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If you look at this picture of my son Josh catching up on his favorite TV shows this morning before breakfast, you'll see a flat panel display in the upper right of the picture. And yet Josh is watching on...

Digit is still alive. Can you believe it's been a year, two days ago? First, he died. Then, three months later, I got schmittens. Then he came back from the dead. After that, there was a raffle that put him...

The National Venture Capital Association is about to roll out a media effort aimed at getting the word out about the great IPO drought of 2008. The first stop in this campaign was the NY Times: Matt Richtel wrote about...

the American system ... proved to be flexible, resourceful, and resilient, able to correct mistakes and shift its attention. A focus on American economic decline prevented it. The problem today is that the American political system seems to have lost...

Vruz sent me a copy of this CIBC research report called "Heading For The Exit Lane." I read it this morning and I've been thinking about it for most of today. So I uploaded it to Scribd and reblogged my...

I said, "What if we get married at the Oakland City Clerk's office? I saw a picture of Kira and Rachel's ceremony they had there yesterday, and there's a wedding-ring quilt hanging behind them. So it can't be all that...

Despite a seventy-year long decline in its relative economic place, London played its weakening hand with impressive political skill. Its history offers some important lessons for the United States.

I've written about "social media optimization" in the past. This is the crude social media dashboard I have on the bottom of every blog post. I wish the technorati link and the outside.in link would show how many links there...

Bow bells? Seven bells? Hell's bells?

Today, when most people think about globalization, they still think about it mostly in terms of the huge amounts of cash - currency traders swap about $2 trillion a day - that sloshes around the globe, rewarding some countries and...

Image via Wikipedia I lost my Nokia N95 this morning riding around Paris on a Velib. By the time I realized that it had fallen out, I was back in our neighborhood and there was no way I was going...

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Managing subcontractors and distributed projects is easy and fun. No wait, that's a lie. Luckily, a good version control may be just what you need to keep your projects on track.

 

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It's the most watched video on the internet right now (and only went up four days ago), but if you've missed it, please go watch Matt dance. I'd embed it here, but you should watch it in high quality (button...

Looking at dozens of countries over decades of development, from South Korea to Argentina to Turkey, one finds that the pattern is strong - a market based economy that achieves middle income status tends, over the long run, toward liberal...

A year ago the city of Paris rolled out a citywide bike system called Velib. As you walk around the city, you see bike stations that look like this: It works a lot like a public transportation system. There are...

Are you a developer who blogs actively (and comments on other blogs)? Do you love presenting at a conference as much as writing code? Have you meaningfully contributed to an open source project? Do you like meeting new people? Do...

The United States has developed relationships that are much more than strategic in two ... cases, with Britain and Israel. In both, the ties were broad and deep, going well beyond government officials and diplomatic negotiations. The two countries knew...

I got a Nokia N95 to use as a camera on our trip to europe. It's not the greatest phone, but it's one hell of a camera. Here's a photo I took of a card game we played in the...

The memorial for Mom was so hard. But it was pretty great, too. The church was full of people, many of whom I didn't even recognize. Others I knew by sight, but would never have been able to put a...

Which box is that?

You are darlings. Thank you for your kind emails -- they mean the world to me. They ARE hard to read sometimes, though, because you're SO nice, so you understand why I closed comments on that last post. Would have...

I'll be toddling off.

My little mama died this morning, peacefully. It has been a beautiful day, and the hardest day I've ever known. We were so lucky. And I am so unbearably sad.

Mom ain't doing so well. This whole bringing-her-home to die thing is on one hand: a) Perhaps the single hardest thing I've ever been part of. It's at once heart-wrenching and soul-gratifying to be the people who keep her comfortable,...

La just sent me this picture from her phone -- she's one day from the end of the ride, somewhere north of Ventura. On Wednesday, the AIDS Lifecycle came close to where I am, so I got to go out...

It's good to fly high - or is it?

My sister Christy's wizard rock (wrock) band Knockturn Alley will be playing at Linnaea's in San Luis Obispo this Saturday night. Great interview with them HERE, and it also has a picture of them in which you just see the...

Lala's birthday was yesterday. She turned forty, and she rode the longest leg of the AIDS Lifecycle on the same day. That was taking a chance, to combine those two things, since she has been equating forty with OLD. (Let...