High Yellow!

Eme brings home the GOLD!

Eme sparing in the first of three matches. He brought home a fourth place in his devision! Pretty impressive for being the only yellow belt to place.

Eme Tests For High Yellow

Emerson's Belt test was today for High Yellow. We'll get the results in later this week, but he did a great job and worked really hard. He did his entire form without any prompting at all and his sparring was pretty tight!

Happy

Delphie on a zipline: can't get any happier than that.

Hazards of napping when Del is not.

Google Ad Auction

    One of the most frequent questions I get from family and friends is how the heck does Google make money. Watch the video on this linked to blog post for a great explanation of Google's ad auctioning process.

Incidentally, Hal is one of the most brilliant folks working at Google and I never miss a chance to hear him talk.    

Official Google Blog: Introduction to the ad auction 7:43am

Source: googleblog.blogspot.com

When we go to conferences or read posts in forums, we find that advertisers sometimes know more about advanced features than about the basics of how AdWords works. So, we've decided to take some time to get back to basics and talk about how the AdWords auction actually works. ...

At B&N

School got canceled yesterday due to the heavy snow, so we spent the
morning at the bookstore.