There was a “pro-business” Supreme Court ruling yesterday that scares me as a small business owner. At issue were campaign contributions from corporations to political campaigns (and I assume PACs and the like).
The losing side is lamenting that under the new ruling, the wealthy will have a greater influence over politics by using corporations as [...]
Remember that scene in Office Space about having a million dollars? Here is a neat little animated refresher:
In the movie, Peter goes on to say that if he had a million dollars he would do absolutely nothing. That is the whole point. If you have enough money that you don’t have to work for a [...]
It has been a little over a year since I created a new venture with Nicholas Holland. We created Side Hobby LLC after Nashville’s first Startup Weekend to pursue our project gpsAssassin.
When we first started out we were (foolishly, but commonly) optimistic that it would just be a little 3 month side hobby (thus the [...]
I have not been using an RSS reader for months. Lately I have been trying to look at my NetNewsWire again, but there are a couple of things that frustrate me.
The first is that it is not easy for me to share items. I used to be able to clip them, but now that NNW [...]
No, this is not a post about gpsAssassin (though that would have been a good and appropriate title).
I am talking about Google Maps.
Back in 2006 I first saw Google Maps on a phone with GPS. At the time I had a Sprint a900 and had to do a little hackery to get it to work. [...]
I can’t believe how long it has been since I have posted anything. At some point I just fell out of the habit of blogging and I started thinking that any posts that could break the silence would need to be quite substantial in order to warrant the infrequent posting. I don’t like that.
There has [...]
I just read an article in the Nashville Business Journal about some ambiguous program filed under the keyword “entrepreneur”1. Read Chamber wants to lure tech start-ups to see what I mean.
First off, I can’t even tell what the article is about. Is it about some Chamber initiative? Is it about the Accelerator2 program at [...]
It looks like I am going to get to participate in some pretty neat events in Nashville over the next month.
Technology Nashville – Thursday May 21st
I am going to be participating on a panel discussion on "Dashboards, Widgets and Other Components to Track Performance". The discussion will be moderated by Bayard Saunders and will also [...]
I just read Fred Wilson’s recap of the Hacking Education meeting. I am really looking forward to seeing the full transcript. While we wait for that I thought I might share how a single magazine article about self-education changed my life.
First, a little background. For whatever reason, I didn’t do well in school. I [...]
Remember the good old days when you had something to say and you wrote a blog post? If it was a topic you were really hot on it might end up being a few posts. The very act of writing the post would help you form opinions and thoughts. If you were lucky it [...]
