Looking for moonbows in California

Lost in Translation

gerald — 2007-01-12T14:39:36Z

Keywords: [[Travel]], [[Japan]]

somewhere in 箱根 (Hakone)

Happy New Year 2007

gerald — 2007-01-03T14:52:15Z

Keywords: [[Travel]], [[Hong Kong]],[[Taiwan]],[[Earthquake]]

FROM

PS: sorry for the delay but due to the 7.1 earthquake in Taiwan there are some internet connectivity issues in Hong Kong and I was not able to post this from the hotel. We were in Kaohsiung, Taiwan at the time of the earthquake (just 55 miles from the epicenter!).

Deception

gerald — 2006-07-10T02:36:58Z

Allez les bleus

gerald — 2006-07-01T21:44:10Z

Merci Thierry Henri!

It is cold outside

gerald — 2006-05-27T06:53:08Z

Keywords : [[Nature]], [[Photo]]

Shocking

gerald — 2006-05-26T06:57:38Z

Some people in the Yahoo! 360 team do not seem to eat their own dog food.

Steve Rubel likes companies that say "we suck" but I personally think this is Way Too Much Information.

Wikipedia has some background information on why it is important to "eat your own dog food".

This makes a lot of sense!

gerald — 2006-05-26T06:12:54Z

Keyword: [[eBay]]

Yahoo! and eBay Form Strategic Partnership to Further Expand Their Businesses in U.S.A lot of people wanted to see this happening and JP Morgan gave some good reasons why in a report publish earlier this week.

Love is in the air 2

gerald — 2006-05-20T08:31:24Z

Keywords : [[Nature]], [[Photo]]

We have quit a few nests around the house. The one below is the latest.

The really weird thing is that this is the second nest those 2 birds built. The one of the 2 first pictures is on the left side of the front porch. The one below is on the right side of the porch. They keep building the second nest but they spend their nights in their first nest.

Time to take-off.

Meanwhile, the squirrel is back relaxing in front of us.

Also, I recently saw a vulture down the road. The picture below is the most presentable (you can still see some rabbit fur in its bill).

Love is in the air

gerald — 2006-05-01T07:54:11Z

Keywords : [[Nature]], [[Photo]]

I get a lot of traffic from Google Images because I currently have 2 pictures on the first page of Google Images search results for wild rabbits. Interestling enough, the search algorithm picked up one of my bird pictures (may be Matt could share some light on this).

So today, I have some nice pictures for all the people looking for wild rabbits pictures on the web.

I was ready to do some yard work this afternoon when my wife called me and told me "Look! The rabbits are fighting!"

Well, I knew they were not actually fighting. They were just getting ready to ...

Even the squirrel came out to take a look at the action

This was the perfect opportunity to take a few close-ups with my new lense.

It's official

gerald — 2006-04-06T07:45:58Z

Keyword: [[eBay]]

There were some recent announcements made by Jeremy Zawodny (from Yahoo!) and Matt Cutts (from Google).

I did not want to add to the confusion so I decided to wait until today. I now work for a Fortune 500 company.

Read more details about the move here.

Some lodges in New Zealand

gerald — 2006-03-24T11:34:08Z

Keywords: [[Travel]], [[New Zealand]],

[[Photo]]

A lodge near Rotorua

Another lodge near Queenstown

Fox Glacier

gerald — 2006-03-24T10:54:59Z

Keywords: [[Nature]], [[Travel]], [[New Zealand]],

[[Photo]]

a few pictures from Fox Glacier in New Zealand.

This time the helicopter was a Eurocopter squirrel.

White Island

gerald — 2006-03-24T10:35:30Z

Keywords: [[Nature]], [[Travel]], [[New Zealand]],

[[Photo]]

We were lucky to be able to visit White Island, a privately owned active volcano in New Zealand.

We had a first stop on Mount Tarawera

We choosed the Hugues 500 for this trip (remember Apocalypse Now?)

On the way to White Island

close up on a mud pot

close up on a fumarole

Last look on the way home.

Random pictures from New Zealand

gerald — 2006-03-24T10:07:48Z

Keywords: [[Nature]], [[Travel]], [[New Zealand]], [[Photo]]

Here is a sample of the pictures we took during our trip to New Zealand.

Auckland view from Rangitoto volcanic island

Some local Maori art

Piha Beach

Te Puia from the sky

On the way to Akaroa (NZ "French Settlement")

A river on the South Island

A lake near Milford Sound

Waterfall at Milford Sound

Mount Cook from the Hermitage.

You might not seem them, but you will hear them everywhere!

A...

The clown of the mountain

gerald — 2006-03-22T09:09:51Z

Keywords: [[Nature]], [[Travel]], [[New Zealand]],

[[Photo]]

We recently went on vacation to New Zealand (NZ).

A few weeks before our trip, I read a story about a vintage car rally organizer in NZ who wanted to hire 40 karate experts to protect the cars from the clown of the mountain (a local parrot called the Kea).

I thought the story was funny and I was looking forward meeting this bird on my trip. Well, I was not disappointed. Within 2 minutes of spotting a group of keas, one of them was tearing the rubber sealing from a car near us:

Losing (to) the edge?

gerald — 2006-02-16T12:51:04Z

Keywords: [[searchsig]], [[Search]], [[E-Commerce]]

, [[Edgeio]], [[eBay]], [[tag]],

[[Web2.0]],[[listing]]

I went to the SD Forum Search Sig meeting on Classified Search last week.

As usual there was a pretty good panel:
Bindu Reddy, Product Manager GoogleBase, Google
Craig Donato, Founder/CEO, Oodle
Keith Teare, Founder/CEO, Edgeio
Greg Sterling, Managing Editor, The Kelsey Group (moderator)

I heard about Edgeio (Edge In Out) before and I was really looking forward the live demo.

The first question Greg asked was actually a question to the audience: what website did you use the last time to posted a classified ad? Interestingly enough the most common answers were eBay and Craigslist.

So the next question was "is there any essential characteristics...