My
brother Michael
died of sudden heart failure on August 24th, 2006. He is
survived by his wife, toddler son, and infant daughter.
In the popular press...
- New York Times article on
Web 3.0 highlights KnowItAll and Opine.
- New York Times feature
on Farecast
- Why I'm definitely not the next
Bill Gates...according to Washington
CEO Magazine
- A "Rainmaker"
in Seattle...not sure that's a compliment...
- The
"GodFather" of Search... then, upgraded to the Sultan
of Search by Seattle Business Monthly, aiming for
Emperor of Everything, next.
- KnowItAll
- KUOW's
Weekday on Google
- NBC
Nightly News segment on Hamlet (to
buy or not to buy, that is the question!), a data mining program
that
predicts price changes for airline tickets, or read the stories in Wired news,
Seattle
PI,
or BusinessWeek
- My New York
Times op-ed on fighting spam has generated some heated discussion,
but please see the original
essay, which is clearer. Finally, see a recent New
York Times article about folks who are "fighting spam with spam".
- Or listen to the NPR
Morning Edition segment which is shorter.
Some of my favorite musings:
Before
Enlightenment - chop wood, carry water;
after Enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
--- Old Zen saying
I can resist everything...except temptation --- Oscar Wilde
The best way to predict the future is to invent it---Alan Kay
The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.---William
Gibson
Imagination is more important
than knowledge --- Albert Einstein
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers --- Voltaire
...engage the impossible... --- Erik Larson
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as
my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how
to use my
telephone. --- Bjarne Stroustrup
I'm busier than a one-legged cowboy in an ass-kickin' contest ---
???
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it. --- Sydney J. Harris
Why blog when you can SPAM? --- yours truly, in the style of
Zippy the
Pinhead
I've been having a mid-life crisis for a long time. So long, in
fact, that my mid-life crisis is having a mid-life crisis. --- yours
truly
I used to have three theories about how to raise kids; now I have
three kids and no theories! --- my mom
Your children
are not your children,
They come through you but are not from you...
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
--- Selected lines from The Prophet
To seize the day,
find the sunset in the sunset
the laughter in the child
and
the child within yourself.
--- yours truly
If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings
be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads of little toddlers be
smashed with the butt of guns or be shoved into sacks and gassed to
death. --- Rutka Laskier, 1943 (the "Polish Anne Frank")
We shall not cease from exploration,
and the end
of all our exploring will be to arrive
where we started and know the place for the first time.
-T.S.Eliot
My father has published a thoughtful
treatise on a Muscular,
Moral Foreign Policy
I went to China in June, 2004 with my brother Ethan, and this is as close as I got to
the Great Wall. I did get
close to a Baby Panda, and learned
something about Chinese People. I also visited the Forbidden City, which was a bit
disappointing.
