Taking Leap Day Seriously

My bus got re-routed this morning coming into work. As we turned back onto 2nd avenue the normally subdued workers on their way to work started buzzing towards one side of the bus. There was a lady wrapped in a blanket threatening to jump from about the 7th floor. Police were trying to talk her down. They had the bullhorn from the street, and a couple more helping from the window she walked out onto the ledge from.

Here’s the article for proof http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/353242_jump01.html.

I don’t know how it all went down (another bad pun…sorry) but I didn’t want to stick around to see something I’d regret seeing. I made that mistake by watching the Daniel Pearl video and I’ll never do it again.

Anyway, when I told a co-worker about it, he reminded me that it is “Leap” day afterall. So wrong.

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taken w/ a camera phone during “write in your journal” time

I met Greg Hullender in August at SES San Jose. He was acting msndude at the time. Recently, msndude was posting less & less on WMW and Barry noticed. I just found out today that he resigned from MSN Live Search recently. Not sure if that means he’s not with MS at all or just wanted a change of scenery within Redmond. But if not MS, it does make me wonder where he’s headed….

Greg & Matt spoke quite a bit about the two different paths MSN & Google are taking towards search. Greg honestly seemed to believe that he (MSN) was catching up and had the better long-term strategy. I wonder if Matt & Google thought there was something to that machine-learning & they went and poached another MS employee.

Greg, I wish you the best of luck wherever you end up!

This is an old post that was private that I decided to make public:

I was doing some domain speculating this weekend & kept running across Marchex sites everywhere. Then I read an article over at dnjournal that talks about Marchex and their $164M investment into direct navigation (domains). So I figured I’d get my hands dirty and see what they really had behind all those numbers. It kind of shocked me…

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