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We Caucused Today in Sammamish, Washington

We went to Beaver Lake High School and Caucused today. It was jam packed and old timers were telling us this is the fullest they’ve ever seen it. The table next to us got 50 votes for Obama and only 4 for Clinton. Our table (or precinct) got 25 for Obama and 14 for Clinton. […]

February 9, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Obama in Seattle, Lipitor and the Lake Washington Rowing Club

Kerry and I hit the Obama Rally at the Staples Center today at 11am. We got there late and it was already full to capacity – which is 17,000 people. So we decided to hang around outside with a crowd of around 5,000 other folks in freezing rain. The buzz was awesome and when Barack […]

February 8, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Bald Eagles on Sammamish Pathway

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!

January 30, 2008 | Startups | No comments

I'm Apple'd

I spent some time with Marc Andreessen and Naval Ravikant yesterday which was a lot of fun. They’re both Apple converts and Marc is a recent convert. So today I decided to take the jump. I’ve had a macbook lying around for a while that I use as a dev server but my dev server […]

January 29, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Facebook widgets slow your site?

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.

January 17, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Startup tip: Buy from Dell at end of quarter

Dell’s fiscal year ends Feb 2nd. If you want the best deal on servers negotiate with a Dell sales person at the end of a quarter. This one ends in a few days so you’d better hurry if you’re going to place an order. If you want slightly cheaper prices and same day shipping (Dell […]

January 17, 2008 | Startups | No comments

Memo to Bear Hunters

I turned on VS today to check if there was anything on fly fishing showing. I watched a father and son harvest a bear. They were dressed in hunting camo gear. Dad had the tripod and video camera set up and son had a high powered rifle with high powered scope. A big black bear […]

January 10, 2008 | Startups | No comments

3.5 hours chatting to customer service and the iPhone works

We totaled it all up and 3.5 hours spent on the phone to both t-mobile and AT&T and the iPhone works. Strangely enough she actually seems to think it’s worth it. Whatever. I’m sticking with my Blackberry for now. Who needs an interface that’s good enough to lick and those sweet animation effects and that […]

January 4, 2008 | Startups | No comments

A great speech

Obama’s victory speech at Iowa this evening was one of the most inspiring political speeches I’ve ever seen, particularly the second half. Watch it on cpan.org and it’ll be on youtube tomorrow.

January 3, 2008 | Startups | No comments

An iPhone? Thanks but I'd rather get punched in the face.

I gave a loved one an Apple iPhone as a gift this afternoon. The happiness lasted until she started trying to transfer her cellphone number from T-Mobile (who we love) to AT&T (the only network with iPhones). After spending 40 minutes on the phone with an AT&T customer service rep she had to call T-Mobile […]

January 3, 2008 | Startups | 1 comment

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.