Happy New Year/Christmas/Festivus/Kwanzaa/Hanukkah, everybody! If I were to sum up 2008 in a word — and I am about to — it was my “Worio” year. I spent the year working full-time with the Worio team on the web-page recommender system, and we have something I think we’re all fairly proud of. We demoed Worio…
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Worio Public Beta is out!
At long last, I can reveal what I’ve been working on for the past year: the public beta version of Worio.com! Worio combines search and recommendation with the philosophy that user effort should be kept to a minimum. You can simply use your favourite existing search engine, or Worio’s own, and receive recommendations based on…
happy birthday, me
Daisy We live in a fantasy world, Tim. We’ve just constructed this fake utopia where, y’know, we never get old and never have to face the responsibilities of adulthood. We’re just stretching our childhoods out as far as they can go. Tim Yeah, I know. We’re lucky, aren’t we? — Spaced (alternate ending)
given sufficiently modest goals, anything is possible!
By last January, I was feeling pretty overweight — in fact, I was heavier than I’d been in years. So I set a goal to lose 25 lbs in the first six months of 2008. Unless I lose an arm in the next few days, I won’t make that goal, but I have lost, to…
white meat, butternut squash — welcome to the family
Well, it’s something of an adjustment, this living on my own. So the first thing on my to-do list — after unpacking and walking around the living room in various states of undress unimpeded — was to surround myself with a couple of new friends. At first, I thought about getting a Roomba, but who…