Confessions of a Digital Packrat

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...

I saw this at the grocery tonight: How plowed do you have to be to drink this? I can hear it now: "Ya know what would really make this...

As if Street View for Rome wasn't enough, now the Google Earth team has rolled out http://earth.google.com/rome/">an ancient Ro...

I was a guest on Voluntourism.org today, and we talked about having ApacheCon in New Orleans, why we had it there, and how we incorporated ...

I'm totally fascinated with numbers and statistics, and I've been glued to FiveThirtyEight.com for the last month since it follows ...

For Halloween this year, I went as The Dude (Click for larger versions): But what made it really great, was the fact that Walter dropped by...

Google Street View for Italy just launched and It's giving me a serious case of Rome-sickness. The official blog post has some great ...