TechStars - two weeks left to apply
A while back, “Brad Feld”:http://www.feld.com/ asked “Don”:http://www.donloeb.com/ and I to be mentors for “TechStars”:http://www.techstars.org/. (Don was a mentor last year as well.) The list of “mentors”:http://www.techstars.org/mentors/ is impressive (my participation notwithstanding!), and the overall program is a fantastic idea. In short: 10 startups get picked from among hundreds, receive seed funding, and get access to [...]
I’m not dead yet…
…but wow, I’d forgotten how painful moving is. Not painful in the “so sorry to see you go” way. No, the goodbyes have been sweet, and appreciated, and since we’re moving to the Bay Area, we’re already scheduling visitors - it’s not like we’re never seeing our friends again. No, it’s painful in the “what [...]
Clinton@Marist lives on
Earlier today I mentioned an e-mail list I participated in back in 1992, the Clinton@Marist list. Formed in August of ‘92, it was the first use I know of by a presidential campaign of the Internet. Part discussion list, part campaign coordination tool, part rapid response vehicle - hard as it is to believe, it [...]
ThinkPad z61t - I’m in love
About two months ago, my old ThinkPad started to show signs of distress. The wifi couldn’t get an IP address at home (but it could at work). Then it stopped getting an IP at work, necessitating an ethernet cable strewn across the desk to get connectivity. Then overall sluggish behavior took hold, causing ever-lengthier boot-ups.
It [...]
The big day is upon us
Just got back to my desk from the Innovation Awards, and look what was waiting on my desktop:
That’s right, IE7 just downloaded automatically via Automatic Update.
Now the fun begins!
IE7 Shipping - a comment on the stylesheet
Fred “notes”:http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/10/is_anyone_else_.html that IE7’s default behavior is to ignore a publisher’s XSLT stylesheet (if the publisher has pointed to one, which the vast majority of FeedBurner publishers have done), and he’s not exactly thrilled about this.
While poking around my computer config the other day, I noticed a new setting in “Internet Options” that addresses Fred’s [...]
TechCocktail - a great party
Last night was the second “TechCocktail”:http://www.techcocktail.com/ event, and it was incredible. I had to miss the first because of a family commitment, but I’m really glad I got to make it last night. “Eric”:http://www.ventureweek.com/ and “Frank”:http://www.somewhatfrank.com/ really outdid themselves: over 300 in attendance when all was said and done. The founder of Vonage was there, [...]
Update on Outlook 2007 and RSS support
Thanks to “Patrick Schmid”:http://pschmid.net/blog/, a Microsoft MVP, we recently discovered that Outlook 2007 “doesn’t reveal itself in its user agent”:http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/10/10/61 when requesting RSS feeds. It instead shows up as Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft has more details “here”:http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_affronti/archive/2006/10/10/RSS-_2600_-the-user_2D00_agent-string.aspx.
While I’m not thrilled with the current state of affairs, I’m grateful to Patrick for identifying the original issue [...]
Coral CDN - A new toy!
Unless I’m missing something, “Coral CDN”:http://www.coralcdn.org/ is a really big deal. How’ve I missed this? At dinner last week with “David Lawrence”:http://www.thedavidlawrenceshow.com/, David mentioned in passing that he uses Coral CDN for all of his podcast file downloads. That means he incurs almost no bandwidth costs, and the CDN kicks in automatically.
Few steps back. Akamai [...]
Firefox 2 Feed Support
I downloaded and installed “Firefox 2 RC1″:http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html last night, and on the balance I’m really impressed. The memory handling seems (so far) to be vastly improved over Firefox 1.x (I’ve had to kill the app pretty much once/day because of memory leaks). The UI is much more visually appealing, and they appear to have done [...]
