Here’s thrilling news–just got a note from Steve Covell that this blog is in the top 10 list of blogspot-hosted blogs on Bloggerforum. Thanks! Note: Being the curious type, I just went to Google and did my own search for blogspot on the blogspot domain. I searched over the past 3 months, and this blog… Continue Reading

Madonna on Britney: “I see her as my little sister. She asks me career advice.”

According to this report, local Walmart executives called the sister of the Orange City, Florida woman who was knocked down and trampled at the start of a sale day at Walmart on Friday and told offered to put a $29 DVD player on hold for the injured woman. “We are very disappointed this happened,” Wal-Mart… Continue Reading

Vanessa Grigoriadis, who’s recently gone on staff at Rolling Stone, has written a definitive profile on Ms. Paris Hilton. Starting with the premise “What you think of Paris Hilton, what she thinks of herself and what she’s really like are three entities so separate and distinct that if they were people they wouldn’t end up… Continue Reading

Robert Scoble on the Great Mall in Milpitas, a Thanksgiving weekend stop for him (and one of the places where I shop, when I shop): “If you want to see the huge cultural and ethnic shifts going on in the valley, this is ground zero. 20 years ago Milpitas was mostly white, with some hispanic,… Continue Reading

Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe: “Consider Google’s acquisition of Blogger, one of the companies that launched the personal weblog craze. It’s got Dave Winer climbing the walls. Winer, a Berkman Fellow at the Harvard Law School, founded UserLand Software Inc., maker of the blogging program Radio Userland. Winer says that Google may crush rival blogging systems… Continue Reading

Took the dog out for a walk at what turned out to be an unofficial hobo camp squeezed between the San Jose Municipal Golf Course and an industrial park, then headed home, changed, and went to meet the gang at the Hickory Pit in Campbell. Even for those who do not partake of the flesh… Continue Reading

No one has mentioned Paris Hilton’s sex tape in at least 4 days, though more than one magazine editor has called her poor girl. This is all leading to a greart opening for her TV showon Dec 2nd.

We had a really nice evening, and the menu–mostly cooked by Spencer–was pronounced perfect. During the (lengthy) cleanup, I tossed the turkey carcass into a pot with onion, celery, and water and made turkey broth. This morning while I checked over online college applications for Zack, I also took a break and made turkey vegetable… Continue Reading

Safa Rashtchy of Piper Jaffrey predicts that online advertising revenues will sharply accelerate in coming years, to more than $15 billion by 2008. He also predicts that online ad revenues will match 2000’s number of $8.1 billion – the height of the boom – by next year. John Battelle says he’s wrong. I agree with… Continue Reading