Archive for April, 2007

Orbitz Knows How Flying Works

Posted on 30 April 2007 (0)

I was looking at some flights for a conference I’m attending, and came across this box in the search results. This flight starts and ends at different airports. Good! I was wondering if the plane was going to take me somewhere or just fly around…

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Chairs Do Not Need Dashboards!

Posted on 19 April 2007 (1)

I saw this chair at Brookstone today while returning my dead umbrella.

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The Sound of Millions of Technophiles Screaming

Posted on 18 April 2007 (1)

Two big tech glitches happened last night: The TurboTax servers went down hours before tax returns were due. The main servers for BlackBerry email went offline. According to a spokesperson for TurboTax maker Intuit, Yesterday was a huge volume day for our back-end electronic filing. As a result, we had a significant slowdown in our [...]

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A “Traditional Media” Experiment

Posted on 17 April 2007 (0)

The Boston NOW paper I mentioned before was launched this morning, and I’m in it twice. There’s a blurb about the Museum’s podcast and a callout box on the page of Boston Marathon coverage featuring the latest Boston Behind the Scenes. I wanted to see if this would convince people to go to my website, [...]

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Poor Marathoners

Posted on 16 April 2007 (0)

The Boston Marathon is today, and the weather is not looking good! It’s a hard race in a normal year, but I suspect this time will be really bad. Last week, I put up an episode of Boston Behind the Scenes about the marathon. You can use the player below to hear about its history, [...]

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I’m Carbon Neutral

Posted on 15 April 2007 (1)

I watched An Inconvenient Truth for the first time today, then went to the NativeEnergy’s website to look into buying renewable energy credits. Using the money from credit purchases, NativeEnergy funds new renewable power projects like windfarms and a diary farm renewable methane project. According to their website: With NativeEnergy, you can help finance and [...]

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My Letter to Libsyn

Posted on 14 April 2007 (0)

I’ve noticed a lot more people coming to the Boston Behind the Scenes site through the rss feed in the last day or two. I have also noticed a few weird searches bringing people to my site. So, when I looked at one of those search results and saw the listing below, I put on [...]

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Why Does the Red Cross Need a Hummer?

Posted on 13 April 2007 (2)

Today in Cambridge, I saw a Hummer H3 with the American Red Cross logo on the side. (Sorry, but I didn’t get a picture.) Red Cross donations shouldn’t be going toward trendy, gas-guzzling SUVs!

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Showing Someone How to Blog

Posted on 13 April 2007 (0)

I’m in the Apple Store at the CambridgSide Galleria with Kaija from work, showing her how easy WordPress is.

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1-800-GOOG-411

Posted on 11 April 2007 (0)

Google has just launched Google Voice Local Search, and experimental phone-based search system. According to the website: Google Voice Local Search is Google’s experimental service to make local-business search accessible over the phone. To try this service, just dial 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) from any phone. Using this service, you can: search for a local business by [...]

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