Confessions of a Digital Packrat

Karl Fogel started this on the whiteboard in building 43 at Google in early 2006. The goal was to come up with an alphabet that, when used t...

In the last few days, a lot of my Chicago friends have been posting links to a graph showing how Chicago Catholic High School students ACT s...

If you're like me, you have an assortment of devices that beep, buzz and blink at you all hours of the day with emails, tweets, and mor...

I've now had the same conversation with two different people in the course of a week--the same conversation that I seem to have once eve...

I'm still around, despite the dust and cobwebs around here. I've been doing a lot of writing, mostly on other blogs, though: Launch...

I wrote this to Marie in an email last week: Please don't wait for me to get home to eat... from 5-6 I'm hosting a high school stude...

One of my best friends works for NASA and a few years ago he gave me a Mission Control shirt that says "Failure is not an option"...

I won't be needing this anymore: I've been waiting for this day for eight years.

See Jim and Rachel's Christmas Card . We showed it to everyone who came over to our house over the holidays.

I just wrote a post for the Google Blog about some of the cool things we've done in the Chicago office with Bloxes . Check it out.

You get, um, downgraded: This was on my desk when I got back to the office on Monday morning. I think it was absolutely hilarious, and even...

My friend Steve spotted one of my datacenter stickers on the laptop of my colleague T.V. Raman , who is the subject of an article about web...