Molly’s post about search engines and standards has inspired me to tell my standards evolution story, because it’s really all about AOL Search.\ I worked on AOL Search for five years, from 1999 – 2004. In that time, it went from being “AOL Netfind”, powered by Excite and in a horrible frameset where we had […]
It’s been a rough ride for Mac AOL users (and employees). Ever since the corrupted online database bug in AOL 2.7, we’ve been stuck in the back seat of the AOL van. No longer! We now have a better Radio client than our Windows brethren!! It’s in beta now, but doesn’t feel beta. And this […]
Me! Well, I’m number one for everything dumb. What about me is number one for that? It’s this super dumbness. Dumb, huh?
Wow, at the bottom of yesterday’s post, I mentioned Tardy from Greg the Bunny and today I’ve gotten over a dozen visits from people who found me by way of Google searches for Tardy from Greg the Bunny. Google is amazing.
Yesterday, people on AOL searched for “yo mama jokes” as many times as they searched for “notre dame” and “cysts“.
I have a big meeting in fifteen minutes where I have to defend a whole platform against a roomful of people. I doubt the folks who write AOLserver will even show up, which will leave me all alone to defend it. I have papers and figures and drawings, and it probably won’t matter. They’ll make […]
Nine days. I have nine days off in a row. I don’t believe it. It’s too good to be true. I have a terrible feeling that I won’t get to take all nine off because something will break at work, someone will need me to rescue them from either their own incompetance or implement somethin […]
I was talking about inspiration the other day. Well, it works. It works so well in fact that it scares me. There’s nothing greater than having a big idea, building it and seeing it come out right. It’s just great. I showed it to my manager yesterday, who promptly realized that I could be writing […]
This is a test. I am blogging from my AOLTV box. Will it post? Am I wasting my time? We’ll see.