12 Sep 2009, 18:25 p.m.

Wintour Guide

I watched and enjoyed The September Issue with Elisa (who pseudoblogs as The Mad Fashionista and with whom I watch Project Runway). Some brief thoughts: The September Issue is an office comedy ("comedy" in the …

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10 Sep 2009, 7:40 a.m.

Arrived

We're in London on a gorgeous day. I now consistently sleep through plane takeoffs and landings. I need to do the SIM dance so I have a working cell phone here. The new Collabora website …

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09 Sep 2009, 8:03 a.m.

Travel

Tonight Leonard and I leave for two weeks in England. We'll be staying in a flat in Cambridge to see whether we enjoy living there, and I'll be working alongside my colleagues at Collabora headquarters. …

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08 Sep 2009, 11:24 a.m.

Three Great Marketing Moves

Leonard and I attended a preview screening of the Coen Brothers' film The Man Who Wasn't There and got a promotional comb. We still have and use it, several moves later. I was chary of …

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07 Sep 2009, 11:58 a.m.

Not Too Much Food After All

Yesterday we had one of two 30th birthday parties for Leonard, months late. Thanks to all who came! I am sort of out of practice at nine-hour parties. I used to think that every gathering …

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05 Sep 2009, 3:27 a.m.

*collapse in a heap*

Back from Boston/Somerville/Cambridge. Thanks to Kirk, Andres, Mika and Mako, Randall and Derek, Jed, Julia and Moss for your socializing and hospitality! If I move to The Other Cambridge, I won't be able to go …

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03 Sep 2009, 17:30 p.m.

First

I'm in Boston for a couple of days, co-working with my colleague Andres Salomon, a.k.a. dilinger. He's been hacking on oFono on Collabora's dime, and last night's 0.4 release included work by Andres to add …

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01 Sep 2009, 15:24 p.m.

Silliness

While talking with Anne & Jane last night about that Buffy/Edward slash (sort of) video, we agreed: when you see a vampire, you stake him! Don't they teach that in health class anymore? Oh, no, …

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01 Sep 2009, 15:09 p.m.

The Other James Bond

Casino Royale is on Hulu to watch for free. Not the 21st century one, the Peter Sellers/Orson Welles/Woody Allen/Ursula Andress/David Niven/Joseph Heller/Billy Wilder/&c. 1967 version. Leonard & I are about two-thirds through and this is …

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01 Sep 2009, 12:51 p.m.

Jokes And The Unconscience

Misunderstanding number one: "You're it. You're me. You're what I've got. Like in that song." "I don't know that song." "What I've Got. I think that's the name of the song. Something about a microphone." …

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