Fly Fishing on lake Samm
My neighbor John Winkler just emailed this to me. He took this while I was fly fishing off our dock on Lake Sammamish earlier this year.
November 22, 2009 | Fly Fishing | No comments
A legend just died
About a year ago I received two old servers from Snapvine my former neighbors (now acquired by Whitepages). Snapvine got them from another startup in Seattle, I don’t recall which. I named them Rex1 and Rex2 and put them to work immediately. The graph below shows the disk activity during the last year on Rex1: […]
November 21, 2009 | WTF | 1 comment
Spooky fun with ssh on OS X
Want to freak out your wife/husband/kids? On a mac that you have access to: Go to ‘System Preferences’. Under ‘Internet & Networking’ there is a ‘Sharing’ icon. Run that. In the list that appears, check the ‘Remote Login’ option. Then ssh into your mac remotely by downloading putty if you’re on a pc or launch […]
Why we breathe
Hold your breath for a moment. In about 10 to 30 seconds you’ll be feeling a strong desire to take a breath. That’s not caused by lack of oxygen. It’s caused by excess carbon dioxide buildup in your blood. [Ok you can breathe again.] The trigger in mammals that causes us to want to take […]
November 11, 2009 | Startup Hacks, Startups | 1 comment
Revenue and Runway – Why every cent matters
A month ago on Techcrunch, Michael Arrington wrote about “Twitter’s Revenue Dilemma”: “Your valuation can actually go down once you turn on revenue.”. “Turning on revenue” frames it as a binary thing. You’re either making money or you’re not. It completely disregards the most important variable in finance: Time. With the tiniest trickle of revenue […]
Possible leads in the shooting of officer Brenton
The memorial procession is happening right now for Officer Tim Brenton. Details on the West Seattle Blog. More importantly, please read this entry on the same blog. It contains a detailed description from SPD on how you can help catch the shooter(s). The comment thread has some great data. “TK” has increased the size of […]
November 6, 2009 | Seattle | No comments
How much traffic do the biggest typo domains get?
There’s an article on searchengineland today about domaining and how Google and Yahoo “make money off a twitter typo domain”. I’m not sure I’m as excited about exposing this travesty of justice as SEL is, but I was curious how much traffic typo domains get: In my brief research I found facebok.com was by far […]
Chrysler's new logo: A trademark lawsuit about to happen
My education in trademark law a few years ago taught me this: The test of whether a case is winnable or not is that the plaintiff has to prove actual instances of customer confusion. TM law is not there to protect your trademark. It’s goal is to protect the consumer – hence this test. Here’s […]
November 5, 2009 | Law | 3 comments
WTF is up with Dell?
[Update at end of post] I love Dell servers. In fact I even love their network hardware. I’ve spent 0000’s (yeah that’s four zeros) with them during the last 2 years and Mick my old sales guy rocked! As did his hardware team. I’m ready to spend more money. Yup, I’m going to take my […]
November 5, 2009 | Rants | 14 comments
Reminding me why I need to travel more…
My brother sent this to me. I’m not sure who the source is – the original is here. It’s Mt Hua in China.
November 2, 2009 | Randomness | 2 comments