Archive for August, 2008

I am half way through this week’s beaurocratic nonsense from all the companies I am involved in, unless something else is added on.
So, this calls for a quick post to link to what was interesting to me recently.

The Russo-Georgian conflict has been in the news much over the past 10 days. Did you know I [...]

I’ve been up since about 5:30am. I think this calls for going home early today (5pm).
For a funny read, Wired has a piece from none other than Stephen Colbert titled “Be an Expert on Anything.” Here’s one snippet for a preview:
CHOOSE A SUBJECT THAT’S ACTUALLY SECRET.Dan Brown invented a secret subject for The Da Vinci [...]

So it’s almost 4 weeks that I moved out to the Bay Area.
Weather’s nice, coffee’s good, and it only rained once for 5 minutes so far.
I finally found a more permanent office presence, and expect to be making a trip to Ikea for some new desks in just a few hours. Speaking of Ikea, I [...]

I am going to paste this post from Umair Haque below. It’s just about full length, but it’s important to get the ideas out there:


Today’s corporate picture looks darker and bleaker than ever. And especially among those of us in our 20s and 30s, the feeling that business as usual cannot go on is growing.
But [...]

Reports are on the web about Social.fm - the word is that it has closed shop.
I’ve heard of Mercora before, of course, but have not actually used it. It was supposed to be one of those music discovery services. Recently Mercora re-branded as Social.fm, going into the me-too game of trying to be a social [...]