A talk about me, my family and the things we love to do
Image via Wikipedia Baseball The other night there was a program on PBS talking about some of baseball’s history. The show focused on the early 1900′s through the 1920′s. Prior to the 20′s, almost all the attendees at baseball games were men. Image by The Rocketeer via Flickr Radio This all changed on August 5th, [...]
We ran across this tool for real time analytics about a week ago called “chartbeat” – which is just plain cool. I learned of it while enjoying the podcast “This Week in Startups” by Jason Calacanis and crew. #twist This offers a real time (within seconds) look at the visitors to our site. Some of [...]
Image by locusolus via Flickr Some say the only kind of fail that is bad, is to not fail at all. I had saved this post from unstructuredadventures for a while – and now seems like a great time to pull it out. It’s called “How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure” and it is GOOD! [...]
Yes – it is the Cal Poly Black Widow and they have tuned it to a mere 2700+ MPG. Wow. The best part is its not even a hybrid.
I’ve been tuned into This Week In Start-ups #TWIST since the beginning. But if you have not checked it out yet – @Jason is epic in a great talk he did at Penn State. Check it out. And let #TWIST know they are killing it.
For a while now I have been ranting within the company I work for that we throw away too much data – with particular emphasis on throwing away the data we have about our customers. As I listened to the TWIST #38 (This Week In Start Ups with Jason Calacanis) Jason absolutely nailed this point to the wall. He [...]
Dod Dodge is a very cool guy. He was ousted from Microsoft a few months back and has taken up residency at Google. He has a great post here in regards to goals and kicking butt. Google sets impossible bodacious goals…and then achieves them. The engineering mindset of solving the impossible problem is part of [...]
Image via Wikipedia Here is a post I found last week but didn’t get to it until this morning…this is a great post. It is from cio.com – “Should Your IT Department Support the IPhone” When the iPhone was first launched in June 2007, it was generally panned by IT managers and systems administrators. It [...]
This is brilliant. Just like many of the video game makers ahve been doing for a while. This patent, which was originally filed on July 7, 2008, describes a new system for promoting ads in online mapping applications. In this patent, Google describes // <![CDATA[// how it plans to identify buildings, posters, signs and billboards [...]
It’s funny, the newspaper I work for is trying hard – but spinning its tires a lot. We’ve gone from build a “super blog” network, to atomizing all content into a distribution engine to looking for the “million dollar idea”. It’s crazy, but it is possible to make a million with a blog. Here is [...]