Category Archives: Random

Welcome Redfin interns! Woo-hoo! Redfin’s summer 2009 intern class started today. Welcome Patrick, David, Daniel, Aeron, Edward and Ben. Seems a fitting time as any to press publish on this post that has been languishing in draft form way too … Continue reading →

I was deeply saddened to learn that http://redf.in was taken. In fact it was registered only days before I realized we should grab it. I wanted to grab it so we could do this: Which was inspired by Zappos: I … Continue reading →

I’m blogging this for all the folks in the future who did the same stupid thing I did. The other weekend I messed up my TCP/IP stack trying to install an iPhone update. Turns out the iPhone updater conflicts if … Continue reading →

In an email to motivate people to sign up for their new feature I like how Alltop positions the situation: One ramification of this is that people will grab “vanity” accounts like their names, companies, and products. We wanted to … Continue reading →

Twitter has nearly killed this blog! Just like it killed Eric’s, U-Zyn’s, Brent’s… What’s Twitter? It’s a place to blog about what I’m up to but the posts are limited to 140 characters. It requires a lot less energy and … Continue reading →

On our way to a party this is the New Years present I got from YouTube last night: Dear mattgoyer, Video Disabled A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Flying … Continue reading →

I generally hate Mondays. And they’ve been getting worse because of a certain Monday afternoon meeting and an every-other-Tuesday morning meeting that I never feel prepared for. Good news it that I think I know what I’m doing wrong… The … Continue reading →

Recently Jeff Atwood and Dan Appleman both wondered Can You Really Rent a Coder? And conclude, no, not really. I have no experience with the current batch of sites but I know that I definitely have (side) projects where I … Continue reading →

In the Forbes article, The genius behind Steve there is a crazy quote: “This is really bad,” Cook told the group. “Someone should be in China driving this.” Thirty minutes into that meeting Cook looked at Sabih Khan, a key … Continue reading →

Walking to the War Room you could tell the moment the networks declared Obama the winner. At the War Room we watched the McCain concession and Obama acceptance speech. The place was packed beyond capacity, there was empty champagne bottles … Continue reading →