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Ten years ago today, my aunt Nanette suggested that her friend Niki send me an email and flirt with me. We were both in dead-end relationships and she thought we’d get along great. We had the same birthday. We had similar senses of humor. We both loved Nanette. It was a great idea. We’ve beenContinue reading “A decade of Niki”

This is a great week. Every month our growing Weblogs, Inc. and Blogsmith teams converge at a hotel in New York for a few days and we work together around the clock to advance the platform, eat sushi, whiteboard, eat Candlelight, code, code, eat sushi and write more code. These trips have been described as “likeContinue reading “Captive developers”

We went to Florida for Thanksgiving and Niki visited relatives with the boys while I worked with Gavin on Blogsmith, getting it ready for Weblogs, Inc. It was a pretty good trip at the beginning. I got Gavin a PowerBook and he immediately fixed a bunch of things that didn’t work in Safari. The lastContinue reading “Man, I ain’t changed, but I know I ain’t the same”

Yesterday morning I called Jack to let him know that his little brother Victor was no longer inside mommy. At 9 pounds, he was nearly 50% larger than Jack and his delivery took only half the time. I think they call that Moore’s Law of Birthing. If we have another child, I am expecting thatContinue reading “Welcome to Earth”

Two days after Live8, there are a few songs I can’t get out of my head. Destiny’s Child’s “Survivor”, Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” and The Black Eyed Peas covering “Get Up, Stand Up” with a couple special guests. When they announced who was joining them, I missed the woman’s name and only heard them say StephenContinue reading “Echoes of Live8 and Bob Marley”

When we were walking back to our camp from the back of the library, we spied Don Cheadle heading to the back of the stage. Maybe he’s announcing some artist or making a short speech. As I was getting my picture taken with him, I told him that my wife gets tired of hearing meContinue reading “Don Cheadle and me”

I was lucky enough to see them do Survivor in Denver at the NBA all-star game and this was even more amazing. They did Survivor today. Then they did Say My Name and during that song the big screen behind them was showing the names of all of the people who signed up for Live8’sContinue reading “Destiny’s Child at Live8 Philly”

Over on Engadget Spanish, I noticed that our bloggers were letting their audience know that we’re still in beta and we’re working out some language-related kinks. Specifically, I’m making some changes to the platform so characters with accents don’t get eaten in title fields. One quick fix I made for the Spanish team broke the form for theContinue reading “All your tildes are belong to us”

Niki and Jack just got home from some children’s event at the library. Jack walked to the top of the basement stairs and pointed at my computer (with his thumb, his pointing finger of choice these days) and said something that took me a few seconds to make out. “Foo Fighters, Daddy.” Wow. Best Of You wasContinue reading “Put this one in Daddy’s scrapbook”

Nice article in MIT’s Technology Review magazine. It takes a look at the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN) as well as some of the Brian and Jason history leading up to it. The only facts that aren’t 100% accurate are that we started recruiting bloggers in early 2004 (it was September or October) and that we created SiliconContinue reading “Technology Review on WIN”