Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2008

17 Sep 2008, 18:01 p.m.

Boss Speech

One of my bosses, Chris Fahey, is giving a talk at the Web 2.0 Expo tomorrow on "The Seduction of the Interface: Merchandising in Interactive Product Design." If you're choosing among talks to see tomorrow, …

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17 Sep 2008, 9:52 a.m.

Choices You Didn't Know You Were Making

There is some serious path dependence in nonconformism. First it's because you want to, then it's because you wouldn't know how not to.

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16 Sep 2008, 22:18 p.m.

Bleh

Today was the kind of day where I cumulatively spent 30-45 minutes mentally rehearsing come-backs and insults to my major irritant. However, at least I didn't lose my job. 25K layoffs at HP?! I know …

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13 Sep 2008, 20:13 p.m.

For Your Next Deadline

I'm happy to provide quotes to reporters and speak publicly about geeky things, so today I joined GeekSpeakr and If I Can Help A Reporter Out. Off the top of my head, I think Rachel, …

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12 Sep 2008, 14:52 p.m.

Border Patrol On The Shore

A colleague is having a bunch of trouble involving government documents - passport, social security card, driver's license, and recursive dependencies among them. "You sound like Jason Bourne." "I feel like Joseph K."

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10 Sep 2008, 9:21 a.m.

Less Humor Content Than One Chainsawsuit

Upon the suggestion that Leonard's daily Skype status meeting would be mistaken for a radio call-in show: "Hi, I have an '89 Miata and the XML just doesn't work right. I've tried flushing my carburetor …

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08 Sep 2008, 22:01 p.m.

Cobbles Without Quibbles

I am still on cloud nine from our visit to Boston. Not only did I reconnect with Mel, Mika, Mako, Aaron, and general relaxation. Not only did Julia and Moss spend quality and quantity time …

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04 Sep 2008, 10:54 a.m.

Join Us [Me]

Anecdotally, it looks like a hot market for project managers, a.k.a. producers. Behavior, Alexei's firm PlayFirst, and Brendan's firm inDelible are looking.

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04 Sep 2008, 9:56 a.m.

And They Never Returned, No, They Never Returned

This weekend Leonard and I will be visiting Boston and seeing Moss, Julia, Mel, Mako, Mika, Aaron, Kirk, and the fair city. We are a little too timid to write Ned Batchelder to ask to …

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03 Sep 2008, 14:16 p.m.

What The...

Associated Press, do not tell me there is a 2-minute YouTube video of random sitcoms using "frak" and then forget to provide the link! YouTube's search evidently thinks I'm misspelling "freak," possibly because I am …

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