Life and its many opportunities

Paul
Paul
@Paul@pauljacobson.me

Enthusiast, writer, Happiness Engineer at Automattic. I take photos too. Passionate about my wife, Gina and #proudDad.

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  • Another One Bites the Dust

    I read about a blogger by the name of Mark Jen a little while ago.  He posted some very dodgy posts about his new job at Google and what they pay.  It wasn’t terribly tactful and for a little while the posts disappeared and there was a rumour that Google cracked the whip and had…

  • Wil Wheaton

    I have mentioned his blog before and, reading his latest post, I have a couple thoughts about the man himself.  At least my perception of him.  I haven’t gone back into his archives to catch up on all that he has written (I am reserving those ambitious projects for when I have time to spend…

  • Licence to be a Kid

    Well, it is official.  By signing in the space provided you will "no longer be subject or beholden by tall or demanding persons".  Furthermore, you will also no longer be "responsible for anyone’s actions but your own." All you need to do is download the License to be a Kid and sign it.  Then you…

  • I want out … NOW!

    Now you don’t hear about this every day.  Wired has reported on a star that doesn’t want to be part of our galaxy anymore: A star three times bigger than the sun has been seen fleeing our galaxy at over 1.5 million mph, according to astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The gravitational pull…

  • Broadband Mobile!

    I read in ITWeb that the mobile phone network I use, MTN, is about to rollout its EDGE offering with UMTS (3G) to be rolled out later in the year.  This is particularly exciting news for me mainly because I have this very cool new phone and I am keen to replace my landline as…

  • Streets of Sandton

    Wed 09/02/2005 13.14 09022005 This is a view of one of the streets in Sandton, a new business district in Johannesburg which is growing rapidly.  Actually, Sandton has been developing into a new central business district for a couple years now.  I used to live in Sandton and the changes in the last year have…

  • Over 2000 hits so far

    I checked my stats a few minutes ago and I have had over 2000 hits on this blog since I went live on TypePad last month.  This is quite a milestone for me and to celebrate, I am giving away 5 Gmail invites to whomever wants them.  1 per person and to qualify all you…

  • Elektra

    G and I saw "Elektra" last night.  I wasn’t too sure what to expect after "Catwoman" and the talk about these girl powered superhero movies just not having what it takes to succeed.  I am not a big fan of Jennifer Garner to begin with.  I didn’t really enjoy her TV series "Alias" very much. …