The Diatribe * net

Holy Moly! We just experienced our first earthquake. It registered a 5.6 and was located about 15 miles East of where we live. The house was swaying — very surreal feeling — and Bogart didn’t even know what was going on. I recall a story The Captain once told me about hearing pebbles and rocks [...]

You know it, the Red Sox are the 2007 World Series Champions! The Rockies (or Rookies as I’ve been calling them) looked weak throughout the entire series. Whether it was the 8 days off, or if it was just a fluke that they came up big at the end of the season is beyond me. [...]

Just when you thought the sox were out — they pull you back in. While I dislike the continual references to the 2004 ALCS, which was a much more amazing comeback (4 straight against their arch rival) and much more satisfying, I’m glad to see that the Sox pulled it off. I wasn’t nearly as [...]

David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done will be conducting a tech talk today at Google followed by a 1 hour tips & tricks session. Who’s excited?

’nuff said.

As part of Blog Action Day, I wanted to take a moment to talk about carbon credits. Just this past weekend, my friend Jeremy came to visit from Rochester and did the environmental thing of buying carbon credits to offset the carbon emissions generated by his individual air travel. Miss Possible and I have toiled [...]

I have to thank my co-workers Becca and Heba for getting me to sign up for Facebook late last year while we were working in what we lovingly call “the dungeon.” I never really paid much attention to my Facebook profile, but I realized instantly that I liked it more than MySpace. Over the past several [...]