Morrie the Toupee Salesman

Today I got a letter from digg complaining about my recent comments on various blogs, and the actual potential I have to tell the truth about my experiences there (apparently it scares Kevin and Jay, and threatens their ability to harvest money from digg’s investors). Never mind that the two of them loudly proclaim that [...]

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Lust, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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Congressman [...]

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Stable Banks, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

For some reason this reminded me that Canada probably has the most regulated, conservative banks in the world. And we are very happy about that right now.

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Luxe, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

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One of the things I dislike rather intensely about the “blogosphere,” especially as evidenced by what appears on the front page of techmeme, is the “echo chamber” effect. A typical tech story generally starts as a press release, and then the usual suspects weigh in with their opinions. Techcrunch, Mashable, Readwriteweb, Gigaom, etc, etc would [...]

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My current job is pretty challenging, running the Labs group at Travelpod. Managing experienced and generally hyper-intelligent developers, is tough, everyone has their opinion not only on technical decisions but on management decisions (lets face it, on EVERY decision), and its a tough balance to allow everyone to express their opinion, feel that they are [...]

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Damn I’m Fat, originally uploaded by ojbyrne.

Today was my best day so far since I left digg. Just a memento (though its actually also a proof for a forthcoming article).

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A strange sound - (You are not a monk.)

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Portal: Prelude

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Cross burner tells judge [...]

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There’s an article about digg and Jay’s latest keynote speech on a site called Pulse 2.0. It uses a pic that I took that originally appeared on the digg about page. I’m not going to quibble about it, but it does raise interesting copyright issues, since I was on the digg payroll when I took [...]

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