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I woke up at 5:45am today to go to the gym.  Usually, before I go, I check my email to see if anything urgent came in over night.  Well, nothing urgent came in, other than over 5,000 “Return to Sender” emails for a penis enlargement for Man XL.  It looks as though someone broke into [...]

I’ve been pondering this posting for quite some time and I thought there was no better time to post it than today, as NBC Universal and News Corp are about to roll-out their YouTube Killer.  I think my parents did an excellent job raising me.  They weren’t too strict at all but certainly set ground [...]

I’m going to be devoid of the blogosphere starting today thru Sunday as some of my best friends are taking me out on my bachelor party.  I have no idea where I’m going or what I’m doing – but in 30 minutes, they will be arriving to pick me up.  Stories & Pics to follow…. [...]

What’s your typical day in the office like? If you’re like my brother, Kenny “the Suit”, he gets to drive over $1M+ worth of cars on the back roads of New York. I’m staring at PowerPoint, Excel spreadsheets, and sitting with clients. If you’ve got 6 minutes to spare and are a car aficionado, check [...]

It took 24 hours for my service to be activated on the iPhone, even though I was already a Cingular/AT&T subscriber.  While that 24 hours was in limbo, my main mobile number that was being ported over was out of service and it was nice to be unreachable for the day. However, at approximately 6:15pm, [...]

Happy Fathers Day!  What a crazy few days… Saturday, spent the day roaming around Manhattan showing the city to my friend and colleague, Cristian.  We started at the South Street Sea Port and went to the tip of Manhattan to see the Statue of Liberty, then up to Soho to the Apple Store (more on [...]

Quite possibly the worst finale ever. They did leave it open for a much rumored movie… there are many ways the story could unfold.  Many sites let you place bets on whether or not Tony lived… I wonder how much money was gambled on this show in total?

I’ve been playing around with the idea of creating a vertical search engine in my spare time (not sure when that even is!) and came across a few really interesting documents that have been guiding me through the anatomy of the search field. Prior to this, I had no real formal training in search other [...]

NYC Entrepreneurial Space – Open Source Back in early April, I alluded to some entrepreneurial space that I was thinking of building out and it got picked up across the blogosphere with overwhelming response.  Had I been a real estate agent here in Manhattan or had already built out this space, I could have filled [...]

Today, a colleague of mine at IGA Worldwide passed along the most recent issue of New York Magazine because it contained a restaurant review of a sushi place that I have been talking about non-stop:  15 East.  Located right off of Union Square here in Manhattan, it has come to be one of my favorite [...]