March 31 - sick but recouping

• I spent the weekend trying to get better from a bad headcold. I think half of San Francisco has this headcold. I gathered with fellow sickies sat eve at an engagement party (I could barely stand up after an hour) and on Sunday it would've taken all my energy to go through with a golf lesson I had at 5:30pm. Fortunately my golf pro called to say he had a bad cold and couldn't make the lesson. I'm on the mend today but have the hack cough that is never pleasant. Hoping I'm better by the end of the week.
• Glam gets rid of house ads -for the small pubs they service on their network. If I helped build Glam and this was the email I recieved, I am not sure how I'd take the news. Glam does offer a host of alternatives stated in this update.
  

March 21 - Twitter coordination for SF protests

• On March 19 the fifth anniversary of the US occupation of Iraq passed, and anti-war protesters in San Francisco used Twitter to coordinate their movements. The twitter log notes everything from who's arrested to where die-ins were happening (Not sure what that means). All this happened 1 block from where I live. SF is a very political and activitist oriented city. It's good to see they are leveraging technology on the activist front too.
  

March 20 - Is it Equinox time yet?

• I know where I live it's the same temperature 10 of 12 months, but I crave the Vernal Equinox. I'm a huge equinox / solstice fan. Maybe it's the earth science affinity I have, or that I need excuses to gather friends and hold a party every 3 months. It's symbolic for me that time is marching on. What is different from last year? What is new this season? What are my priorities now? It's a good benchmark and check in no matter what you're thinking about - parties to planning.
  
• This equinox I can't help but think about all the positive things happening to me. Sure I have my downers, but the postives outweigh the downers. As it should be. Perspective, along with equinoxes, help keep us all in check and focus on priorties, the good things in life, and what we're doing about it.

St Patricks Day - More clickers Emily and John s

Must be the luck o the Irish! I was walking down the street, minding my own beeswax, when I heard an insistent knocking on the glass of "Murphy's Pub". Annoying drunks! Actually, when I heard my name shouted from the doorway, I realized I actually know the drunks. Turns out my co-workers were festing it up on an Irish pub crawl. I joined them for two rounds and headed on my route to Pacific Heights as planned before the diversion. Thanks for finding me guys and letting me celebrate this year. I almost missed it.

Tommy O'Schroeder hounded me down on the street, now looking like a shrewd leprechaun.

March 14

• I'm heading up to Truckee today for some skiing with friends. I've never been to North Lake Tahoe to ski, only Heavenly on the south shore. I'm BARTing it up to Concord and meeting the bf to drive from there. The plan is to hit Alpine Meadows. If you're up there let me know.
  

March 13 - AOL buys Bebo - congrats bebo.

• Brother Dan is still here and doing well. Today we are checking out some around town sites in the evening.
  
• The Weather Channel is rolling out targeted mobile ads. It's good to see a relevant use for mobile ads - it's raining in Charlotte? Run to Walmart for your umbrella special! Or maybe it's Lipton who wants to offer you chicken soup to warm you up. I'll test this out later today.
• Viva la france! France plans to develop it's own Google rival. This sounds very minitel-esque. The French pride themselves on their technology, fast trains, and engineering feats. Let's hope they can pull of something that can match up! I would love to see what they come up with.
• AOL bought social UK teen community network bebo.com for $850 million. Bebo, which was advised on the deal by Allen & Co, has struggled in the US, but is the third most popular social networking site in the UK after Facebook and MySpace, where it is visited by 4.1 million, mostly younger people a month. I met the founder of Bebo last year along with their adserving team. I felt so old, but good for them for becoming part of the AOL family. How they will fare as AOL continues to sort out internally is still up for debate.
  

March 11

• My brother Dan is in town this week from Ithaca, New York. He and his girlfriend waived goodbye to snowdrifts and grey skies in exchange for the warm welcomed sunshine. Both Dan and Ann Marie are newly minted phD's and professors in music. They're a great match and we had a 'music appreciation' session last night. We busted out the turntables for Jackson Browne, Neil Diamond, and the grand finale, West Side Story (the original broadway soundtrack). Music geek heaven. What's even more appreciative is that I had all of these on vinyl. Whenever Dan's around, the turntables are never far behind.
• Tonight we continue the music appreciation at Yoshi's Jazz Club in San Francisco.
• Google offers insight on it's DoubleClick acquisition that officially closed today
  

March 6 - facebook favorites

• Every time I see this "friend" profile from my facebook contacts, I crack up. Our boy is quite an aspiring celebrity among the facebook advertising crew.
  
• DSM even has 9 friends - more than some of my real friends. Must be his charming good looks.
  
  

• Amazon selling wine - makes for some easy reading. Is the Kindle stain proof?
  

March 5 - Need a map

This is a great idea -but how bout some updated tags other than the blah tote bag?
MAPTOTE

The Napa Party Bus

• A full on 50 seat party bus - dancing in the aisles was prerequisite.
  

• So was falling into each other at stop signs.

March 1st - Napa wine touring for a leap year birthday

• My coworker Kelly takes in the sights and glory at Frazier Winery in Napa - our picnic spot.