Travel
- Snow Lake and Source Lake
- Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
- Camping on Third Beach
- Trip to Coos Bay, Oregon
- GTs in Walla Walla
- A quick breather on Tiger Mountain
urban decay
blue angels
- Seattle Seafair, the Blue Angels and plastic bags
- Seafair 2008 debrief: Jets, boats, and some snappy dressers
Seattle
- Sounders FC beat FC Dallas
- Woodland Park Zoo
- Vespas on Roosevelt
- Goat Renter guy
- World's Fairs are still happening!
- Seattle Seafair, the Blue Angels and plastic bags
- New Seattle restaurant: Olivar
- Seattle promotional brochure, 1976
- More graffiti in Kirkland
- Sudden rise in Seattle graffiti: is the economy to blame?
- "It’s the most Seattle thing that could have happened"
- Photos at night
night photo
China
- Beijing Ancient Observatory
- Shanghai Expo 2010
- Beijing Urban Planning Museum
- Trip to Xian
- Daily photo: Domestic tourism picking up
- Daily photo: Soft sleeper to Xian
- Daily photo: Plenty of room for your stuff
- Beijing Botanical Gardens
- Trip to Guilin and Yangshuo
- Daily photo: Rice planting
- Daily photo: Cycling around Yangshuo
- Daily photo: Karst rock formations on the Li River
- Daily photo: Guilin
- Beijing Olympic Park
- Daily photo: Men fishing on the Liangma River
- Daily photo: KFC delivery bikes
- Daily photo: Bao Yuan Dumpling Restaurant
- Daily photo: Mao in the Military Museum
- Beijing Military Museum
- Ming City Wall Park
- Daily photo: Sandstorm in Beijing
- Daily photo: Recycling transport
- Houhai at night
- Walled village to Moss Mountain hike by the Great Wall
- 798 Art District
- Trip to Yunnan
- Ditan Park Temple Fair
- Trip to Harbin
- Visiting the Summer Palace
- Cell phones in China
- Sunday at Beihai Park and Back Lakes
- A wealth of new foods at the Chinese supermarket
- Chinese food, week one
- Commuting on the Beijing subway
- Arrival in Beijing
- China railway map
- From the NYT: For American Workers in China, a Culture Clash
- Oakleys China-bound
- Out of Mao's Shadow at Town Hall Seattle
Near Seattle
- Rattlesnake Lake
- Skiing at Crystal
- Hiking off the I-90 corridor
- Photos of Fort Worden State Park
- Jack Johnson concert at The Gorge
- Port Ludlow weekend
- Snowshoeing at Cabin Creek
- Camping at Summit Lake
Productivity
- Benjamin Franklin's daily schedule
- Institutionalizing institutional memory
- Set ambitious goals
- Getting Results book
- First, care. Focus will follow.
- Most productive work week of the year
pivot
subway
Software engineering
- The danger of separating tool builders from tool users
- MySpace and the role of management
- Succinct thoughts on monitoring and alerts
Search
- Searching habits and the value of rare words
- Microsoft data center pictures
- Result counts for search phrases
- No Netflix Prize sequel
- Academia vs business
- My daily reading
- Search overload is officially over
- Rome wasn't built in a day
Photos
- Mount Vernon tulip festival
- Trip to Trinidad
- Beijing Ancient Observatory
- Shanghai Expo 2010
- Beijing Urban Planning Museum
- Trip to Xian
- Beijing Botanical Gardens
- Trip to Hong Kong
- Trip to Guilin and Yangshuo
- Beijing Olympic Park
- Beijing Military Museum
- Walled village to Moss Mountain hike by the Great Wall
- 798 Art District
- Sunset at Dash Point State Park
- Christmas Day at the arboretum
- Recent trip to Colorado
- Day after Thanksgiving in Seattle
- Halloween 2009
- Sounders FC beat FC Dallas
- Harvesting pumpkins
- Urban decay and abandonment
- Wedding photos
- Woodland Park Zoo
- Snow Lake and Source Lake
- Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival
- Camping on Third Beach
- Trip to Venice
- Trip to England
- Devils Thumb Ranch
- Fourth of July
- Vespas on Roosevelt
- Trip to Coos Bay, Oregon
- GTs in Walla Walla
- Rattlesnake Lake
- Always wear sunscreen
- A quick breather on Tiger Mountain
- Motels on Aurora
- Skiing at Crystal
- Hiking off the I-90 corridor
- Published photographer
- Photos from the Seattle day-after-Thanksgiving Parade
- Photos of Fort Worden State Park
- Spotted on Dexter Ave N
- Halloween 2008
- Rhonna and Sean get married
- Olympus 1050 SW announced
- Jack Johnson concert at The Gorge
- Sunday night block party
- Port Ludlow weekend
- Seafair 2008 debrief: Jets, boats, and some snappy dressers
- Beijing Olympics preparations pictures
- Singapore photos
- SABLE-3: A camera and a high altitude balloon
- Free photoshop actions
- The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers
- Seattle Fire Festival
- Fremont Solstice Parade 2008
- Photos at night
- Snowshoeing at Cabin Creek
- Camping at Summit Lake
traffic
Powershell
chocolate
Incentives
- Creating a virtuous cycle of data
- Legacy incentives - How Can A Free Conference Call Be Free?
- Activation energy
- Primary vs secondary tasks
- On diets: the easier the better?
- 'Gamifying' the system
- The danger of separating tool builders from tool users
- Mixed incentives at Heathrow: pollution or noise?
- Should we celebrate auto safety improvements?
- Cost cutting in a tightly coupled ecosystem
- Honesty, with incentives, in Japan
- Institutionalizing institutional memory
- A Union Education - WSJ.com
- Do not lose this bag
- Nobody buys gold for the price of silver
- Optimizing consumption by bring supply nearer to the need
- Lighthouses and regulation
- Regulation and construction quality
- Junk mail and phone books
- Tipping point of cost
- Building an optimal phone tree
- Symmetric bus route numbers
- The fun theory
- The consequences of incentives
- The 100 word version
- Policing counterfeit gourmet food
oregon
Technology
- Trends in technology
- U.S. Navy vintage computers
- South Korean Sausage Sales Surge As People Use Them For iPhone Styluses
- Two extremes in online payment
- My daily reading
- Simple PivotTables in PowerShell
- Favorite apps du jour
- Verizon MiFi 2200 review
- Meanwhile, outside the RDF
- Powershell to Twitter
- Once upon a time there was Fidonet
- My digital picture frame: John's Background Switcher and MinimizeOnIdle
- MetaWeblogAPI backup tool
- Addicted to connectivity
- Sitting on the floor, tethered to the wall
- Bill's last day
halloween
Inspiration
- Creating a virtuous cycle of data
- HzO: this product sells itself
- Boeing 777: Connect any two cities in the world nonstop
- Level 5 leadership
- Clarke's three laws
- Set ambitious goals
- Ray Kroc on McDonalds
beijing
seafair
- Seattle Seafair, the Blue Angels and plastic bags
- Seafair 2008 debrief: Jets, boats, and some snappy dressers
visualization
seattle graffiti
Madagascar
- Returning home
- Return to Antanananarivo
- Return from Anakao
- Boat ride from Tulear to Anakao
- Return to Ranohira (and a football match)
- Trekking in Isalo National Park
- Visiting the Canyons in Isalo National Park
- First day in Isalo National Park
- Fianar to Ranohira (the storm)
- Ranomafana to Fianar
- Second day in Ranomafana
- First day in Ranomafana National Park
- Travelling to Ranomafana
- From Sandrakaley to Tsaratanana
- Final day in Sandrakaley
- Fourth day in Sandrakaley - digging irrigation channels
- Third day in Sandrakaley
- Second day in Sandrakaley - starting the project work
- First day in Sandrakaley
- Final day of the Village Trek
- Fourth day of the Village Trek - Nat's birthday
- Third day of the Village Trek - the day we had a proper wash
- Second day of the Village Trek
- First day of the Village Trek
- Tana to Antoetra, starting point of the Village Trek
- A busy day
- Arrival
- Leaving school
- Wine tasting
- Early days
- Introduction
pivottable
singapore
Vacation
- Trip to Trinidad
- Trip to Xian
- Trip to Hong Kong
- Trip to Yunnan
- Trip to Harbin
- Recent trip to Colorado
- The Oakleys go to California
- Trip to Venice
- Trip to England
- Devils Thumb Ranch
- GTs in Walla Walla
- UK trip: Friday in London
- Road trip USA
- Returning home
- Return to Antanananarivo
- Return from Anakao
- Boat ride from Tulear to Anakao
- Return to Ranohira (and a football match)
- Trekking in Isalo National Park
- Visiting the Canyons in Isalo National Park
- First day in Isalo National Park
- Fianar to Ranohira (the storm)
- Ranomafana to Fianar
- Second day in Ranomafana
- First day in Ranomafana National Park
- Travelling to Ranomafana
- From Sandrakaley to Tsaratanana
- Final day in Sandrakaley
- Fourth day in Sandrakaley - digging irrigation channels
- Third day in Sandrakaley
- Second day in Sandrakaley - starting the project work
- First day in Sandrakaley
- Final day of the Village Trek
- Fourth day of the Village Trek - Nat's birthday
- Third day of the Village Trek - the day we had a proper wash
- Second day of the Village Trek
- First day of the Village Trek
- Tana to Antoetra, starting point of the Village Trek
- A busy day
- Arrival
- Leaving school
- Build up
Data and metrics
- Should we celebrate auto safety improvements?
- Comparing apples to oranges
- Data Science Toolkit
- Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Statistics: The Need for Integration
- Result counts for search phrases
- Education data mining and visualization
- Scale is all relative
- No Netflix Prize sequel
- Hearing a split second
- Winston Churchill and Data Analysis
- The power of visualization: Hans Rosling
- 5 Best Data Visualization Projects of the Year 2009 | FlowingData
- Premium data subscriptions in Windows Azure
- Visualizing the interstate system
- Academia vs business
- Tipping point of cost
- Pizza Hut and the iPhone
- Jobless visualization in the NYT
- Building an optimal phone tree
- A/B testing content
- Infographics
- By the numbers