daily travails 2.0

"you and 1,499 other people"

2007-02-08T00:48:05Z

That's what C. said when I told her I had sent in an application to Google the other day. I guess a friend of hers told her a few weeks ago that they had heard somewhere that Google gets 1,500 applications a day. It feels like the slush pile all...

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interesting radio piece on philippine call centers

2007-01-15T18:43:11Z

C. called my attention to this piece that aired on PRI's The World last week. It's about call centers in the Philippines and how they train their telephone staff about American culture in order to facilitate their telephone interactions. I was ...

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a million monkeys, a million keyboards...

2007-01-04T18:25:24Z

I found it very amusing that today's quote of the day on my personalized Google page was from my AI professor. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet...

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aStore now online

2006-12-23T23:14:17Z

After a fair bit of futzing around on my part, the Daily Travails store (powered by Amazon) is now online. For those of you who followed me from the MT blog, this is the new version of the "Reading material, etc." page. (The old version is stil...

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QotD: Pass The Dice

2006-12-05T01:47:19Z

What is your favorite board game? Submitted by I'm Unique. This has to be a tie between Captain Park's Imaginary Polar Expedition and Deadwood.

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This is turning into a book blog, isn't it

2006-12-05T01:45:14Z

Sosnik, Dowd and Fournier, Applebee's America Kevin B. Connolly, Buying and Selling Volatility Barton Biggs, Hedgehogging

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Books I've read in the past two months

2006-10-15T04:17:35Z

Books I've read in the past two months (since it's been that long since I last posted and I'm sure you've been wanting to know...) John Battelle, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture Grea...

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BusinessWeek has spoken...

2006-10-15T04:05:50Z

... and the GSB made it to #1 in their rankings this year. Sweet. :-) Check out the article I'm sure there are a lot of people in Hyde Park smiling this weekend.

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we have arrived

2006-08-14T07:16:11Z

C. and I have arrived in the Bay Area, and I have started working. I can't really talk much about work, so please don't ask me about it here.After having some really good dim sum in Foster City, we spent yesterday afternoon in the East Bay, revi...

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small victories

2006-07-20T03:46:32Z

As I've said in the past, sometimes it's the small victories that help keep us sane. The books are off the shelves, and I've taken down one set of them (the shelves, that is). Packing continues apace, and tomorrow I go to seek out maps to use ...

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