dennis yang dot com

So.. it’s a good week for Techdirt press, apparently. This article, The end of e-mail: discover new ways to stay in touch, writes:

Dennis Yang is one such person. He works at Techdirt (www.techdirt.com), a corporate news and analysis company. Yang rarely sees his co-workers, but stays in touch with them in real time via IM. He typically has around seven conversations going at any time. It lets him work anywhere, even his grandmother’s living room.

“IM affords the ability to have a real conversation, as opposed to the staccato-style conversations that e-mail threads seem to become,” he says. “Studies show that people on IM at work don’t waste too much time chatting with friends, and their productivity gain would outweigh any socialising.”

Mike writes me asking if I had done an interview with this guy, and.. I don’t recall any interview with this guy in recent history. Then again, I can barely remember what I did last week, so it’s quite possible that I did, and forgot…

The reference to working from my living room means that he read the Boston Globe piece.

That said, the quote does seem vaguely familiar.

And then Carlo figured out why.

The reporter “quoted” me.. from a blog post that I did on Techdirt… from 5 years ago…. Wow.

Thanks for the quote and all, but I would have been happy to give another, more recent quote. Just contact me..

Update: Apparently, this lil’ thing has gotten Carlo riled enough to write his own post..

Well.. not the print edition, but the WSJ did a piece this weekend about the 10th anniversary of the Blog. Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster listed Techdirt as one of his favorite blogs, so we got the mention.

Thanks Jim!

So, the WSJ contacted us to add some more color to the piece, wanting us to send them a video about various topics. Since Mike is on his honeymoon, I got tapped to do the video.. Woohoo. Here I am.. A little dorky, but damn, staring point-blank into a camera and talking is kind of new… Maybe I’ll do more.

This video didn’t make it into the print version of the story.. oh well. Getting a hedcut in the WSJ is one of my lifegoals, so maybe this is kinda like a baby step…

Sunnia and Mike got married last weekend up in Tahoe, and it was awesome. They got married on 07/07/07, which hopefully will be easy to remember… It’s apparently the most popular day of the year to get married this year. I wonder if next year’s 08/08/08 will be as popular. I’m guess not, since it’s a Friday. 09/09/09 is a Wednesday, but I think that’ll be super popular for Chinese peeps, cuz “9″ rhymes with “a long time” in Chinese. And wouldn’t it be neat to be married on a day that rhymes with “long time/long time/long time”? Hmm. Maybe I’ll just book a venue now, all I need is.. hmm.. someone to marry. Well, I guess I’d have a few years.

Anyway.. I was the best man at Masnick’s wedding, which was my first wedding party. So, that was pretty neat. I was tasked with a bunch of tasks, including setting up the chupah, carrying the rings, etc. etc.. The wind atop of Heavenly was not cooperating with my chupah construction, and it was doing its best to blow that thing off the mountain. But, armed with ropes and a few sandbags, we managed to get that thing secured.. somewhat. Apparently, it almost fell over when we all went back to prepare for our entrance, and thanks to Andy, it was saved. (Thanks Andy)

Even though it was hectic at times, the wedding went off perfectly. Sure there were fiascos: a huge fire threatened Tahoe, the hotel “lost” all of the reservations that were made for the wedding, some placecards decided to go missing for awhile, the chupah almost blew off the mountain, but all in all, it went off pretty well.

We rented a house up in Tahoe for a bunch of our friends, and we supposedly broke some stuff. Grrr. What the F? I didn’t notice anything broken at all, so I’m curious to see what we “broke” on the bill that they are apparently sending. Grr.

Anyway.. congrats to Mike and Sunnia!!

More pics from Paul, Korby, and Meredith.

So.. We’re loading up the dishwasher the other day, and I put the silverware into the dishwasher.. I noticed that there were some pieces of silverware in the little basket that were upside-down… or so I thought. They were handles up, so I turned them around, so that the fork tines were sticking up out of the basket.

And immediately a debate flared up in the kitchen.

There were two camps..

The handles down camp (my camp) claims that by having the business end of the silverware sticking out of the basket, they get cleaner. I mean, seriously, if you cram all of them in the basket like that, there’s no way that any self respecting water stream is gonna weasel his way in there and clean everything.

The handles up people claim something about the danger during unloading caused by the business ends bristling everywhere.. Yah, ok. I’ll probably get gored the next time I unload the dishwasher, but at least I’m being gored with a clean fork.

So yah.. anyone? Opinions? Can we all just get along?

ps. Yes, I know the image on this post has nothing really to do with the post, but I thought it was funny.

This is rad. And by “rad” I mean omg what a super nerd I am.

The Konami Code works on Digg.

And by “works” I don’t mean it gives you 20 lives, but it expands all of the comments, which isn’t the cool thing — but the fact that it doesn’t anything at all is really rad.

Hmmm.. I wonder if the Konami Code works on like ATMs, now that would be super duper rad, for reals.