July 2010
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Jesse Lamb is Not My Lawyer: You need help. →
Ok, you’re awesome and you know it, (at least when you’re in a good mood). It seems like people just know to ask you for help or information, because if you don’t know the answer, you know how to find it. Maybe it’s always been that way. Friends, family, classmates, coworkers, have looked to you…
June 2010
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Adoption: It's time!
This is the second post in a series about our adoption trip. Read the first post if you dare.
Fast forward to Friday May 7th, 2010, 6:30PM at O’Hare. We were supposed to leave at 3:30, but we’ve had interference from a volcano, the plane was at the wrong gate, it’s tow truck busted, and now our pilot and first officer have had to go to the plane to taxi it to our actual gate...
Domain redirection pet peeve
I’ve had a pet peeve for a long time when it comes to bootstrapping a new site. I always seem to have to update the web server config on a server to forward somedomain.com to
www.somedomain.com for some reason or another. There are a few reasons for needing the redirect. DNS is the big technical one. It also just looks pretty bad to have somedomain.com setup, but not www.somedomain.com...
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Adoption: Getting the Call
It’s February 22nd, 2010, around lunchtime and I’ve just finished ordering a fancy ham and cheese at Artisan, a local fancy sandwich making shop. It’s my first time here, but I’m with two of my co-workers, and they’re regulars. I’m a bit confused because there’s no obvious good place to stand and wait for my fancy sandwich. So, I’m standing around...
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Meet our son - Gavin
It’s been 2 weeks since we’ve arrived home from Ethiopia with this handsome guy.
Gavin smiles a lot, seems to like everyone he meets and gets very cranky when he’s hungry. He was born in Assela just over 5 months ago and he’s our first child. Right now he has a bit of a cold, or sinus infection of some sort that our doc is helping us work through, but otherwise...
February 2010
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January 2010
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I’ve submitted my Scale Well application. Have you? I need some competition!
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http://seo2.0.onreact.com/7-business-blogging-clues... →
7 Business & Blogging Clues a Puppy Can Teach You - Business, blogging, and puppy, how could I not like the post?!
The funny thing is in German (remember, I live in Germany) you say “small business” for pee and “big business” for poo.
So the puppy reminded me of business matters and I actually used the term business much more often than usual. Actually the puppy business needed some...
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Keeping a promise...
I promised I would make the results of My Awesome Email Survey! known, so here goes. I received 3 responses which means that statistically, they’re worthless. So, worthlessly:
The average number of email accounts per submitter was 17.6
The average number of email readers used was 8.0
The average number of emails received per day is 3500.0
Everyone uses email on their phone
Most...
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Emacs tip: Don't poke the bear.
Here’s a quick tip on how to set the meta-key on Mac versions of emacs.
(setq mac-option-modifier ‘meta)
I was on a witch-hunt the other day to update my Terminal.app settings to be able to use the Command key (aka pretzel, apple) as Meta to match my gui version of Emacs (Carbon Emacs). Mainly, this would keep me from going insane if I use Emacs over ssh, or in a terminal for a...
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December 2009
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6 things real life has taught me about tech
The holidays always lead to some interesting conversations. This year, I was able to share my thoughts that anyone, worth their salt, working in tech needs to be tinkering outside their normal day-to-day routine to stay relevant. And, I was able to digest some thoughts on healthcare reform, balanced diets, and choosing baby names. Somehow these chats got me to thinking about which real life...
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http://spencerfry.com/picking-your-co-founders →
Spencer Fry of Carbonmade has a great blog post about how luck plays into picking co-founders. There’s a good dialogue shaping up in the comments section continuing his thoughts. Personally, I value the openness and honesty of Spencer and his commenters to share their own stories on the matter.
Sadly, My Awesome Email Survey! hasn’t received many submissions. Actually, only 1. I’ll leave it open till the end of the year for grins, but maybe I’ll need to revisit it again later.
My hope in putting it together was to find out if other people are feeling the same overwhelming feeling from email and other sources of information. Today, I have too many emails coming into...
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howto: Chrome on Mac with 6 awesome extensions
Okay, so it’s actually going to be Chromium, not Chrome. Currently, the Mac version of Chrome doesn’t support extensions. I did find some links that claim to be able to make it work with a developer channel release, but I couldn’t get it going.
I really, really, wanted Chrome working with extensions on my Mac, so I spent some more time digging around randomly. Eventually, I...
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Be at least as smart as a parking lot. →
Jesse Lamb is Not My Lawyer, and he has a great 10-minute read about contracts over on his blog. Check it out.
Because people are confronted with form contracts and contracts of adhesion so often, it seems like they frequently fail to assess what their bargaining position is before they begin to make an agreement. When that happens, they may end up agreeing to unfavorable terms without even...
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When simple still isn't simple
This is an update to my when simple isn’t simple post that I didn’t intend to do. But, it’s a slow news day, and I need to vent. I don’t expect anyone from AMZN actually reads this blog, but they still don’t get it.
Exhibit A
MBA’s love spreadsheets, especially customizable ones they can put their own company logo in and show off to executives. Maybe...
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Meat In The Sky on product/market balance →
A friend and really smart guy, Sachin Agarwal seems to have launched a brand new blog to talk about his thoughts on startups. The article has some good insights on how to evolve our thinking around market/product fit and fun graphics that remind me of a physics simulation. Yes, I am a geek.
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Free Ideas!
From time to time, I dream up an idea for an application, way of doing things, business. These are a couple that I’ve chosen not to pursue. Maybe you’ll want to implement one, maybe one will spur you to create a better idea, or maybe you’ll just think “Man, that guy’s an idiot.” Have fun and good luck!
Unix shell based on concurrency
Languages that support...
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Watchgary:
An Interview about Crush IT on Hulu
What are your thoughts?
from badgerhound
I love the energy Gary brings to these concepts and how accessible he makes them. He’s even got a real business guy on board!
Also, the box below this seems to come from re-blogging a post that has a question. It wasn’t displaying properly at first, but now it seems to. So, I hope...
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An email survey
Being out of town for a holiday always brings out the quirks in how I use email. So, I put together a survey to see if you or anyone you know has similar experiences.
My Awesome Email Survey!
It’s a very general survey, and I don’t want to pre-seed my thoughts on the subject, so you’ll have to wait until I get enough data to hear them. But, whether I get the results I want,...
November 2009
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When simple isn't simple
Amazon recently blogged about their new simple AWS cost calculator. The image above is the after version, not the before. But, I don’t think it’s simple at all. You want to see a simple cloud services pricing model? Try Rackspace ::
I’m not interested in comparing Rackspace and Amazon feature for feature, dime by dime, cloud outage for cloud outage. What I am...
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Do startups need to start writing wills?
I think some definitely do, and not just because might fail.
Pogoplug will begin shipping their product sometime next month. They have a will, and I think it’s a great idea. See, their device allows you to connect USB disk devices to it, access it as a NAS locally on the network, over the web remotely, and share files off the drives with anyone you like. It costs $129, with no fees...
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What's this site about, anyway?
So, what is this site about, anyway?
That’s a really good question. Let’s start with the basics. Above you see myself, Jason Rohwedder, and one of my dogs, Schatzi. Over the past few years, I’ve had occasion to help out friends and family with some of their own projects. This occurs in my copious amounts of free time. And, on occasion, I’ve actually gotten paid in...
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