» Euro 2008: And it's over
29/06/08 20:14 from BillSaysThis Weblog
Liverpool's Fernando Torres finally broke a hard luck duck and scored the only goal of the final to lead Spain to their first major tournament trophy in 44 years after going close moments before, denied by the post. Germany rarely solved th..

» At Sun Open Source Business Intelligence Summit
26/06/08 19:20 from BillSaysThis Weblog
Though it isn't something with which I've been directly involved, BI is a very interesting field and when I saw that Sun was hosting a free one day event attending seemed a no-brainer. First time I've been back on the Sun Quentin campus in ..

» Euro2008: I was, er, wrong
24/06/08 04:24 from BillSaysThis Weblog
The quarters are over and boy am I surprised! Three of the four group winners lost, with Spain surviving on a (thick) thread. Germany over Portugal was easy to understand as soon as the sides lined up for the pregame anthems, the Germans to..

» Dang! I feel like using all seven of those words!
23/06/08 15:05 from BillSaysThis Weblog
George Carlin, RIP. The man put on some of the funniest shows, consistently, for over 40 years and now he goes, heart failure on a Sunday afternoon. What a bad start for any week! Carlin and Cheech and Chong were the first two comic acts th..

» Testing iWidgets
20/06/08 17:54 from BillSaysThis Weblog
A friend from those long-ago NetDynamics days has a new company that just came into public beta that provides a fairly simple to use, JavaScript-based tool to build a wide variety of widgets which you can then deploy on Social Networks like..

» Let's see if this works
20/06/08 00:09 from BillSaysThis Weblog
The Google Mac Blog had a post today linking to the videos from the recent Google I/O event. Being too expensive for me to attend, this seemed like a good thing. However, clicking the link in the post that should have taken me to the videos..

» Home owning: Phew! Inspections complete
17/06/08 19:02 from BillSaysThis Weblog
To say we had a little trouble with the Mountain View Building Department would be an understatement. Most knowledgeable folks I spoke with couldn't understand why we needed to take out any permits, much less two. (Late in the game we had t..

» Hosers Return!
17/06/08 18:54 from BillSaysThis Weblog
Wow, it sure has been a long time eh? The CBC and Fox are partnering to bring back Bob and Doug Mackenzie in animated form 25 years after their movie Strange Brew bombed. Good thing since neither Dave Thomas nor Rick Moranis are young enoug..

» Home owning: Friday the 13th strikes
13/06/08 18:21 from BillSaysThis Weblog
What a surprise! Our lovely new appliances arrived nice and early this morning and the wonderful, simply wonderful, past construction here raised yet another unbelievable annoyance: the cabinets next to where the refrigerator goes are not i..

» Home owning: When this work is done...
12/06/08 22:33 from BillSaysThis Weblog
Well, when all the work is done, and the finish line seems fairly close as we're mainly into closing up walls and ceilings, the new homestead will be really nice. The new flooring is complete, the roofer did his work days ago, the plumbing ..

» House shopping: Yeah, we got the house
10/06/08 04:24 from BillSaysThis Weblog
The closing was six days late and let's just say there's very little plumbing present now that was there two weeks ago, but we're really excited and packing fast because Thursday is moving day. The contractors have been pretty good so far. ..

» Speaking of Soccer: USA Friendlies
10/06/08 04:04 from BillSaysThis Weblog
I also saw the US national team's three recent matches away to England and Spain and home (sort of) to Argentina. The boys got better over the week, allowing one less goal each time, though the offense never clicked enough to, as ESPN's Tom..

» Euro 2008 so far: It's a Dutch thing
10/06/08 02:06 from BillSaysThis Weblog
12 of the 16 teams have played their first games over the last three days and so far for me the Netherlands are the cream after thrashing an Italy side 3-0 that was never in the game and seems over the hill just two years after winning the ..

» House shopping: This industry is not like Tech
03/06/08 00:12 from BillSaysThis Weblog
So we did bid on that 'interesting house' I mentioned a month ago : Thursday - Came out on MLS, owned by a bank (foreclosure) and listed way below market Friday - Saw it in the morning before work, really liked it Saturday - Met with our Re..

» Summer TV starting in 3..2..1
31/05/08 17:43 from BillSaysThis Weblog
Swingtown June 5 CBS Law & Order: Criminal Intent June 8 USA Secret Diary of a Call Girl June 16 Showtime Burn Notice July 10 USA Stargate Atlantis July 11 SciFi The Cleaner July 15 A&E Monk July 18 USA Eureka July 29 SciFi Primeval Aug 9 ..

» Insoshi: Open Source Social Networking
25/05/08 17:07 from BillSaysThis Weblog
What seems like a long time ago but is really less than two and a half years I went down to Pasadena for one of the first Ruby on Rails classes from Mike Clark and Dave Thomas of Pragmatic Studios . While there I met Michael Hartl , at the..

» Playing with Toluna: A music poll
20/05/08 19:46 from BillSaysThis Weblog
A friend of mine is now at an Israeli startup called Toluna , a web service where anyone can create polls and opinion topics at no cost. What you create can be embedded in a blog, as I've done in this post, or hosted on Toluna.com. Either w..

» A Good Thing: California lifts gay marriage ban
15/05/08 19:22 from BillSaysThis Weblog
I really have never understood the arguments against same gender marriages so today's ruling from the California State Supreme Court seems both logical and right. All arguments against this change come down to religious, emotional or straw ..

» Family Visit
10/05/08 14:15 from BillSaysThis Weblog
We're in New Jersey for the weekend, celebrating Mother's Day, our nephew Jake's 3rd birthday and our 5th wedding anniversary with my parents and my sister and her family.

» Another year comes off the shelf
05/05/08 05:52 from BillSaysThis Weblog
So we were out with the Big Guy, Pam and Henry, Colleen, Jim and Tanya last night for dinner and Iron Man . Fun movie and Robert Downey as Tony Stark? Good casting idea even if you didn't expect it. The Big Guy took a few pics, here are som..