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Dec 21

Tweeting my Christmas letter

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It is the season where you actually get snail mail other than bills that don’t let you say “only electronic please”, and junk coupons for crap you don’t need. The thought of doing a holiday letter didn’t do anything for me this year. The only people that don’t know what I have been up to at a high level…. well…. if they don’t know, why do we care so much to tell them? They are the people we never see!

What would be a more modern holiday letter? I was going to do a video montage of the years events, but that is going to be too much work for now. Maybe a roundup of my blog posts? So 2006.

I know. A dump of my tweets! They are a little sporadic, as there were times where I came and went from Twitter, but this surely tells you what kind of year I had:

December

  • I am tempted to create a web based Wii game called “The Wee Game” that involves urination. The more you drink, the harder it is to aim? about 10 hours ago
  • @tobiaspeggs your mouth feels like Ghandi’s flip flops huh 03:21 PM December 19, 2007
  • Ning has got some really nice offices. Oh, and the people are nice too. Catching up with BrianM was a lot of fun. 02:59 PM December 19, 2007
  • “Standards are the a key foundation for innovation”. I think you can at least take out the “the” :) 02:35 PM December 19, 2007
  • It was fun walking through passport control and having the guy look at my “viva la stewart” t-shirt and think it was Che. Then he laughed. 11:19 AM December 19, 2007
  • Feeling some partners http://tinyurl.com/2gweb2 02:03 PM December 18, 2007
  • I love hearing the first thing that comes out of Sam’s mouth in the morning. This morning = “Green dinosaur cookie?” (he had one yesterday). 04:27 PM December 17, 2007
  • Should Twitter change: “Foo Bar is twittering: …” to “Foo Bar twitters: …” or twittered. Or, just get rid of the thing! 04:07 PM December 17, 2007
  • It is fun watching people on FB not quite learning that the ‘is’ is gone yet. “Bob total git” 03:27 PM December 17, 2007
  • It looks like Salesforce is going to announce something big in January. The platform keeps growing. 01:38 PM December 17, 2007
  • It is strange to look at LinkedIn and see “people who have looked at your profile”, and know based on the metadata that your exgf is looking 01:17 PM December 17, 2007
  • I hate it when you have a 7 letter word with nowhere to put it on Scrabulous. It makes me not want to go :) 10:59 AM December 17, 2007
  • “After using AS3 going back to JavaScript just seems so hacky. I don’t get the joy.” Poor Ryan. Butch up my friend, and Functional zen time. 09:21 AM December 17, 2007
  • Extras was more sad and painful than funny, although not in a bad way. It felt very similar to Ben Elton’s Dead Famous showing we r screwed. 08:49 AM December 17, 2007
  • can’t wait to see the Extra special xmas season finale on HBO tonight! 07:29 PM December 16, 2007
  • I have been asked to become a birth videographer (HD of course). 07:28 PM December 16, 2007
  • going to be a lot happier when GWT-Ext supports Ext 2.0 03:35 PM December 13, 2007
  • drinking an “Atlassian” belgium beer, watching the Posse 06:38 AM December 13, 2007
  • It is funny to read between the lines as Tim talks around Android and Eclipse 02:45 AM December 13, 2007
  • Oh man, I really dislike SYS-CON. They are so greasy. 01:34 PM December 12, 2007
  • The “2G Experience”? That sounds like a legacy mobile conference. 09:25 AM December 11, 2007
  • Did Microsoft really use the term “browser remodulating” in their Volta docs? Wow. 11:02 AM December 10, 2007
  • When everyone buys, you sell. Maybe I should create a product that goes out of its way to be “closed”. A “Proud to be closed” button, etc et 10:04 AM December 06, 2007
  • Go on, make a chart http://tinyurl.com/ypb583 09:39 AM December 06, 2007
  • Many remote Googlers seem to be flying to Mountain View at this time of year… I am sure it isn’t the weather ;) 02:20 PM December 05, 2007
  • @ryanstewart with the OAuth spec you will get some nice sleep on the flight ;) 02:18 PM December 05, 2007in reply to ryanstewart
  • launching the new Google Mac open source page http://urltea.com/2aeg 08:34 PM December 04, 2007
  • so happy that the Spice Girls are back in business and wishes he could have gone to their first concert today 12:19 PM December 03, 2007

November

  • checking the new nasa.gov Web 2.0 relaunch 11:04 PM November 30, 2007
  • Ads in PDF too? (http://online.wsj.com/publi…) 11:08 PM November 28, 2007
  • getting high school kids to write open source code (http://urltea.com/27vb 11:15 PM November 27, 2007
  • getting high school kids to write open source code 05:12 PM November 27, 2007
  • finally back in the office with a huge sleep deficit 08:42 AM November 27, 2007
  • talking to the new Almaer’s that we found in Belgium. I am known as the “ubiquitous” one since I have a few hits on Google 12:59 PM November 23, 2007
  • sad that Soccer A.M. just isn’t the same, even with an Essex boy. 01:50 AM November 17, 2007
  • building a microformat for transcriptions 02:51 PM November 15, 2007
  • going to visit Danny boy as he tries to woo the California babes with his Anglo-Israeli accent 02:11 PM November 14, 2007
  • hosting Steve Souders of Yahoo! as he gives a tech talk at Google. 03:10 PM November 13, 2007
  • pricing out a trip to Dalvik 10:18 AM November 13, 2007
  • wondering if he could create an application for Android that is so good that it wins the entire $10 million dollar fund? :) 09:16 AM November 12, 2007
  • devphone.com 03:28 AM November 12, 2007
  • editing a video of Joe 10:54 PM November 11, 2007
  • getting DOS’d by 202.75.33.249 (deny from 202.75.33.249) 12:54 PM November 10, 2007
  • putting the finishing touches on devphone.com. 12:22 PM November 10, 2007
  • laughing at how Emily Almaer is being recruited by Microsoft. 08:40 AM November 09, 2007
  • impressed at how classy the dreamforce team is 04:26 PM November 08, 2007
  • impressed at how classy the dreamforce team is. 03:11 PM November 08, 2007
  • walking like an open, social, Android with well oiled Gears. 12:45 PM November 07, 2007
  • is well aware that y = mx + c is much better than y = mx + b. I mean. _C_onstant. 09:00 PM November 06, 2007
  • enjoying Opera 9.5 alpha. Man it is fast. 02:07 PM November 06, 2007
  • sure that he has travelled too much when he thought that his 4 hour flight today felt like it went by too quickly 11:28 PM November 05, 2007
  • amazing how good Sam was travelling today, even with United trying their hardest 09:40 PM November 05, 2007
  • finally back in San Francisco 08:26 PM November 05, 2007
  • excited about Android, but wants the SDK to get out right away! I guess November 12th is soon ;) 10:44 AM November 05, 2007
  • watching his sister-in-law have make up texts with her new iPhone 08:36 PM November 04, 2007
  • using one of his three Gillete Mach Super Power Fusions razors. 3 at 3 locations so he doesn’t have to travel with them 10:45 PM November 03, 2007
  • using the convenient madisonpay.com to pay for his “citation” 09:46 PM November 02, 2007
  • watching his car get towed. 03:20 PM November 02, 2007
  • OpenlySocial 11:49 PM November 01, 2007

October

  • wondering if it is bad that the earth moved for my wife last night yet I didn’t feel a thing ;) 09:11 PM October 31, 2007
  • sitting through his first earthquake without apparantely noticing it. 10:18 PM October 30, 2007
  • looking forward to taking Sam to the Google Halloween party for kids! 03:02 PM October 30, 2007
  • is surprised that Spaces doesn’t allow him to set different backgrounds for each space. Are you kidding me? 02:58 PM October 29, 2007
  • wish he could play the harmonica as well as Vader (http://urltea.com/1×6h?yt 10:27 AM October 29, 2007
  • realising that Cover Flow for directories can sometimes feel like old school voice mail. Give me back random access! 07:25 PM October 28, 2007
  • finishing up the last day of The Ajax Experience, and flying home to a Leopard 09:13 AM October 26, 2007
  • is researching YouTube videos for tomorrow morning 07:35 PM October 25, 2007
  • watching Stu refactotum his JavaScript 06:21 AM October 25, 2007
  • is experiencing Ajax. 06:36 PM October 24, 2007
  • looking forward to Alex and Joe give their keynote tonite at TAE 11:42 AM October 24, 2007
  • interested in watching Stu make fun of peoples JavaScript code in his Refactoring talk 11:22 AM October 24, 2007
  • listening to the CTO of MapQuest talking about how beta.mapquest.com uses Dojo and DWR 07:01 AM October 24, 2007
  • hanging in the Seaport hotel (The Ajax Experience) with a fixed AC vent in the room… finally 07:59 PM October 23, 2007
  • is amazed to see a dog in a diaper, and then watching someone change it. 12:09 PM October 23, 2007
  • feeling pretty sad for anyone who has to play Scrabalous in “practice mode” (aka no friends mode) 09:07 PM October 22, 2007
  • wondering how many people watching poker on ESPN actually buy the “Faith based music” in the commercial breaks. 08:40 PM October 22, 2007
  • not a fan of how Twitter seems to have just added “twittering: ” to its Facebook updates, which is getting annoying 08:19 PM October 22, 2007
  • hoping that “API in a box” parody that he showed in his talk didn’t offend anyone! 03:35 PM October 22, 2007
  • done with his first talk, and is already hoarse. I also was made to sweat as my machine tanked 10 minuts before the presentation! 11:16 AM October 22, 2007
  • heading to the conference center to speak at the Colorado Software Summit 07:30 AM October 22, 2007
  • in Denver for a few days before going to Boston looking forward to Red Sox vs. Rockies 08:58 PM October 21, 2007
  • in Denver, looking forward to Red Sox vs. Rockies 08:57 PM October 21, 2007
  • never one to enjoy having to drive in the I-70 blizzard. Thank god I made it. 08:24 PM October 21, 2007
  • waiting to fly to Colorado from SFO… into the snow! 11:59 AM October 21, 2007
  • hoping that England can stay close, and that Jonny gets the ball at the end. 01:01 PM October 20, 2007
  • starting to worry about his body clock. 02:19 AM October 20, 2007
  • running to Fry’s to get a darn power supply 03:19 PM October 19, 2007
  • waiting on testing for a new release to go out. 11:46 AM October 19, 2007
  • is in a meeting at Google about TAE, which is kinda funny 09:52 AM October 19, 2007
  • reading a politically correct feminist nursery rythmes book. “all of the women and all of the men, happily put humpty together again” 09:00 AM October 17, 2007
  • finally cancelled his TiVo account. If HD was cheaper they would have a chance… 02:46 PM October 15, 2007
  • talking to a chick who just had a dream about Gears. We won! 09:15 AM October 15, 2007
  • finding pictures with hot women and where you can’t see the guy… and then tags the guy as a friend to get them in trouble! 03:03 PM October 12, 2007
  • done recording a kiwi on the set of a Tiki Bar with a US flag 01:59 PM October 12, 2007
  • in a YouTube war with Madeline. 11:21 AM October 12, 2007
  • watching Ajax and OSGi combine 10:40 AM October 12, 2007
  • flipped through the newly Rails-ed pragprog.com 09:11 AM October 12, 2007
  • creating lots of tasks whilst being offline 04:53 PM October 11, 2007
  • stopping his form from submitting. 03:55 PM October 11, 2007
  • wishes the database would tell him the it doesn’t support BOOL when table creation happens 02:47 PM October 11, 2007
  • remembering that htmlspecialchars() is a good thing. 11:48 AM October 11, 2007
  • loving how noone knows how the link tag works for CSS and wonders why they didn’t just <style src=”…”> instead! 09:39 AM October 11, 2007
  • “John Resig removed “perl” from his interests.” Mwhahaha 10:28 AM October 08, 2007
  • Considerate of Paul Graham to tell a London crowd that you have to be in Silicon Valley (http://www.paulgraham.com/w…) 09:35 AM October 04, 2007
  • going even more “meta” with http://friendfeed.com/dion 10:35 AM October 01, 2007 from Facebook
  • @tobiaspeggs want to take the jacket to get a gorgeous curry? ;) 10:33 AM October 01, 2007 from Facebook in reply to tobiaspeggs

September

  • “for the @ hold ctrl+alt+2″ | good ole european keyboards. at least ¤ and æ are easy 02:06 AM September 13, 2007
  • Wondering if there will be another squating avenue via Facebook application URLs (names are not unique… but URLs). 01:15 PM September 06, 2007

August

  • is looking for Face ‘IM 11:28 AM August 28, 2007
  • looking Face ‘IM 11:22 AM August 28, 2007
  • chorttling at an email with: “Subject: OpenAjax Alliance: A Remarkable First Year” 12:54 PM August 27, 2007
  • changing his mind… maybe this week it will be AJAX. It’s cool to change it whenever I feel like it right? 11:48 AM August 24, 2007
  • changing his stock ticker to RUBY. 11:23 AM August 24, 2007
  • still laughing at the SUNW -> JAVA conversion. 03:27 PM August 23, 2007
  • uploading more videos to youtube.com/googledevelopers 02:57 PM August 23, 2007
  • heading over to the Zoho offices to chat about Gearing up. 01:44 PM August 22, 2007
  • making a promise to himself that his meeting schedule is usable in a multi-week view! 02:43 PM August 21, 2007
  • checking out Zoho offline 10:29 AM August 21, 2007
  • using MoodBlast to set my status all over the shop! 09:17 AM August 20, 2007
  • noticing that having a cigar with your kids around isn’t so cool. 09:38 PM August 19, 2007
  • Using moodswing to update all friggin status messages from QuickSilver. yay! 10:58 PM August 18, 2007
  • feeling moody 10:57 PM August 18, 2007
  • It is great to be able to order “movies” to Chambers bill :) 12:50 AM July 13, 2007

July

  • I love how 10 guys walk in with video equipment and get 3 rooms for 2 hours. They gave us a funny look. 11:21 PM July 12, 2007
  • It was so hot on the Vancouver rooftop that Mike D was sweating like a scouser in Dixons 12:04 AM July 12, 2007
  • “Which was the first application to use Ajax?” It was interesting to hear Gmail, Google Maps, Suggest instead of MS Outlook Web Access. 08:22 PM July 11, 2007
  • I wouldn’t like to see Adobe vs. Google in a Guitar Hero showdown. They breathe this stuff (although I have held my own… but only on mediu 08:21 PM July 11, 2007
  • Vancouver seems like a great city. I wish I could spend more time here. 05:35 PM July 11, 2007
  • building a porn application that uses the new onpinch event for the iPhone ;) 09:17 AM July 09, 2007
  • watching Aaron Boodman tinkering with Gearpad via his blog 08:37 PM July 07, 2007
  • enjoying Live Earth and hopes that it stays Live for a long time to come… 08:34 PM July 07, 2007
  • … and now the pizza line seems to be even longer. 06:24 PM July 06, 2007
  • @iPhoneDevCamp: The line was longer for iPhoneDevCamp than the Apple Store for the iPHone itself ;) 06:05 PM July 06, 2007in reply to iPhoneDevCamp
  • iPhone Remoting (http://code.google.com/p/te…). Thanks to Mr. Quicksilver and fellow Googler. 12:53 PM July 05, 2007
  • wondering if it is ironic that iPhoneDev Barcamp is at Adobe :) 10:57 AM July 05, 2007
  • turning on the Pro features on his FeedBurner feeds, as they are now free 10:57 AM July 03, 2007
  • still wondering how the butterfles feel about their big show at the wedding 09:22 AM July 03, 2007
  • laughing at how Ben watches X-Mailer to call people on their iPhone 09:10 AM July 02, 2007

June

  • still so torn on the iPhone. 10:39 AM June 29, 2007
  • is wondering how a smart guy can choose 01:41 PM June 28, 2007
  • is wishing that the iPhone had a decent network and the Gmail client. 09:49 AM June 28, 2007
  • Back in the Googleplex after what feels like a long time 09:43 AM June 28, 2007
  • Back in California and not all summer sun is equal: boulder == bake, midwest == boil, cali == fresh. Good to be back. 04:27 PM June 27, 2007
  • Blogging about Facebook’s chance to take over the social world fro … 11:04 PM June 26, 2007 from Facebook
  • Copying the contents of a remote file into my OSX clipboard: ssh myserver -x “cat myfile” | pbcopy (via Abe) 09:40 PM June 26, 2007
  • Is the iPhone SDK like the Sopranos finale? It makes sense in theory, but it is a cop out? 02:34 PM June 25, 2007
  • Late Night Cocoa is actually a good podcast (sometimes hard to find). Nice to hear Wil, Gus and co talking about the “SDK” 02:33 PM June 25, 2007
  • Met a kid named “abcde” pronounced “Abecity”. Wow. 12:59 PM June 25, 2007
  • Thank god this was fixed in Rails: irb(main):002:0> ‘cow’.pluralize => “kine” 12:04 PM June 25, 2007
  • People still think that an IQ test is important? http://tinyurl.com/2h9bpa 11:41 AM June 25, 2007
  • Getting a new key for my keyboard at the Apple Store: “Ready for the 29th? No way.” 10:40 AM June 25, 2007
  • “Personally, I’m disappointed by the lack of GPS. Everyone laments the lack of 3G, but Cingular has awful 3G coverage as it is.” I agree. 10:23 PM June 24, 2007
  • Reading about my grandad in the paper http://tinyurl.com/yqsbgo 09:28 PM June 24, 2007
  • Thiery Henry is gone to Spain. The prem is losing a great one. 12:20 PM June 23, 2007
  • http://www.25hoursaday.com/…: More like 1:5. Of course, it depends on what the PM does. 11:37 AM June 23, 2007
  • Is it just me, or when you have kids do you wish you had a HOLD button for the laptop? 03:18 PM June 22, 2007
  • blackberry forums has a captcha for a SEARCH on a forum? lovely 08:05 AM June 22, 2007
  • How can the blackberry still NOT allow you to use the network time??? It boggles the mind. 08:01 AM June 22, 2007
  • You know you have hit the big time when you are in the “Madison Who’s Who” ;) 08:15 AM June 20, 2007
  • I am looking forward to Hani releasing a useful service for the open source community ;) 07:06 AM June 20, 2007
  • I love it when they put “Alamer” as my name so they can’t find me on a flight 07:35 AM June 19, 2007 from txt
  • Avis scores points again as they get in our car and drive us to the terminal as Sam is sleeping. No bus. 07:16 AM June 19, 2007 from txt
  • Hanging out at the Google Boulder office. Being right on Pearl Street is fun. It’s a shame Maps thinks it is down the road. 09:07 AM June 18, 2007
  • Having dinner with em, sam, madeline at the walnut brewery 05:24 PM June 17, 2007 from txt
  • Rule of google: find a friend who gets peer massage bonuses but who doesn’t like massages 02:36 PM June 17, 2007 from txt
  • Getting a fathers day massage at essentials in boulder 02:35 PM June 17, 2007 from txt
  • What a way to get your name out there (http://www.iphonenewyorkcit…) 08:52 AM June 15, 2007
  • Safari Benchmarks…. http://www.howtocreate.co.u… 08:11 AM June 15, 2007
  • @tobiaspeggs: time to get a mac my friend. 04:32 PM June 14, 2007in reply to tobiaspeggs
  • Watch driving directions as they happen (http://www.econym.demon.co….) 03:45 PM June 14, 2007
  • Getting school’d at GeoSense (http://www.geosense.net/) 11:01 AM June 14, 2007
  • wow’in a coworker with the power of vi: “d)” ‘woooah, it deleted just to the end of the paragraph!’ 10:17 AM June 14, 2007
  • simple gspreadsheeting http://tinyurl.com/yom6xt 02:16 PM June 13, 2007
  • Meta Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/2fw7us 01:48 PM June 13, 2007
  • Custom search engines that work out where to search are cool. All on the fly: http://www.almaer.com/blog/… 11:04 AM June 13, 2007
  • We need to hire Dilbert at Google: http://tinyurl.com/3yp2zy 10:26 AM June 13, 2007
  • Google Base with Gears (http://tinyurl.com/2gscwo) 05:09 PM June 12, 2007
  • “TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.” Days? Really? 04:56 PM June 12, 2007
  • Can never get enough chaos theory (http://flipperyrollups.blog…) 04:25 PM June 12, 2007
  • Hmm <a ref=”enclosure” href=”path/to/foo.mp3″> wasn’t picked up by FeedBurner 08:33 AM June 12, 2007
  • “TwitterIM is under maintenance at the moment. Please check back later.” All day. 10:02 PM June 11, 2007
  • Getting cookies and milk in honour of mormanism, as we get ready for “Big Love” season two. 08:59 PM June 11, 2007
  • repeat: always do this – for (var x in o) { if (o.hasOwnProperty(x)) { … } } 08:26 PM June 11, 2007
  • Building an offline base example app that shows that it isn’t all about offline, and it is all about black! 08:24 PM June 11, 2007
  • Breaking APIs sucks. How many times do I run into the same issue with MySQL client libs vs. server versions wrt passwords. Grr. 08:24 PM June 11, 2007
  • Nice how Twitter took down search/import and they just tell you to use other services. 04:59 PM June 11, 2007
  • You may have noticed that we removed the search box (in favor of providing a more intuitive one) and the import address book link (in favor … 04:59 PM June 11, 2007
  • safari 3 on leopard…now runs on xp/vista 11:11 AM June 11, 2007
  • Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. .. 11:09 AM June 11, 2007
  • “Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, … 11:09 AM June 11, 2007
  • Kudos to me.dium http://tinyurl.com/248xbp 09:39 AM June 11, 2007
  • Come on guys….. surprise us unlike the sopranos: http://www.macrumorslive.com/ 09:36 AM June 11, 2007
  • worst finale ever? 11:46 PM June 10, 2007
  • Congratulations to the JRuby team for pushing out 1.0. A huge milestone of cos. 06:30 PM June 10, 2007
  • “Kaya: a new scripted drama”: You know it is sad when you have to tell people that a show isn’t “real” 11:05 PM June 09, 2007
  • “Flight of the Conchords” looks freaking awesome. HBO really needs it after the Sopronos goes away. Gotta love Kiwi comedians. 10:29 PM June 09, 2007
  • “Tonight is going to be a real date night. To prove it, I will order a pay per view movie, not a free one on HBO On Demand” 10:26 PM June 09, 2007
  • Geek quote of the day: “Your boss quit? That is like your process ID being reset to init’s (1)” 10:26 PM June 09, 2007
  • “I am scared of PacMan. Would you like to get chased by ghosts?” 10:26 PM June 09, 2007

April

  • Enjoying being able to talk about the Google Developer Day! 10:48 AM April 11, 2007

Speaking of “Christmas” letter vs. holiday letter vs. winter solstice letter vs. Kwanza letter….. the Wisconsin state government managed to waste two weeks in a special session deciding whether they could rename the tree a “christmas tree”, and it came through. Thank god they spend our tax dollars on the tough decision. I hated it when it was a holiday tree.

Oh, and then there is the HILARIOUS story happening over in Green Bay. Go festivus pole!

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