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Niki and our favorite kennel owner Michael were extremely close. When she called the kennel this afternoon to check on our dogs, his assistant Alex said he had some really bad news. We never would have guessed that the news was that Michael died of a heart attack three days ago and that his funeralContinue reading “Michael Larizza”

“Drove downtown in the rain — nine-thirty on a Tuesday night, just to check out the late-night record shop. Call it impulsive. Call it compulsive. Call it insane. But when I’m surrounded I just can’t stop.” I love the Barenaked Ladies’ song Brian Wilson. It’s a song about suffering from a mental block of giant proportionsContinue reading “Fun, fun, fun”

I’ve got the television on, playing Flight 26. I’m switching between blogging, IMs with Niki about Celly’s vacuum cleaner, catching up on email, managing Google calendar and doing some accounting work. I can do any one of those things plus listen to Flight 26 at the same time since everything but listening to the radio station isContinue reading “Old school multi-tasking: walking and chewing gum”

Joe Girardi won baseball’s National League manager of the year award six weeks after he was fired. Since he’s an ex-Yankee (catcher, broadcaster and then bench coach) Niki and I were rooting for him as a manager. When he was let go, he reportedly called one of his mentors who comforted him by basically sayingContinue reading “One man’s failure is another man’s manager of the year”

Not the dude — the blog. I could have called this “Too much photo and not enough Matt,” but I do enough of that. Photomatt redesigned. His blog looks great. Next step: convince him to use Blogsmith. Seriously!

Wow. When Jason told me he was leaving AOL, I thought he was just canceling his dial-up account. I figured he would call up AOL and a skilled representative would talk him out of his decision and he would extend his subscription another year and maybe get some free bonus hours. Boy was I wrong: TechCrunch; NY Times; Jason’sContinue reading “More changes at AOL”

I read this review of the Kansas City Chiefs post-Zeldman redesign a while ago when it first came out, but I re-read it today to see all of the comments it got. The blogger slams the Chiefs for replacing a happy, valid, web standards design with one built on Flash and more nested tables than you couldContinue reading “Are you ready for some DOCTYPEs!”

It’s the afternoon and I probably have less to say on the CEO replacement news today than I did yesterday. Maybe that’s because I’ve answered so many people in email and IM. It’s the circle of life. I like Jon Miller and he seemed to like me. I told one person today that I wasn’tContinue reading “Changes at AOL”

Jason wrote a warm post about former AOL CEO Jon Miller, calling him a “quiet samurai” and a mentor. I’ll do something like that myself tomorrow. My cell phone and AIM have been ringing off the hook this evening since NBC’s Randy Falco was named the new CEO of AOL. I need to post something that gives theseContinue reading “AOL CEO AFK, TTFN”

Since the first story out there was that Valleywag one, I’ve gotten a bunch of email asking for the real Blogsmith details. Here goes: When Jason and I decided to create a blog network, I came up with two names: Weblogs, Inc. and Blogsmith. I registered both domains on the same day, June 15, 2003. “Weblogs, Inc.” summedContinue reading “AOL and Blogsmith”