Monthly Archives: January 2005

Tom Stienstra’s New Great Outdoors TV Show

It’s great to see that outdoors writer Tom Stienstra has a new Great Outdoors TV show in the San Francisco Bay Area on UPN Cable 12 Sundays at 6:30 PM. I was able to catch his first show on Tivo … Continue reading

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Tomcat’s Final Flight

Jack Dorsey writes in the Virginian-Pilot about what happens to old airplanes, like the F-14 Tomcats the Navy’s taking out of service. I remember my first airshow experience seeing what, at the time, was the almost brand new F-14 in … Continue reading

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iPod Shuffle = Amazing!

I couldn’t resist and ordered an Apple iPod Shuffle on announcement day. My Shuffle arrived yesterday and I got around to loading it up tonight. The USB 2.0 loading from my PowerBook was a bit slower than the FireWire loading … Continue reading

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Blink

I took Malcolm Gladwell‘s new book Blink on a trip with me yesterday. It’s a quick read – but not in the sense that it’s at all lightweight! As others have already said, it’s a great book — right up … Continue reading

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A Longevity Strategy: Never Retire

New York Times columnist William Safire has penned his final regular Op-Ed column this morning in which he explains why he’s making the change. Here’s why I’m outta here: In an interview 50 years before, the aging adman Bruce Barton … Continue reading

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A Bump on the Head

Turns out I had a basal cell carcinoma near the right temple area on my head. I had first noticed a darker “mole” sometime around Thanksgiving and then, as we often do, started playing with it — which caused it … Continue reading

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No Place to Hide

ABC News’ Peter Jennings takes a look at Robert O’Harrow’s new book “No Place to Hide“. The first chapter of the book is available online. “The amount of information publicly available to businesses is mind-boggling. It really belies the notion … Continue reading

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Unite Us = Unitus Microfinance Accelerator

Dave McClure hosted a group dinner last night in Palo Alto for a number of us to learn more about Unitus, a microfinance accelerator based in Redmond, WA. What’s a microfinance accelerator you ask? Unitus is all about assisting existing … Continue reading

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Credit Card Solicitations

If you hate having your mailbox filled up with direct mail solicitations for credit cards, you’ll love my partner Bryan Derman‘s new opinion piece titled “Whither the Empire?“.

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Donald Neff – American Artist

I first met Don Neff when he was programming merchant acquiring systems for a living. He went on to develop Tellan Software, providing card accepting merchants with Mac and PC-based POS systems. He sold that business a while back and, … Continue reading

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