MarketWatch
Stories from my career at MarketWatch and musings on the media business. I recall dinner with former colleagues, share anecdotes about forecasting and describe the “Two Second Test” for news websites.
- Updating Vista to SP1. Wish me luck. I feel I’m going to need it.
- Vista SP1 Dialog: “The installation might take an hour or more. Your computer will restart several times during installation.”
- Vista SP1 is now back to Stage 1/3. Goofy. 9% complete. “Do not turn off your computer.” (or you will die.)
- Vista SP1 Stage 1/3 now at 65%.
- Vista SP1 Stage 1 done. Now Stage 2/3 at 3%.
- Vista SP1 update made it through stage 2/3. Had a 30 second moment where everything was just black and freaked me out. But chugging along.
- Vista SP1 Stage 2 done. Onto Stage 3. 0% complete. Seems smooth so far, except a few extended black screens.
- Vista SP1 Stage 3 flew by, done. Login prompt!
- Now happily on Vista SP1. Seem to have passed through the dark side of the moon and am now safe again.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Mazie to Dad using iPhone, “Dont do that.”, pointing at the iPhone.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Just baked three loaves of banana bread. Yum.
Chase just ate half-loaf of banana bread off the counter!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Just calculated that I have 7,624,000 pixels on my desktop.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Back in hotel room. TV doesn’t work in this room. I find the failed TV more annoying than I think I should. Listening to Pandora instead.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Holy crap! Apple TV’s now show up as AirTunes remote speakers. How cool! Just had 3 systems all playing the same music from my desktop.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Confluence Case Study
A case study was just posted at the Atlassian website on the use of the Confluence wiki solution at work. Some nice quotes from me in it, and the story on how we’ve been using Wiki’s. It leaves out some of the longer history though. The Wiki use really started in MarketWatch long before Dow Jones bought us, and then spread when people saw how effective the technology was.
Nice writeup though. No big errors in it like these things can have so often.
Having lunch with Mazie at Yum!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
At the Dolphin Show with Mazie!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Watching Charlotte’s Web with Mazie.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.