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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Edwards dropped out of the race to get VP nod?
I’m definitely no political junky, and I’ve definitely watched too mutch [West Wing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_West_Wing) but something hit me while watching an [Onion TivoCast](http://www.theonion.com) about John Edwards in New Hampshire. (Okay my Tivo watchlist has a tendency to pile up, so sue … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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Worst. Name. Ever.
Worst. Name. Ever. From a project <a href="http://zellyn.com">Zellyn</a> worked on at the AJC.
Posted in Blogmarks
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Journalism job description tag clouds
A colleague of mine, (whom may or may not remember me from my [Dow Jones Online Internship](http://indystar.com)), [Eric Ulken](http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html) built a tag cloud of [keywords in postings to journalismjobs.com](http://ulken.com/blog/archive/000145.html). Not surprisingly, “blogs”, “interactive”, “flash” and “graphics” top the list — … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Python
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Urban renewal for data ghettos
So, I gather that in newsrooms it’s become [fashionable](http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/) to [put](http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-main-page/) [public](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=LOCAL08) [records](http://www.azcentral.com/datacenter/) [online](http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=data). I totally love the term that [Matt Waite](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/) coined — calling them [data ghettos](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/): > But if you take a step into one of the databases … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Journalism, Programming
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Mail.app and Gmail performance boost
So I’m loving that [Gmail](http://gmail.com) finally got IMAP as a feature. It makes the [iPhone](http://apple.com/iphone) experience soooo much better and it is nice to be able to read my mail in a desktop app at work and at home. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged gmail, imap, mail.app, performance, tip
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