Homage for A Mother Has one of us his strength more nobly spent Than she who safeguards one whom God has sent And rather than to honours men can give Attains to help this lesser wight to live And service intimate and dearly bought Imparts to progeny whose pow’r cannot Remunerate or e’er to her […]
Author Archives: Markham
Taking Control (Back) in Google Website Optimizer
What do you do when you want to decide which variation a particular user sees? That’s a question that just doesn’t come up in most GWO tests, but suppose, for instance, you want to run two tests on your site and wish the users who saw a particular graphical theme in experiment 1 to see […]
Blistered fingers from guitar playing
Since the band broke up last May, I hadn’t picked up a guitar for an earnest practice until last week… Two days after I found the photographed blister on my finger the next morning. The swelling disappeared, but it filled with blood, and it’s even darker today. I raised a guitar-playing blister on my finger […]
Not excited about Google’s “self-driving” auto
Today at work, Angela shared with us this story: Google’s self-driving car takes blind man to Taco Bell, and I just couldn’t be happy for anyone, not Google, not the blind man, and not even Taco Bell, who finally got a customer that could afford a car. Perhaps my irritation with Google over their self-driving […]