2004
52 posts
April
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The Gmail I Know
I've read about Mark's dream of Gmail - have read of his recent bout of sleeplessness and his frustration. I've read, with particular interest, of his nightmare melange of math…
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Touring with Citizens Here and Abroad
Blogger and Gmail development will have to happen from the road... I'll be going on a tour today, musically speaking, with Chris and Dan and Adrienne since we comprise Citizens…
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The Fisher's Husband
One morning each spring the fisher would pull her longest net from the livery and carry it to the dock to prepare for that year's deep sea hunt. Her husband, who loved her dearly…
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Reno, Nevada or We Can Lick Any SOB In The House
You can enter Reno by several different roads. But I defy anyone to arrive in Reno via any description other than "rolling into town." Because Reno is that kind of place. We rolled…
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Lawrence, Kansas or Paradise
Minutes after snapping pictures of a massive cloud shaped like a hydrogen explosion bathed in spectacular dusk light (and several hours after leaving our the site of last night's…
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Chicago or I Am David Lean's Overwhelmed Lady
Our salvation lay in a pool of Mutter Paneer. It crept on us, this stimulation deprivation. The side effects of touring with Citizens . Day after day of a similarly blurry…
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Columbus or We Got Power, Jimmy
On stage, I'm about to fall asleep. Not while I'm playing, however. Later...around 3am. In the basement of the house affectionately known as the Legion of Doom . The basement has a…
May
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testing...
testing...loading even more new servers...wow you people are out in force on Mother's Day...
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A Garden of Pearls
One of our products at Google has updated today: Blogger . The news that will cover Blogger's update may not include "accelerated pearl farming and culturing" - but I'd like to…
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Profiles! Small boat. Many passengers.
Just did a quick tour through Blogger Profiles. There's more international presence that I would've guessed. Here's a small sampling. ( Broken links are now fixed, thanks Bay. -cw…
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An IMDB footnote, myself.
The title's somewhat literal as I'm a satisfied (and awed) user of the IMDB ( I nternet M ovie D ata B ase) and I'm been tickled ever since Tim told me that I have a genuine…
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Lesser Human
About a year ago, near my birthday, I had completely failed to appreciate the people in my life. I treated them with disdain, hid stuff, actively twisted truths in order to avoid…
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No more "clearing" DIVs?
This is an intriguing article. (If you're a web developer.) How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup "One of the major premises of CSS is that it helps reduce the bloated HTML…
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Creating complementary colors?
Another one for the bookmarks. This time it's the free, Flash-based QuickColor . Three sliders produce six boxes of colors that complement each other nicely. Accepts RGB input as…
July
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Dreamcycle, the Ultramarine
In Oregon, around the early 80s, there was a company that created glow-in-the-dark bicycles...and I dreamed of riding one. I remember specifically sitting in Math class, next to…
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Calendar ante upped.
My friend Ernie helped out on the new Yahoo! Calendar interface (requires login) which is such a vast improvement on the old interface that it takes my breath away to think of the…
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Curbing Bad Behavior
Mark Bernstein writes of his concern about strife and emotional cruft in tech weblog circles in The Blogosphere's Bad Behavior "We've endured a series of bitter internal storms…
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A more technical note on Blogger's implementation of WYSIWYG editing in the browser.
What's this all about then? I just wanted to provide a brief overview on implementing WYSIWYG editing within Blogger that describes some of the techniques and technologies required…
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An note on the usefulness of WYSIWYG editing in the browser.
For those interested in more technical detail, I've written up a technical description of the techniques involved with this WYSIWYG implementation . Expressing one's self. For…
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Squexing and Lists of Links
Once again, David Chess writes a post that'll go in my list of all-time favorites. He start off doing the list-linky fun that we all do and then he asks the really important…
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On Blogger Comments
So, about Blogger comments. I hate our UI experience there. Drives me insane. Have a million-and-one things to do at Google, but maybe that can be 1,000,002.
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Funny and critical.
Joel gets read a lot by us techies. In part because he's insightful and writes well, in part due to his particular pedigree, and in part because he delights in tweaking us in our…
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What's In A Name? An Object Property.
This post about namespace collisions in Javascript at the Marius Weblog outlines, in part, a technique I've also been using for some time and which is a keeper, I think, for those…
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Testing Flickr with Mr. Product.
"We've been testing the PCP-laced pink cosmo...it's a hit!" Originally uploaded by evhead .
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The Scribes and The Wheelbarrow
The most interesting thing, as usual, are the glyphs I'm staring at right now. The code and the ideas and the challenge of extracting value from this impressively massive…
August
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Fragments are tricky.
XML handling and manipulation with Javascript seems a breeze to develop. So long as the breeze I'm using for comparison runs around pants lowered, screaming and defecating…
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Want to work on Google UI? It's hiring time.
Really. Join our UI team. You'd be helping shape the way Google works and looks. We're looking for visually-oriented software engineers who understand application development for…
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The Sun Never Sets In L.A.
Touring right now with our indie-pop band, Dealership . And the easy part is now officially over. Meaning: good crowds, safe places, support and short drives. Those are firmly…
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Numbers in New Mexico
Today, Dealership are desert travelers. The locals call it the Land of Enchantment, but we see shrub brush, dust and LTL freight. Which, without doubt, is its own kind of lonely…
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Washingtonian
Dealership stopped by Washington D.C. to play last night. Unexpectedly, D.C. has been personally revealing. In a really nice way. Good to see Karen, fellow programmer and…
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Hooks of Books
A well-linked site to be sure - but I include myself a suckerfish for Opening Hooks , a site dedicated to presenting readers with the opening paragraphs or lines of textual…
September
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Today Being Tomorrow
I'm a bit of a reluctant tourist. I enjoy the work I do, the music I'm lucky enough to perform and create and I live in San Francisco, which is an endlessly entertaining city…
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Humid, Hectic Hanoi
Walking through the streets of Hanoi's Old Quarter recalls The Running of the Bulls in Pamplona. Traffic is a free-for-all, a speedy, fun unchoreographed bit of snarl. Walk when…
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The Boat, The Bath of Ha Long Bay
Majestic. Limestone jutting out from the green East Sea, a mist draped over a low gray sky as our Chinese junk sails slowly towards the caverns of Ha Long Bay. So... yeah, what did…
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Tourismo, The Walkthrough
I've just noticed something about the oral transference between travelers (he said, sipping on his iced apple/ginger drink from a plastic bag basking in heat and humidity). There's…
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Hoi An, The Killer City
What's clear, at this late date, is that my girlfriend attempted to kill me in central Vietnam. What's unclear is why she chose the ancestral seat of the Cham people to make her…
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A Bright, Shining Bike
Zoom! The upside of lax traffic laws and motor scooter travel in Viet Nam: a good time isn't better had than a sunny day's travel from Hoi An to the East Sea. If you visit here…
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The Family
At first glance, the sports-utility vehicle that pulled up to the Arrivals terminal (and into which we were scuttled inside) seemed like overkill. It wasn't. That became apparent…
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Untrammeled Dorkdom
My first conversation today with someone whom I did not vacation or tour with included references to Doctor Who, the TV series "The Prisoner", high-end audio equipment, and sober…
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Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Sai-"Gone"
It was only two weeks ago that a mid-morning scramble due to lazyweb serendipity led to drinks, new companions, and a return to media and tech talk on the patio of the expat bar in…
October
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His Shoes, the Color of Dreams
(otherwise titled On Evan's Evolution From Blogger ) Some months ago and seven minutes into a light sleep on the Blogger couch after successive nights spent without rest at the…
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Business with a Capital "B"
Sent this in an email today: "'Big Business' is the guiding of large ships through blinding storms. You have a compass, a rudder, and a hope that you're going in the right…
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Discovery Channel
Joi, thinking out loud on content consumption , said he thinks "it's clearly now a discovery problem, not a delivery problem." That's neat. I still think that certain media types…
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A Rambling Speech to the Fictitious "Web Art Society"
First Draft, Speech Hi, thanks for asking me to speak today. I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the wonderful work accomplished by many of the people we see in…
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Less pressure, perhaps?
Just wondering out loud... would either of the following two options work for the set of people who are put off by aggregation tools because the "read/unread" status feels like…
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On Millions, Expressly
Notes I've taken on Blogger, expression and value. No - actually better not to think in terms of just one tool. The online personal voice. The partipatory web and the growing…
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New Google kid: Aaron Boodman
Under the layers of scripts, components, and rants, that's the motivation for building...I want more great interfaces on the web. I want to see new, interesting ways to navigate…
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My Well-Armed Childhood Home
Rifle shells taken from the new owner of our old house. We lived there for some 20 years. Yesterday, in the living room of my childhood home, a tripod was pointed at my neighbors'…
November
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"Bug" Images and Inline Styles
A good number of sites adopt some traditional newspaper formatting to help layout their syndicated format. The " bug " (an accompanying inline image) seems pretty common to me and…
December
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Google Suggest sneaks out
Google Suggest was just launched on Google Labs today. It was one of those things I got to work on a tiny, tiny bit and I have Kevin Gibbs to thank - he single-handedly figured out…
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The Things I Learn
Herein I plead ignorance and confess myopia, musically. Seriously people, I didn't know there was a lyric to a song by 80s hair metal band Poison that included the following: "I…
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From the TV to the Keyboard
Last night: Typing, typing, typing. Refactor. Test. Typing, typing, typing. Last night, later: Eat snack. Return to desk. Type, type, type. Still later that night the re-creation…