoted any time soon

A phone call to me a few moments ago went like this:

SALESGUY: "Adam... on [name] street?"
ME: "Yep, that's me."
SALESGUY: "I'm calling about your Forbes Magazine subscription. Are you currently receiving this magazine at your address?"
ME: "Nope, and I really don't have any interest in it."
SALESGUY: "I sure don't blame you. Thanks, and have a good day."

- Blathered by Adam on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 13:35 Permalink
- Filed under Grab bag • Wackiness
- Commented on by one person so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Today I have rediscovered my music.

Once upon a time, I wrote a lot of music.

It is time for me to start composing again, but the first task, I figure, is rediscovering some of my long, mostly-lost past.

And -- for whatever reason -- I've decided to drag you with me. Perhaps akin to an actor thinking that people care about his or her political views, you can classify me as a blogger who thinks people care about his music. So be it.

But no matter. Here is a sampling of my music compositions and performances. The original copies of all of these recordings have long since been accidentally erased or damaged, unfortunately, and I don't have any copies of my hundreds of classical and jazz piano performances. Maybe someday.

Anyway, feel free to drop a comment here or contact me privately to share which tidbits you particularly enjoy and would like to see me expand upon.

Thanks for listening

- Blathered by Adam on Saturday, January 22, 2005 at 15:15 Permalink
- Filed under Arts and entertainment • Personal
- Commented on by no one yet. Bummer. Check out the full entry page to leave a comment or trackback!

Once again, the battle against spam results in high collateral damage

Google has announced that they've added a special "no-follow" tag option for links that is intended to curb comment spam. What is comment spam? It's the disgusting -- often pornographic -- crap that lowlife spammers spew in blog comments so that Google will perceive their sites as 'more important'. After all, Google Page Rank is partly dependent upon how many sites "link" to another site, even if that link is added by a spammer. The new no-follow tag is designed to thwart that incentive by telling the googlebot "Hey, this link wasn't added by the Webmaster... so don't interpret it as a popular vote for that other site."

Other search engines, including Yahoo and MSN, have quickly decided to support this new tag. And I believe all of their intentions are good. Unfortunately, I think that this is a bad solution.

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- Blathered by Adam on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 at 10:26 Permalink
- Filed under Geekery • Blogging • Google
- Commented on by 3 folks so far. Visit the full entry page and join in!

Overheard

Overheard while shopping at Costco:

Elderly man: "How many times did I tell you to bring the cart?"
His wife: "I didn't hear you. Sometimes you get turned off, Bob."

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, January 16, 2005 at 11:44 Permalink
- Filed under People and relationships
- Commented on by no one yet. Bummer. Check out the full entry page to leave a comment or trackback!

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