Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted under tech. | 1 Comment »
I like arms races. But in an interesting arms race there's frequent movement on both sides. So I'm often surprised that the measures people and programs take to obscure email addresses ... Read more..Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted under companies. | No Comments »
I'm very curious about the correlation of perceived early stage (seed, series A) startup risk and the eventual reward. That is, if you plotted a set of well-informed potential investors' ... Read more..Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted under python. | No Comments »
Apropos of nothing... Having passed beyond the macho need to write obscure code, I'm not fond of coding constructs that make me scratch my head. But I found this yesterday in the ... Read more..Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted under tech. | No Comments »
My 7-year-old daughter was here the other day and needed to make a call. She decided to use my landline, but found the old-fashioned phone (the one Telefonica installed, new, ... Read more..Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Posted under me. | No Comments »
My company is fueled in large part by 3 ingredients: cereal, coffee, and bread. Mainly cereal. In my kitchen there are 6 empty boxes of cereal stacked end to end. Kelloggs ... Read more..Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | No Comments »
[This taken from my comment on Fred Wilson's posting Andreessen on Platforms, in which he discussed Marc Andreessen's posting The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet.] I think ... Read more..Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | No Comments »
[This pulled from my comments and questions on Fred Wilson's posting Every Product Is A Platform on September 10, 2007] My question to VCs and others is where you see ... Read more..Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under me. | No Comments »
While this blog was out of action July-September 2007 I made some apparently "long" comments on other blogs. I'm going to pull them and post them here. While a comment ... Read more..Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | No Comments »
Russell and I met with Esther Dyson (a Fluidinfo investor) recently. After she'd listened to our presentation and seen the latest demo, she said that we'd "given the towel another ... Read more..Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted under tech. | 1 Comment »
Shared nothing architectures are all the rage. And so, a little geeky joke to lighten the mood around here: Q: What's the opposite of shared nothing? A: Shard nothing. Look it up. Read more..Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted under python. | No Comments »
B O H C N K R E W I have a friend who sends me the Target puzzle from the Sydney Morning Herald every day. I've loved doing anagrams for as long as I can remember. I used ... Read more..Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted under me. | No Comments »
Last night I dreamed that Peter Roebuck, my cricket coach in 1981, had written an extremely long article about me, full of color pictures. Weirdly though, he had spelled my ... Read more..Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | No Comments »
I've flown in to the UK probably 30 times over the last 3 years. Here's how to cut a few corners: It should go without saying - don't check baggage unless you ... Read more..Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted under tech. | No Comments »
Usually when I hear about the thinking behind new web technology I dismiss it pretty quickly. That's not because I don't like what people are doing or find it interesting, ... Read more..Monday, October 22nd, 2007 Posted under books. | No Comments »
One of several things I admire about Orwell is that he doesn't pull any punches and he turns his guns on all comers. Here's a nice passage from a 1943 ... Read more..Monday, October 22nd, 2007 Posted under me. | 1 Comment »
Today I resurrected as many of my old postings as I could find. I think I have about half. I’m still saddened by the loss of all those words. I ... Read more..Sunday, October 21st, 2007 Posted under me. | No Comments »
Well, I'm back. The previous instantiation of this blog was washed away in a storm in early August. A server got hacked and in my hurry to have it decommissioned I ... Read more..