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May
6
Posted by mark.
Congrats to Chris Rodde and Jay Goldstein, two fellow Seattle entrepreneurs and friends for launching http://seniorhomes.com/ today. If you’re looking for a great resource forassisted living, memory care, nursing homes and independent living homes for an elderly relative or friend, be sure to visit the site.
Oct
4
Posted by mark.
In 2002 Warren Buffet sent this stark warning to his investors:
“In our view [...] derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal.”
Bill Gross was rumbling about the looming crisis in November last year.
Marc Andreessen predicted the “oncoming nuclear winter” on April 18th in Ning’s D round announcement when they raised $60 Million.
And here we are. Our biggest banks are failing. California (the worlds 5th largest economy) is running out of money. …
Jun
10
Posted by mark.
Alan Steele just tagged me to write 7 songs I like and then tag 7 people I know to do the same – kind of a blog chain letter. I don’t actually know 7 bloggers – and yes, I don’t get out much at all – in fact I’m pretty much an uber nerd who just fishes and writes code and both don’t require much interaction with humans. But I’ll give it a shot….
I’m tagging Jason Goldberg, Tony Wright, Joe …
Apr
28
Posted by mark.
I was reminded again today of how incredibly important it is to team up with the right angels and how incredible the angels are that we teamed up with. One day when I’m not flying stealth I’ll write a book about this stuff. Until then you get the adventures of Ziggy my cat and other exciting stories.
Apr
14
Posted by mark.
Update: I noticed on my Feedjit that I got a bunch of visitors from CNN.com today. I think the blogs section below the story linked to this page at some point today.
Maybe using corn to produce gas for our cars isn’t such a great idea. Check out CNN’s headline today. Personally I’m pro-nuclear power – and ultimately using electricity from nuclear to power our cars. I grew up a few miles from a nuclear power station in South Africa and …
Mar
24
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[Thanks Sam for the idea for this entry] Ever heard of IP Anycasting? Thanks to my recent change from godaddy (frowny face and no link) to dnsmadeeasy (happy face and they get a link) I’m now using a DNS provider that provides anycasting. What is it and should you care?
IP Anycasting is assigning the same IP address to multiple instances of the same service on strategic points in the network. For example, if you are a DNS provider, you might …
Mar
5
Posted by mark.
I had the great pleasure this morning of getting a surprise visit from Phil, Mark and Alan from Mergelab at our offices. We had an excellent chat and shared a little of what each of us is working on. It’s been great watching the rapid and early iterative approach they’ve taken to figuring out what business they’re in – many startups arrive at their C round still not knowing what they do – and it looks like they’ve hit on …
Jan
30
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Our morning walk took us past two bald eagles sitting in a tall tree with no leaves so we had a great view. The NW Rocks!
Jan
17
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Not to give widgets a bad name… (ours are FAST!!) but a friend is on the front page of Delicious and his facebook widget has just slowed his site to a crawl. It looks like badge.facebook.com is down right now.
Jan
3
Posted by mark.
Google has a Live Caucus Map in case you’re watching the Iowa caucuses this evening.