Greg Veen

30 April 2008

Glasses cat

My friend Michael Economy, publisher of the always entertaining IDRAWCATS: Retarded Drawings of Cats, has drawn a cat wearing thick rimmed glasses. It looks a little like me, don't you think?

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19 February 2008

And I mean free, and I mean fair

On the news of Fidel Castro's resignation, President Bush called for "free and fair" elections in Cuba:

"The international community should work with the Cuban people to begin to build institutions that are necessary for democracy," he said. "Eventually, this transition ought to lead to free and fair elections -- and I mean free, and I mean fair -- not these kind of staged elections that the Castro brothers try to foist off as true democracy."

I wish I could take him seriously. Yes, of course Cuba should have free and fair elections. But of all the people to be calling for them...

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8 May 2007

Google Analytics redesign lifts off

Yes, the redesign of Google Analytics has launched, and I'm very happy with how it turned out! As Jeff and Ryan and others have already mentioned, getting here was indeed a challenge. But it was the kind of challenge I love, shaped by constraints pushing and pulling from all sorts of fascinating angles -- and, very importantly, faced head on by a tremendous team of talented people. Big thanks to all involved!

If you use Google Analytics, let me know what you think of the redesign. The new version will roll out to all accounts over the next month or so.

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7 March 2007

Indecision

"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
-Jimmy Buffett

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7 January 2007

We're in it

While riding a packed bus the other day, I heard something drop to the floor -- something small, like a coin maybe. I looked down, and sure enough: there, among passengers' feet, I saw a coin spinning to rest. But it was a big coin. And it was purple.

I was standing at the time, but the man sitting in front of me reached down and grabbed the coin. Then he looked up at me and, from a mouth subtly outlined with almost gelatinous saliva, said what turned out to be the most entertaining thing I'd heard all day:

"It's my lucky travel coin," he epxlained. He paused for a second or two before continuing. "I'm having trouble recovering the disk drive because, well, you know, we're like in it."

I couldn't really disagree. As I nodded back he added, "So, you know, I don't really want to reformat it or reboot."

So very true.

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10 December 2006

Objectifying Javascript

While catching up on some of the blog reading that my recently busy schedule has forced me to neglect, I came across Jonathan Snook's summary of object oriented Javascript, which was published over at Digital Web last September. It does a great job of outlining various approaches towards objected oriented Javascript that have spread in use as web applications have grown more sophisticated. I really wish this had been around for me to read ages ago, when my development work first headed in that direction.

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