June 2008
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My Vintage Rock Playlist
For the July road trip. A few goodies from mostly the 70s.
Victim of Changes - Judas Priest, Sad Wings of Destiny
Eye In the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project, Eye In the Sky
Brighter Than Sunshine - Aqualung, Strange & Beautiful
Moth - Audioslave, Revelations
The Weight - The Band, Music From Big Pink
Cold - Crossfade, Cold
Maybe I’m a Leo - Deep Purple, Machine Head
Evil...
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The Ultimate Question
As I’m getting close to the numeric answer to the biggest question of them all I’m getting asked to come up with a wish list. Since I usually tend to return most gifts I tend to be careful what I wish for. Hence this blog post.
I happen to own everything I’d ever wanted to own. That doesn’t mean that I have a load of stuff, on the contrary. But I do have the right stuff....
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Our Hardest Working Gadgets
There are tons of gadgets around but few that are really needed on a daily basis. Here are our top 5:
1) Our Delonghi Magnifica 3300 Espresso Machine is working hard between 6am and 9am PDT every day. We’ve had it for 4+ years and despite the 50% discount on the high purchase price it’s a long-term saving. Just imagine paying for 4 tall lattes at Starbucks every day during 4 years...
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“Cool things comes from people that are focused, passionate and that care about...”
– Unknown
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Lala Music
Lala relaunched a few days ago and is offering a music service that allows you to play all your iTunes music files via the web. It’s great not having to sync the iTunes library across computers when traveling or accessing your own library when using someone else’s computer. You do need to upload your whole library to the Lala servers but for my 3K+ files it only took about 24hrs with...
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“An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. If you’re not allowed to implement...”
– Paul Graham, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
WatchI recorded this intentionally bitmapped with my MacBook Air. I’ve also added video comments for each text post for a richer experience.
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Finally - an Inbox Greenlist
Back in my Yahoo! days our very innovative South Korean mail product team argued for the development of a Greenlist for your mail inbox. The idea was to make it easier for parents and users alike to manage the inflow of mail from the world into your kids or your own mailbox.
The way it works is that the user decides who in his Address Book should have access to his inbox - the rest of the emails...
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Back in Black
I wrote my first blog post on August 7, 2004 and it started as a creative outlet after a few years of not writing at all (or only PRDs). It turned into a passion to share my life and musings with friends and family. Writing is fun, it’s relaxing and you can smoke a cigar while writing. Few things in life can accommodate all those three criteria.
I started using Blogger but their agile...
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“What’s so unnatural about working for a big company? The root of the...”
– Paul Graham, You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
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Driven by Change
Yesterday we had our living room repainted and that gave me a great opportunity to move our furniture around and try out new combinations. I challenged the assumption that our book case only worked in one specific location and moved it 90 degrees onto another wall. Soon the plush sofa and our leather chairs followed.
I wanted to open up the living room to the fantastic bay view we have and make...
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iPhone Car Installation
I’ve finally installed my iPhone in the car to leverage it for handsfree calling, listening to music, watching video when parked and using Google maps when traveling. It was really quick once I got all the different pieces together:
1) Becker Aux cable ($25) to be connected in the back of the car stereo 2) iPhone AV cable to be connected to iPhone and the car stereo ($12) - seriously...
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Rethink Life!
I think we as a western society is standing at a crossroad. We’ll either keep speeding down the road of over-consumption, energy waste and rate race or start to rethink how we live. The recession is a perfect opportunity to redesign life to fit your true purpose.
We (Gen X/Y) are part of the most affluent and well-educated generation that has ever lived and yet we are just following in the...
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Web Startup 3.0
I know, I know. I apologize for using the washed out, commercial, non-descriptive dot-something in the title of this blog. But I do it with lots of sarcasm and wine… now over to what I’d really would like to share.
I’ve been part of several Internet startups and all of them were successful and had impressive growth until the point that hiring and organizational structures took...
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Using Your Cell Phone to Connect to The Internet -...
In 1995 I travelled around Europe with a buddy of mine with the mission of writing about how the Internet had started to spread across the continent. We used an old portable Mac, a PCMCIA-card with a cord and my cell phone to stay connected via the cell network. The max data transfer speed we received was around 14.4 kbps. It pretty much just enabled downloading our emails.
That was 13 years ago...
