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After more than six weeks of me not drinking any Diet Coke, Niki’s cousin is visiting and we have a case of very attractive cans in our kitchen. I’ll let you know how it goes… Update: There are like four frosty cold cans of Diet Coke in our refrigerator this morning. None in the basement whereContinue reading “Diet Coke in the house”

Before I turned four, I spent a bunch of time at Virginia Tech and have lots of memories of Blacksburg. My mom used to take me for sundaes in nearby Roanoke. I remember a little girl named Tabitha who lived in our neighborhood who had the same birthday as me. I have a pretty vividContinue reading “Virginia Tech memories”

Our Weblogs GM Judith Meskill is leaving. Today we’re having some Weblogs sales meetings in NYC and tonight we’re taking her out for a farewell dinner. It has been a roller coaster ride recently for me at AOL. Losing Judith is definitely a low. Meetings with the new AOL Platforms boss Ted Cahall and theContinue reading “If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower”

The Boston Marathon takes place today and one of the official participants will be running the marathon from space, astronaut Suni Williams. I’m sure it’s a lot of work to run a marathon even when you’re weightless and I am happy to report that they are not counting the space station’s own orbiting into her distance. I can’tContinue reading “Force equals the gravitational constant times Boston mass”

Some of you have known for a while that I’m on my way out, but to others it’s likely to be a surprise. Is it because they are prepping the company so they can sell it to Microsoft? No. Is it because all of the management who paid attention to you and respected your business and your teamContinue reading “Why I am leaving AOL”

Jack and I played in the backyard for an hour two days ago. Our backyard was covered in a foot of snow with a layer of hard frozen snow on top. Jack walked across it with no trouble, but most of the time when I took a step my foot went through. Jack played onContinue reading “Having a blast with Jack”

Twitter is this crazy new service for teenage girls that let’s them update their friends all day long so everyone knows what everyone else is doing. It’s like the status message on your IM client, but instead of changing between “Idle” and “Away” and “Online” you can tell your friends that you are “going shopping,” “gettingContinue reading “Putting the twit in Twitter”

If a store has a big international cheese section, I usually poke around and look for my favorite Norwegian cheese, Nökkelost. It’s a light yellow cow’s milk cheese with caraway seeds in it. Sadly, the most popular Norwegian cheese is Gjetost, a nasty medium brown goat’s milk cheese. My mom was trying to get me toContinue reading “C’est cheese”

So I’m no longer a comic book convention virgin. (Hmm, there’s got to be a joke in that line somewhere. Maybe it’s too obvious.) NYCC was a blast — the perfect way to spend a weekend while your family is out of town. I got to cross three more comic giants off of my listContinue reading “Conventional wisdom”

This weekend I got to meet a bunch of my comic creator heroes at the New York Comic Con. It all started with me saying a quick hi to Stan Lee in the hallway where he was heading to audition a dozen new costumed heroes for his upcoming round of Who Wants To Be a Superhero? SinceContinue reading “Meeting comics legends”