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The Mahalo Daily team has been doing a great job with the This Week In YouTube episodes and I have a small cameo in this week’s episode:

Just a note to any producers / directors out there: if you ever see me online and you think, “Hey, I’d like to cast that fat guy in my [...]

Behold:

Last night, my good friend Jason Ball was in town, passing through on a business trip. He stopped by Mahalo HQ, I gave him the nickel tour, and then Kristin, him, and I went out to dinner at Cecil’s Ribs on Pico. It was good to see him, as it had been over two years. [...]

Friday before this past Friday, I returned home from a friend’s birthday party and was browsing around online before bed. I found a forum on AT&T where several people noted that they’d upgraded to 2.0 with no problem whatsoever even though they were first-generation iPhone owners who had originally signed up on AT&T’s no contract [...]

I’ve been a Big Brother fan since season 2; I even blogged about it for TV Squad for a while. It’s by far the best reality TV show out there, because it gets rid of all the “hey we’re trying to survive even though there’s a camera crew waiting to help us at any moment” [...]

No.
I like my iPhone’s current non-contract pay as you go plan with AT&T, thank you very much. I do hope, however, that someone releases an activation tool so that I can upgrade to iPhone 2.0 without having to spend hours on the phone with AT&T to get the phone reactivated. All those new iPhone apps [...]

…I got an interesting comment on this old post about Wii Boxing:

Can I ask though - how did you get this picked up and into google news?
Very impressive that this blog is syndicated through Google and is it something that is just up to Google or you actively created?
Obviously this is a popular blog with [...]

…via email today, and I wrote a rather longish reply with this one comment on the homeless that I particularly loved and wanted to share with the world:

The homeless problem here is considered a lifestyle and sometimes you think that the zombie apocalypse has already started, but instead of eating your brains they’re just huddled [...]

Prime Minister Thatcher is featured in today’s Mahalo Daily, where she gets interviewed by a pet psychic and meets a dog handler:

And just in case the YouTube video isn’t playing, here it is on Blip.TV:
I don’t know what that dog psychic is talking about in the video. With all that panting, Thatcher is clearly saying, [...]

This blog outgrew my old host. It happens. I have a lifetime hosting plan with them and Kristin’s blog and a few other sites that no one ever visits are still over there. The traffic this site receives was hitting that account’s cap and things were timing out, the site was sluggish, and some of [...]

The other night, killing time on the Promenade before seeing Wanted (which by the way was absolutely HORRIBLE; avoid seeing it), Kristin and I went to Urban Outfitters. I was looking at the small Munnys and thinking about using one for a little sculpture art-project, when Kristin said “Get the big one. I almost got [...]

Kristin and I joined a group of Mahaloans at the Tangier Lounge and Restaurant in Los Feliz last night to see Dean Moore sing with Alex Lasner on guitar. It was a good show; Dean’s a great singer, and Alex was great on guitar. Good job, guys. I look forward to the next show.

Kristin and I moved into our new one bedroom apartment in Santa Monica this weekend. Big thanks to Ryan Budke and Mike Rhoads for helping us with the move. After today, we have unpacked enough of our stuff so that it is starting to feel like some sort of home.
It’s nice, because we’re moving out [...]

My brother Kevin came to visit us this weekend. We did a lot of sight-seeing and he rode a Segway. Video here:

Fun having him here, but both Kristin and I are pooped. Here’s the flickr set of pictures from the weekend Weekend with Kevin - a set on Flickr:
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

My multitalented wife has written a book. A novel, to be exact. She’s currently revising bits and pieces of it and preparing it for a publisher or an agent. Over the weekend, I helped her set up a blog. Kristin will be using the blog to promote and discuss issues surrounding the journey to publishing [...]

So I walked into my office this morning, and instead of finding my nice office chairs, I’m met with the following:

Funny. Here’s some action shots: normal and once more with feeling.

… first as a freelance blogger, then as Managing Editor of Netscape, and now as Editorial Director of Mahalo, I can say that Duncan Riley’s post about Jason (which I’m not going to bother linking to, b/c I avoid linking to garbage online) on TechCrunch is *totally* out of line.
I normally don’t weigh in [...]

Steve Rubel has an interesting post about digital curation up on Micro Persuasion. I’ve been thinking something similar since I came across Kevin Kelly’s The Bottom is Not Enough earlier this week.
Rubel mentions how Mahalo is doing digital curation, and he’s right. That makes me and my entire team digital curators. Of course, I’ve been [...]

She’s the one beating the guy with the stick of bread:

My advice to Raj (the guy she’s beating) before the shoot: “Cover your eyes. She’s fierce and she likes to go for the eyes!”
More on this here: How to Propose (*)

Today’s my birthday. w00t! So why do I have a picture of a figurine of Wolverine angrily cutting down a Christmas tree? That’s exactly (well, except for the “a picture of” part) what I was thinking when I opened my birthday present from my brother. It was the statuette pictured above with some Skittles and [...]