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Feb 5, 2008

London, Day 1, Addendum

I forgot to mention that on Sunday afternoon I also headed over to Buckingham Palace while I was waiting for a room to be made available at my hotel. Perhaps 100 yards away from the palace is the Canadian War Memorial.

Feb 4, 2008

London, Day 1

I have arrived in London, where I’ll be working for two weeks. So far, everything is going well.

Dec 30, 2007

Vacation musings

As I sit here in my parents’ house on the last night before I fly back to New York, gazing into the thick fog that’s settled over the neighborhood, I feel compelled to take stock of my life. The last week has been a really great time, and it’s going to be tough to leave, though I know I have to. Knowing how hard it is on my mom doesn’t help either.

Nov 14, 2007

No More DC Power in NYC

New York City has had direct current electrical service since 1882, but that ended today with the disconnecting of 10 E. 40th Street, the last DC customer in the city. Plenty of systems still use DC, most notably the subway, but ConEd has gradually moved the responsibility for AC/DC conversion to the customers, allowing ConEd to stop delivering DC power off the grid.

Aug 29, 2007

What does this mean to you?

Picture of sattelite and truck

Aug 13, 2007

Impression From A Weekend

New Haven consists largely of parking lots and medical emergencies.

Aug 5, 2007

Deriving Importance From Maps

The God Plays Dice blog that I’ve been reading recently had an interesting entry on trying to derive the importance of intersections from a map of a city. The core observation is that a good first approximation of importance of an intersection is the number of roads leading into and out of it.

Jul 18, 2007

We Made The New York Times

The New York Times posted an article about the recent release of our product to hundreds of thousands of additional advertisers. Pretty exciting stuff.

Jul 15, 2007

Poor Greenland

Despite football (soccer) being the national sport of Greenland, they are not a member of FIFA. Why, you ask? Because it’s impossible to grow grass in Greenland that meets FIFA’s standards.

Mar 19, 2007

I Didn't Really Want It Anyway

I’ve never been so pleased to be denied a service in my life.