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What? Oh, that’s me playing foosball at work.
The Discovery channel filmed us a few months back during a friendly game of foosball.
The show itself was pretty good; they covered the history of search, which was mostly about Google and Yahoo. I haven’t been able to find a link to the video anywhere online yet. [...]

So I got a new domain name – http://www.nathanjohns.net. I’ve decided I’d like to use a more powerful blogging platform than blogger, and it seems wordpress is pretty much the way to go. I guess I just have to decide if I’m willing to put up with paying for hosting and staying up-to-date with software [...]

Did you know…

In 1950, the average home size in the US was 950 sq. feet.In 2007, the average home size in the US was 2400 sq. feet.
I was curious to see what the population was then and is now:
1950: 150,520,7982008: 303,327,905 at the time of the blog post being written – you can see the [...]

NJ

I played some Guitar Hero II over the Christmas break and now I’m completely hooked. When I got back home, I immediately called up a friend who I knew already had Guitar Hero and was interested in selling it. We struck a deal and a couple hours later we were rockin’ in our living room.
If [...]

One month is way to long between blog posts. I’ll have to make sure not to wait that long, because then I’m forced to squish way to many things into one or two posts and either throw out or forget a lot of the content.
I’ve been quite busy lately. Besides normal work stuff, I have:

Played [...]

My wonderful wife Melissa just accepted a new position as Director of Development for the Girls Middle School in Mountain View, CA. She’s really excited about the new opportunity, and I’m really proud of her for such an achievement. She starts officially on October 22nd.
I’m excited to see all the great things she’ll accomplish for [...]

I’ve been back for just over a week, over jet lag and back in the swing of things. I had a great time during my trip, but I’m glad to be back home. A few things I missed:

My wife
My iphone – it works in other countries, but the international rates are [...]

Quite an experience.

I’m just testing out putting up pics and video. This is one of many waterfalls scattered throughout the area. I’ll try posting a video next.