Its hard to believe that Google Reader has only been “dead” for a few weeks. I use the quotes because while the core RSS reader functionality is still going, the reason it was all-consuming for me (and, frankly, one of the biggest sources of my goodwill towards Google) – the social functionality – is dead [...]
One of the things I regret the most about my background is that I lack good knowledge/experience with programming. While I have dabbled (i.e. mathematical modeling exercises in college, Xhibitr, and projects with my younger brother), I am generally more “tell” than “show” when it comes to creating software (except when it comes to writing [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve made a functional change to my website beyond simply adding additional blog posts. But, times change, and as someone who believes that the best way of understanding new social media technology is to embrace it, I’ve made a few changes to reflect the times: In the upper-right, under the [...]
As I did with 2008 and 2007, a couple of highlights from this blog for the past year: I made quite a few changes to my blog, including updating my Feedburner feed, installing Disqus and ShareThis, and moving the blog over to my own hosted site and making the jump from Blogger to WordPress Ended [...]
So I finally took the plunge. Instead of hosting my blog on Blogger, I’ve decided to move it over to a self-hosted WordPress blog which not only gives me a whole lot more control over content and styling (and has vastly more versatile plugins and themes), but allows me to start consolidating my online presence [...]
Having been thoroughly chewed out by Charles and Teresa and Lester for using Blogger’s very poor commenting system, I’ve finally jumped ship and am now using the Web-2.0-enabled Disqus platform for commenting which we currently use (and which I’ve become a big fan of) on Xhibiting and Bench Press. Now, I and readers of this [...]
As my RSS Feed provider, Feedburner, is now part of the Google empire, they’ve decided that (for some reason) every feed needs to be moved to a different system. I’ve updated all the links on my blog accordingly, but please re-set your RSS feeds to my new feed address: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/bnjamminsblog Oh, and enjoy these cute [...]
Just as with last year, wanted to reflect on the highlights of my life from the past year – as told through my blog! Started blogging on Xhibiting and Bench Press Installed Opera Mini on my Blackberry Despite being on a large tech case, I found myself at Safeway comparing brands of women’s shampoo Rolled [...]
And thus concludes the second year of this blog’s existence. In line with all the other “year-end” posts on the blogosphere that come around this time of year, here are highlights from my life as reflected in the past year of this blog: Started work as a management consultant Graduated from Harvard Installed Linux Mint [...]
before the CEO calls the performance “dreadful.” Apparently, we: have to wait for British Petroleum’s upcoming Third Quarter results to find out have a wonderful commentary by the British financial newspaper the Financial Times about the proper etiquette in which a CEO is to lambaste his or her staff