After an 8 month hiatus, I have rejoined Marketo. Truthfully, I found myself using the sentence “At Marketo we _________ and it worked great!” way too many times. I know I missed alot of things about Marketo and am really surprised 2010 worked out this way. It feels weird, like a High School reunion with…
I couldn’t help myself. I am using the 3.0 beta version of WordPress. It comes with a new theme that is pretty clean from an HTML standpoint. I haven’t made a theme in a long time, so I took the opportunity to build one up. Voila. It’s not done yet, but it’s a good start.…
There have been many analogies and metaphors used to describe the Goldman Sachs fraud case. I think alot of them are bad. John Stewart was very funny talking about them. Metaphors and Analogies are important tools for User Experience (UX) design. Not only is it helpful to explain to your peers what you are trying…
I’ve tried many different methods for font replacement on my site. I just can’t help wanting to use a fancy font. I just switched techniques, but here is the complete rundown. Cufon. A JavaScript implementation that uses Canvas tags to change the fonts of specified tags. It uses jQuery to find the fonts and a…
Say hello to my little friend: And I thought the point of school wasn’t meant for learning.
I love April Fools. It is permission to have a sense of humor once a year. It takes time to come up with a good joke. It should be clever and not too mean. One year I told my dad that we were pregnant with our fourth child. He got really angry. I don’t have…
Follow this trail. I want to watch the New York Jets football games. The problem is that I live in California. So I chose DirecTV with their NFL Superfan package to get the games. (Crazy expensive) DirecTV doesn’t have internet access so I got DSL from DSLExtreme. I also have to pay for a basic…
It took a few days, but I am no longer the #1 result for “Windows 7 blue screen of death”. Yay. Here is what happened to my traffic in the last few days: That decline is pretty much Windows 7 Google traffic. One funny thing that is messing up my test is that Smashing Magazine…
<rant> Apparently my 15 month old post on Windows 7 BSOD is the #1 ranked post on Google for the search query “blue screen of death windows 7“. A ridiculous amount of my traffic goes to that page. Like 30%. I don’t want this traffic. The page had like 40 comments. People kept asking me…
I get spam from alot of different sources. Each one is a pain in the ass. Why can’t government figure out how to make this manageable? Snail Mail. Every day, my mailbox is full of coupons and solicitations from charities and political groups. I get magazines and newsletters that we never read. We just throw…
A great friend and mentor, Avinash Kaushik, presented at Adchemy last week. Avinash is an analytics evangelist and industry visionary. He has two books on Analytics and speaks frequently. I worked with Avinash a few years ago at Intuit where we had a very prolific and fruitful working relationship. The whole company turned out…
The Jets won Superbowl III on January 12, 1969, almost exactly 41 years ago. It was just before I was born against the Colts and Johny Unitas. It was the first time they called it the Super Bowl. Joe Namath was the hero of the show, jogging off the field in the iconic moment with his finger wagging in…
It’s been a couple of weeks with the new car. I am still trying to get over the idea in my head that this car is too fancy for me. It’s a nice car and I like driving it. It was a good deal (I think) and we can afford it. Still, I just wish…
My personal philosophy is that at the end of one’s life, you have approximately an equal division of good and bad things that have happened to you. This means that when something bad happens, I feel better knowing that a good thing is due to me in the future. My balance sheet will turn out…