Yahoo! SuperStar Awards

Today was the announcement of the yearly Y! Superstar winners. I knew quite a few of them, including Brady Wood, Irv Henderson, and Joy Mountford among others. Lots of kudos to those folks.

I am a bit disappointed that neither of the folks that I nominated this year, Praz or Joe, received awards either. Both guys did an amazing job on the project I worked with them on last year, both examplifying the best of what it means to be a Yahoo!, and also going far above and beyond the call. I wonder if I should have "gamed" the system more, and encouraged more folks to write nominations for my nominees, to convince the judging panel by volume, rather than by content...

I have to admit that I'd love to win a SuperStar award someday. It's not terribly likely, to be honest, given the parcity of awards and the large number of employees, but that doesn't make it any less appealing. I love public recognition (this blog does not count), and to be honest, it's rare, at least at Yahoo!. The SuperStar award is the one consistent example that I'm aware of that actually is actually material recognition (Y! putting its money where its mouth is). So someday I'd love to win one. But knowing the winners as I do, and some of what they did, the competition and bar are set incredibly high. But that doesn't keep me from dreaming.

Cameraphones grow up

I'm using a Nokia N73 right now, and it's got a 3.2 megapixel camera on it. Wow. Have to tell you that it's amazing. It's not my 8 MP Canon 20d by any stretch but it's an *amazing* cameraphone. Seriously, why carry around a point and shoot anymore? You can see the pictures I've taken with this phone here. Not many yet, but still cool.

I love it.

Jetlag el sucko

I'm in London for 3 days, starting yesterday, leaving tomorrow. Jetlag sucks. I was fine all-day yesterday, somehow by the grace of God catching a full 5 hours of sleep on the flight over, even though I went to sleep at 6pm my time.

But last night was a different story. I went to bed at 10:30, woke up 3 hours later, worked for 3 hours, went to sleep for 5 more. The fact that I actually got 8 hrs helped, but it's still no fun.

London, however, is cool. I don't really have time to explore much on this trip, but the views from the office are definitely different from those in Sunnyvale. I have at least had some good food for lunch both days, thx to various co-workers.