April 30, 2005
Dan Bricklin’s Open Source Video
I hooked up with Dan Bricklin last week when I was in Boston. I met Dan in the mid-1990’s when he was starting up Trellix (which I was an early ...
Blog Smart! Workshop on Business Blogging
Dave Taylor – a Boulder-based entrepreneur and blogger – has created a half day workshop for business executives and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to use blogging in their ...
April 29, 2005
Book Review: Two Dollar Bill – More Stone Barrington
Ah – it’s spring time and all of the writers who crank out summer mental floss books are seeing their books hit the stores now. Stuart Woods new Stone Barrington ...
April 28, 2005
New Websites – Colorado Conservation Trust and National Center for Women & Information Technology
While Amy and I are involved in and support a number of non-profits, I limit the number of non-profit boards I sit on at any one time to a total of ...
April 26, 2005
Feedburner and Google Adsense for RSS
Google Ads have started appearing in select RSS feeds on a trial basis. This has been long anticipated, is a completely logical extension of Google AdSense, and – while some ...
April 25, 2005
NewsGator’s New Round
Last week, NewsGator announced that they had raised a new round led by Masthead Venture Partners. This brings the total amount raised by NewsGator to over $10 million. David Beisel ...
The TSA and Penguins
A few months ago I bitched about my experience with the TSA at the San Jose Airport. Today, I got to see a picture of two penguins being ushered through security ...
Book Review – The Chairman
Last summer, I decided to read all of Stephen Frey’s books. Most were good, a few were not so good, but it was clear that Frey was becoming a better mental ...
April 19, 2005
Speaking of Platforms – StillSecure VAM and Scanners
I’m thrilled excited about the progress StillSecure has been making. Raj Bhargava – the CEO – and I have done five companies together in the last decade (going back to our ...
Feedburner, 50,000 new feeds, and the “platform play”
Feedburner announced a partnership with 20six to incorporate Feedburner’s feed statistics and syndication capabilities for the 20six blogging community. This will immediately add an additional 50,000 feeds to Feedburner’s “feeds under ...
Gastronomic Delight
I miss my wife Amy – she’s been in Paris since mid-March learning French, enjoying the Parisian lifestyle (she’s was born in Paris in another life), and wandering around one ...
Denver Art Museum – Rich Dula’s Structural Steel @ The William Havu Gallery
Amy and I have been collecting contemporary art for a number of years. If you’ve even been to our house, my office, or The Nature Conservancy in Boulder, you’ve seen ...
April 17, 2005
Another Entrepreneur Blogging – Mark Pincus
Mark Pincus has finally put up a blog (ok – he had one at Blogger – but it’s just his bio.) Mark’s been a successful entrepreneur for a number of ...
April 14, 2005
6.6 Billion Hours
I heard on NPR today during their series this week on income taxes that according to IRS calculations, American’s spend 6.6 billion hours doing their taxes each year. We apparently ...
Customized M&M’s
I created some custom M&M’s for Amy and surprised her with them when I was in Paris a week ago. While they aren’t cheap, they were worth it (you get ...