Archive for September, 2008
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-09-06
@amyhoy Mazel tov! # Powered by Twitter Tools.
September 6th, 2008 by alephnaught
Studio City, Burbank and Bergamot Station
We drove over to Studio City and had lunch at Art’s Delicatessen & Restaurant on Ventura Blvd. The food was really good – it was nice to find a good deli here. We stopped in a small gift shop that’s going out of business and ended up buying a Piero Fornasetti self-portrait plate for $80; [...]
September 6th, 2008 by alephnaught
New York Times article on micro-blogging
There’s a long, pretty good article on micro-blogging today, Brave New World of Digital Intimacy (I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You). The article presents a reasonable short history along with some good psychology research related to micro-blogging.
September 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-09-05
Eating at Hooked On Fish (I’m not kidding) # We ate next door at a Japanese Steakhouse instead # Powered by Twitter Tools.
September 5th, 2008 by alephnaught
Competitive Strategy
Title: Competitive Strategy Author: Michael E. Porter Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Free Press (January 19, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743260880 ISBN-13: 978-0743260886 I found this book used at Op Amp Bookstore in Los Angeles. I figured this would be a good one to read, as it should help connect some of my IT strategy thoughts [...]
September 4th, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-09-04
@Chaler I wonder if Sarah Palin would want rights read to her or her children if they were arrested – its all rhetoric, all a waste # Powered by Twitter Tools.
September 3rd, 2008 by alephnaught
Daedalus’s Children: Part Two of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Title: Daedalus’s Children: Part Two of Two (Star Trek: Enterprise) Author: Dave Stern Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Star Trek (April 27, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743476468 ISBN-13: 978-0743476461 This is part two of a two part series (my short review of part one is here). This wraps up the alternate universe adventure nicely. [...]
September 2nd, 2008 by alephnaught
Tweets from purplehayz on 2008-09-02
I won the award for my toastmasters speech today (I still think the other person did better) # Powered by Twitter Tools.
September 2nd, 2008 by alephnaught
Toastmasters award
I won best speech of the day at Toastmasters today – here’s a picture I took of me and the award: My speech, the second in the Toastmasters series, was on the differences in cultures between Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands.
September 1st, 2008 by alephnaught
Frozen River
We just got back from seeing the movie “Frozen River” which stars Melissa Leo. Ms Leo was a star of one of our favorite TV series of all time, “Homicide: Life on the Street.” The movie involves a woman whose trying to get a real house after her husband runs off; he’s a former gambling [...]
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September 6th, 2008 by alephnaught