Sifry's AlertsDavid Sifry's musingsWebhotornot - Is your site hot or not- January 28, 2008 Want a fun game to play with your friends when you've got a few minutes to waste Try out Webhotornot - see how good your eye for sites compares with everyone else's. You might even stumble upon an interesting site that you didn't know about but others have rated highly, too! How did it come to exist When I was in Madrid visiting my friend and investor Martin Varsavsky late last year, we had a fun time brainstorming ideas to help find and rate interesting web sites, and we came up with the...http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/01/webhotornot_is.html Public Service Announcement: When was your last fully bootable backup- January 9, 2008 I'm working from home today, so I kicked off something that I really needed to do for a while - I'm running a fully bootable backup of my primary computer onto one of my portable hard drives. I also dropped by the local Best Buy and picked up a 750GB Seagate drive, which I got for only $197, that's 26 cents per gigabyte (wow). I've had good performance with the Seagate drives - they're quiet, as opposed to the WD "My Book" drives, which sound like a jet engine going off in my living room. I...http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/01/public_service.html Big Winter Storm in San Francisco this weekend: Some pictures.- January 7, 2008 Right after the big winter storm blew past, I ran down to Ocean Beach on the west end of San Francisco, and got a few shots of the sun, the rain, and the spectacular clouds and waves blowing around. I love the silhouette of the person walking dogs in the foreground, too: I like the square crop of the next photo. It is all about expressing a mood - of solitude, of watching the remains of a massive storm, of knowing that the rocks are still there - battered, bruised, but still standing -...http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/01/big_winter_stor.html Mitt Romney Called Me!- January 4, 2008 OK, I don't usually post podcasts here, nor do I usually talk about politics, but something special happened to me today. Have a listen to the podcast I did about it. Technorati Tags: caucus, iowa, mittromney, podcast, wtf, romneyhttp://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2008/01/mitt_romney_cal.html |