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Scott Kirsner writes about VC’s this post in his new blog Innovation Economy > "[…] Though they like to portray themselves as omniscient and omnipotent, they’re actually quite anxious about missing the next big deal.[…]" (from: Dirty Little Secrets About VCs)
Far be it from me to comment on sports… In fact this is exactly the first sports related post for this blog in 4 years. Anyway, if you follow the Redsox, you know they/we have/had a great pitcher by the name of Curt Shilling. He’s well known by ...
Read more →I was chatting with my neighborhood iPhone (Cingular/AT&T) dealer and learned this interesting detail (which all you hard code iPhone fanatics out there I am sure know all about.) The price of an iPhone ($500 and $700) is the same whether you are activating a new service with Cingular or want to use...
Read more →I am not going to write yet another long review or commentary. But I can’t resist a few crass words: - It’s real and it works. They had 4 of them in stock at my neighborhood ATT/Cingular shop. It is indeed gorgeous. Sleek, star-trekky. It does everything you see in the ads (and I am sure, much muc...
Read more →Hey, don’t blame me, I’m just posting a pointer to this interesting story over that the ever-legitimate Freakonomics Blog. The depths to which people will sink to get certain words and images on their blogs, it’s just outragous. Shameful. Check out [this post](http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Freakon...
Read more →A few years ago I got the idea to get myself a label printer for around the office. Turns out that it’s been really really handy. Almost all the labels that I’ve printed have been for the myriad of cables, chargers and other doo-dads that one accumulates...
Read more →Check out this post from WSJ.com: Health Blog: > Contrary to the earlier paper’s assumptions, Dr. Godar et al. found that children aren’t outdoors more than adults: “Surprisingly, it is adults over the age...
Read more →I wrote this really simple introduction to locating and following news and current affairs blogs. Check it out, you might find it interesting.
Check out this post from Freakonomics Blog: ** In order to buy a home, one typically needs to save 10 to 20% of the purchase price for a down payment. The remainder of the purchase price is typicall...
Read more →With all the unbelievable hoopla around the imminent release of the iPhone my thinking turns to the APPL stock price. Right now the Apple stock price at an all time high of $123.00 per share. The iPhone is coming out in one week. What will the stock price do?...
Read more →Check out this post from Gluttonous: Snippet: Multi-Search and Replace
Check out this post from The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): ** "Among the methods featured in the document to help ease the situation and control the crowd, is an outline of a mock conversation where AT&T store manager...
Read more →A friend of mine has been experiencing debilitating back pain for a year now. He’s seen pain specialists, surgeons and so on, and so far the only treatment has been pain medications, strong ones. He is desperate. He recently came across an advertisement for treatment with a device called the DRX 900...
Read more →I’ve been doing quite a bit of traveling lately and have been experimenting with those noise cancelling headphones. Actually I couldn’t convince myself to spend $350 on the Bose headphones who, by reputation anyway, set the standard. I spent about $50 on a pair of Sony noise canceling headphones (at...
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I just returned from a very brief visit to Madrid (4 days) and came back enamored of the city. Madrid is beautiful and vibrant, always busy with people that seem to be having constant good time. People seem to be eating constantly and yet no one is fat 🙂 And the weather is fine! It seems (see AP photo to the left) that I didn’t experience everything that was going on this weekend though 🙂
A funny article in the New York Times the other day: **“[…snap] I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I’ve l...
Read more →This is an explanation (part 1 of 2) of why and who should seek VC for their new business. From what I know of the way the world is and works, I generally agree with his article. Heres a bit from the this post in [blog.pmarca.com](http://blog.pm...
Read more →Today a major review came out in Robin Good’s influential Master New Media blog. It’s great to see this kind of detailed information about the work we are doing over at BlogBridge. Thanks Robin and Michael! Here is what they say: > “The ...
Read more →Jeremy Wagstaff, in his regular “Loose Wires” column tells some truth about icons in software: > “One day, probably quite soon, people are going to look at the little icon in their software program that denotes “save” and say,...
Read more →Recently I visited Curaçao to participate in the celebration of the 275th anniversary of the building of the Snoa. This is from an [article ...
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