I thought this quote was interesting, "If you are in a big company, join a group that isn’t going to get cut.  Scott Guthrie’s group inside Microsoft, for instance, is a lot safer than lots of other groups."

Surviving the 2008 recession « Scobleizer

Logging into Google Reader today, I saw the below.

BTW:  I still can't believe we don't have something like Live Reader (I have asked internally and still I am not sure why we don't have one, but MSFT is so big, I bet someone is working on it).

My favorite band, back together again...

Led Zeppelin: The Full Report From David Fricke : Rolling Stone

Hmm...

This is cool.

Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code

Here's one of boyd's examples, a true story: a young woman, an elementary school teacher, joins Friendster after some of her Burning Man buddies send her an invite. All is well until her students sign up and notice that all the friends in her profile are sunburnt, drug-addled techno-pagans whose own profiles are adorned with digital photos of their painted genitals flapping over the Playa. The teacher inveigles her friends to clean up their profiles, and all is well again until her boss, the school principal, signs up to the service and demands to be added to her friends list. The fact that she doesn't like her boss doesn't really matter: in the social world of Friendster and its progeny, it's perfectly valid to demand to be "friended" in an explicit fashion that most of us left behind in the fourth grade. Now that her boss is on her friends list, our teacher-friend's buddies naturally assume that she is one of the tribe and begin to send her lascivious Friendster-grams, inviting her to all sorts of dirty funtimes.

InformationWeek

Mine just died.

Turned it off after around two months of constant used.

Waited 10 seconds.

Turned it back on.

Kernel doesn't load.

I tried everything on the Web to get it going again.

Good thing for external USB backups.

Buffalo Technology - Products - TeraStation Pro™ II

I just got done running the Seattle Half Marathon.

13.1 miles of pure goodness.

I forgot my timing chip at home, so I decided to run it nice and slow.

Besides, I really didn't train at all -- I think I did one long run of 10 miles about 6 weeks ago.

I saw some of the trainers from the ProClub about halfway in -- they signed up for the walk, but decided run it.

This is my fourth half-marathon and likely my slowest (~2:20), but it was the funniest long run I have done in a some time.

I saw the below ads on my site today and just had to post them.

Reading this now.  I am very impressed.  I don't know why I haven't dived right into this before.

The Golden Bough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/187010572/

"Microsoft has quietly launched a competitor to Google Apps for your domain, Windows Live Community Builder."

I use Google App for Domain to get my douglasp.com email, etc.

I can't believe that I haven't heard about this yet...