Archive for June, 2006

Price discrimination by search type

Friday, June 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Clever bastards – Ross Parker has discovered that on at least one website prices differ depending on how you ask your search to be ordered. In particular, if you ... Read more..

What if VMs were free?

Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So much to read on virtualization these days — here’s a nice blog — virtualization.info. Put me to wondering — what if it were free to bring up VMs on your ... Read more..

Car shopping

Thursday, June 29th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Looking at some cars to add to the household — the sweet spot is the $32K sedan. The Volvo S60, Subaru Legacy, and vw passat all seem like great choices. ... Read more..

Halloween Ideas

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

mutli-channel player — sned sounds over individual channels of a 5.1 setup. pretty useful for running multiple sounds off a single pc. Also a random tip on this ... Read more..

Grabbag of links

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The blockbuster bestseller is dying. “…the evidence shows we are moving away from a winner-take-all society, not toward it” Solar powered flickering candles. Ordered for Halloween Great lens guidance from ... Read more..

Taunt-o-nomics

Monday, June 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

EDSBS ? TAUNT-O-NOMICS: THE PHYSICAL LAWS OF TAUNTING — oh my gosh hilarious. Proves what we all knew about West Virginia fans. Too many funny slams in here ... Read more..

Soaring Eagle Park

Sunday, June 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My close-in park of choice for quick hikes is Cougar Mountain, but Soaring Eagle looks like an interesting choice too. Thanks to Steve for the tip. And thanks ... Read more..

Raison D’Etre

Sunday, June 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dogfish Head - Raison D’Etre — wow, seriously good beer. Read more..

1GB sd cards for $29…

Saturday, June 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

jkOnTheRun: Sandisk 1GB SD card down to $29 starting tomorrow — amazing. Read more..

X-ray inspiration

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Cool Hunting: Jahan Khalili’s X-Ray Lamps — ok I don’t really want one of these lamps but I love the idea of getting old xray films and using them for ... Read more..

Flock First Reactions

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Hey this feels pretty good. Light and zippy. Blog integration is decent tho a few bugs and shortcomings.  Nice importation of all firefox settings.  I don’t think I ... Read more..

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve had The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield on my “to read” shelf for years, something about the title intrigued me. But the idea of actually ... Read more..

Grabbag of links

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Via gotAPI.com | Gadgetopia, gotapi.com — online reference for a bunch of different languages. nice. Martin points to a great doc on how brazil achieved oil independence First 100+megapixel sensor — ... Read more..

Best College Stadiums

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I get a lot of visitors looking for info on the best college stadiums. Well here are some pointers to web resources: College Stadiums Football Photos 8×10 — nice aerial ... Read more..

Ignition roundup

Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We’ve got a new version of our website up — Ignition Partners — HELPING ENTREPRENEURS SEIZE OPPORTUNITY - way more modern and we expanded our last fund Mpire hires a new ceo. I ... Read more..

Imperium Renewables

Monday, June 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Martin came by and updated us on Imperium Renewables today (nee Seattle Biodiesel). Sounds like they are hitting on all cylinders, man I wish I’d been smart enough to ... Read more..

Books this week

Monday, June 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

No Second Chance by Harlan Coben. Another great whirlwind mystery by coben. Man no one writes an airline reading book like this guy. Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara. ... Read more..

Experiment in consumer use of VMs

Friday, June 9th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

An interesting experiement — The Furrygoat Experience: Virtualization (Portable XP?) — someone is going to figure out the consumer use scenario for VM technology and make a lot of money. ... Read more..

Materials Science fascination

Friday, June 9th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If I were going to college today, I’d be studying materials science. In fact I’ve been looking at online master’s degree programs — UW and Columbia both have ... Read more..

Things that tickle me

Thursday, June 8th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I thought someone had been moving things on my desk when I was not around but now I know what is really happening — Variable physical laws I am not sure ... Read more..

Software/service grab bag

Thursday, June 8th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Using Lala a lot these days! We’re investors, but I do love it. The IETab plugin for firefox is a requirement if you use OWA. Awesome. Trying out google browser ... Read more..

NCAA hypocrisy in action

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

EDSBS ? MYLES BRAND IN ACTION: DREW TATE GETS SCAH-REWWWED. — more dubious behaviour from the NCAA. Read more..

Productivity Apps In the Cloud

Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

A VC: Productivity Apps In The Cloud — “Except all of Microsoft’s editors, including the flagship editor Word, lack the simple functionality of being able to edit and save directly ... Read more..

Software and Service roundup

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Carbonite sounds awesome — nice find Chris. I am going to install tomorrow. Great tip — how to unblock attachments in Outlook Comodo Personal Firewall — pcmag likes it Companionlink for Google Calendar ... Read more..

Network Magic one of PC World’s Best for 2006

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

NetworkGarage.com: Network Magic Wins PC World’s Best of 2006 Award — nice work guys, congrats. Read more..

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