September 29, 2005
Wanna Do A Deal With Google?
I spent some time at lunch recently with Chris Sacca – one of the business development guys at Google. Chris just put a post up on his blog with hints ...
September 28, 2005
Apple Hell
Jeff Jarvis – who has written extensively on his terrible customer experience in Dell Hell – doesn’t have a monopoly (nor does Dell) on stupid customer experience moves. Ryan McIntyre ...
Toilet Paper
I’ve had a life long fascination with toilets which I’ve blogged about several times in the past, including Toto’s awesome throne, a tricked out toilet, and my personal favorite toilet ...
September 27, 2005
Letter of Intent: Foreplay
As Jason and I launch into our new series on the Letter of Intent (LOI), we thought we’d start out like most LOI’s do – with a little foreplay. To ...
FeedBurner Goes to Japan
China in the summer (via Bokee), now Japan in the fall (via GMO Affiliate). FeedBurner continues on its quest to deliver the world’s content everywhere it’s needed
September 26, 2005
Katrina – MillionDollarHelpPage.com
My friends Ben Neumann and Chris Ueland have a clever idea for helping out Hurricane Katrina victims called MillionDollarHelpPage. They’ve taken the idea that Alex Tew came up for MillionDollarHomePage and ...
Book Review: Ask the Pilot
If you are a frequent flyer like me, Ask the Pilot is a must read. The author – Patrick Smith – has been a pilot for about 20 years and ...
Pandora
Two people suggested Pandora to me in the past 24 hours. It’s from the creators of the Music Genome Project. You create a radio station based on things that you ...
September 24, 2005
Comfortably Numb
I had a monster run today in Dallas on my ramp up to the New York Marathon. In the pre-Rita heat, humidity, and wind I covered 16 miles. While ...
September 22, 2005
Joke Of The Day: How Many Is A Brazillion?
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the President his daily briefing on Iraq.
He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff ...
Upward Sloping Exponential Graphs Are Good
FeedBurner has a new statistics post up demonstrating the continued rapid adoption of RSS. I know the post all the people that care about aggregators are interested in is the ...
Firewalls for China?
As everyone is talking about China, it’s inevitable that security will creep (or leap) into the discussion. The 37th Parallel blog has a great article up by Scott Granneman with a ...
Clearing Your Microsoft Outlook AutoComplete Cache
We just changed the configuration of our mail server and as a result my Outlook AutoComplete Cache was now wrong for a number of addresses, including all of our internal ...
September 19, 2005
The RSS Blues
If you like homemade blues music, RSS, or just want to start your day off with something musically different, check out Leland Rucker’s (an eclectic part of the NewsGator gang) new ...
September 18, 2005
hackoff.com – The Blook – Has Arrived
Tom Evslin has launched his newest project – hackoff.com. It’s a blook (an online book distributed as a blog). I’ve been watching this evolve and occassionally helping with some of the tech ...