Googlism is a great idea. Dave Winer wonders how it does that. Search Google itself for "Dave Winer is" (with the quotes) and you get the same hits, with just some processing of the returned excerpts to do. And, just for the record, Andrew Shearer is aware that you use Googlism.

Wait a few days for Googlebot to hit my site again, and that will start to make sense. (Could it be the start of Googlismbombing?)

At my day job, I somehow would up on an organizing committee for the department Halloween party, providing its only male representation. (I would have said “much-needed” or “much-appreciated” representation, but I don’t really know about that.)

Whatever the case, we decided to have our first annual costume contest, for which I was put into duty as the photographer. To set a good example we all wore costumes. So I had to come up with a costume idea for the first time since childhood.

At the party, I was supposed to be Jimmy Olsen (staff photographer for the Daily Planet, home to Lois Lane/Clark Kent/Superman), as I kept having to explain over and over. Guess no one saw the movie recently. (It would have been much more convincing with a bow tie, but I couldn’t find the one I used for junior high orchestra concerts and couldn’t bring myself to buy another.)

I'll post my notes from the Nov. 1 Intranet Usability seminar in Boston, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne, in a few days.

The weekend before last, I went biking on the trails at Lincoln Woods with a coworker and his girlfriend. The last time I went with them, a couple of weeks before, I managed somehow to snap my bike’s rear axle in two within an hour. No problems this time. (New rear wheel, though.)

The picture was taken on his tiny Sony DSC-U10 digital camera. It’s only one megapixel, and the quality of those pixels is only fair, but the small size makes up for that, allowing lots of pictures that wouldn't be practical with a bigger camera. He even tried shooting a movie while riding (on the road at the time, admittedly).