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A month or two ago I read an article by Thomas Friedman introducing Americans Elect, an innovative concept for bringing a third major presidential candidate to the table for this year’s Presidential contest. I liked it so much ...
Read more →I’ve watched some people struggling with some email blow ups and frustrations over the years and I was just thinking about some of the ways I’ve developed to avoid them. I am not going into the best salutation or the best conclusion but more touchy-feely things. Here are my guidelines: - **Write th...
Read more →I’ve been doing some more coding these days in Ruby. I’ve had great success and fun (especially when debugging) using RadRails, which is an Eclipse based IDE for Ruby and Rails. It’s quite nice. With introduction of [RVM](http:/...
Read more →This is from a play we saw last year at the Huntington Theatre. The play is Prelude to a Kiss by Craig Lucas. It production was quite good but this particular speech struck me as the best part of the play. Don’t read it as depressing just as really good writing and really true. 
Here is a a really good commentary on Google Plus (G+).I have to say that analyzing such a large system and a phenomenon involving millio...
Read more →That’s my Gmail window. The black bar is Google’s toolbar. 
What does that PLAY button do?
A random, highly specific and geeky tip: > If you’ve used Capistrano before, you’re familiar with the large error logs. Finding errors is, well, a hassle. You’ve got a whole slew of text, some just saying what command it’s going to execute next, sometimes errors, sometimes just output from Bundler or whatever it’s running. (from Rails Tip #8: Capistrano Colors) Just follow the link to Rails Tip #8: Capistrano Colors) and your Cap life will be a little better. >
Paul Graham’s new essay is “Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas.” From my reading of it, it talks about great startup ideas, fear and cynicism. The meat of the article is a series of shall we say audacious startup ideas, most of which you’ve had yourself...
Read more →An annual event, the streets of Willemstad (Curaçao)are covered with art by well known artists: http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=109615 (See: Willemstad Word Gekleurd)
A friend of mine hates, HATES, the new Facebook timeline. She wants to turn it off, but can’t. I happen to think the timeline is really cool, well designed, useful. On occasion it even gives me goosebumps. But. She. Hates. It. Wants to turn it off. Can’t. I...
Read more →I love this metaphor – or is it a simile – or a malapropism – who knows: > “It’s the cloud within the sterling silver lining” – Frank Bruni in the New York Times See what he did there? It’s inside out and upside down. Cool. Forgive me, the article is ok too, but that quote jumped out at me I had to spin up the ole blog machine.
Yesterday was great. The buzz in the place is unbelievable. This place is the Launch Conference. Organized and run beautifully by Jason Calacanis (who has become much more warm and fuzzy than I remember). Here is [Rafe Needleman’s summary of day one.](http://news.cnet.com/83...
Read more →The Launch Conference is starting today. It is descended from many venerable conferences, particularly like Demo. I was a fairly regular attendee at the Demo conference over the years, and so far, Launch seems to be conti...
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I saw this article in the Sunday New York Timestoday which sta...
Read more →“Dear Kelley I’ve had a very bad two days with Comcast, and if you check my account you will see that I’ve used Comcast for over 20 years!! But I am now talking to Verizon. Because I don’t want to waste more time with you guys I will say this: I am glad to talk to someone serious who wants to k...
This interesting, and I think, correct article, makes the argument that the word ‘innovation’ is being watered downand even getting cheapened. It says, about “innovation”,...
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In the Sunday Times (of London, I gather, but they don’t feel the need to include that in their name) I saw this outstanding article about what’s going on in Syria. (No I don’...