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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I drove past a church a while back that had the following tidbit on the sign out front:
“Goals are dreams with a deadline”
Since then I have been trying to give myself deadlines. I need to do a better job of hitting my deadlines, but I am getting there.
Anyway, I don’t really have any [...]
On January 3rd I declared that 2008 would be the year of the editor. Around the same time Seth Godin was saying the same kind of thing. Turns out for once that I was right.
Today Gabe Riveria announced that Techmeme would start employing the use of editors to sort through the results of the automated [...]
Sabrina pointed something out to me the other day: we rarely shop online.
When I stop and think about it, that is kind of odd. I mean, I live online, but I don’t shop there? Sure, I spend lots of money online, but that is on digital stuff (music, software, services). It is very rare that [...]
I have bought a new laptop every 18-24 months since August 1998 like clockwork. I didn’t notice that my lifecycle for laptops had been so consistent until last year. So, it is no surprise that I am starting to think about replacing my almost 2 year old MacBook Pro.
Luckily for me Apple has recently rolled [...]
The internet is changing. thanks to the popularity of destinations like Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook. The problem is that a significant amount of communication is taking place on these sites. This is resulting away from web standards for the most valuable aspects of our interaction online. This sucks.
Twitter is essentially creating their own “standard”, and [...]
I have been saying this for a few days on Twitter, but I wanted to post it here in a little more depth.
The greatest thing to come out of the 2008 Presidential Election may very well be the subsequent redefining of the Republican Party.
I am pretty stoked that Obama is going to be our next [...]
