Archive for July, 2005

I love Sci-Fi Friday

Friday, July 29th, 2005

The sci-fi channel has been getting better and better and it's now gotten to the point where i'm looking forward most of the week to friday, and not just for the break from a stressful job. I got Jaimie hooked on sci-fi with Buffy. We've both watched every episode of ...

Risks associated with starting a business

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

The problem with starting a business is that it takes money to do it. So for some period of time you have to live in the precarious state where money is flowing out, but not enough is flowing in to replace it. So logically you would actually be better off ...

Experiment in Management (Part 3)

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

So the first complete round of our little experiment is now over. The division was divided up into 12 groups. Each group was given a topic and told to come up with a list of quick wins for product development as well as a bit of a longer term goal. ...

The joys of tivo

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Last night our poor little tivo gave up the ghost. It had served us well for almost 3 years, I can't believe it's been that long. I believe that the hard drive was the culprit for its death. For the last day it was having trouble at certain spots ...

I finally did it!! (got a linux laptop to suspend)

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I had been trying for months, but I was finally able to do it. What you might ask was so complicated. Well, in this case it was getting my linux laptop to suspend. This had been a major annoyance that I couldn't walk away from the laptop for awhile ...

Crazy Ideas

Thursday, July 7th, 2005

I went to the 106Miles meeting last wednesday night. This is a really interesting group of engineers in Silicon Valley with entrepreneurial motivations. Started going to this group at their second meeting after hearing about it on Jeremy Zawodny's blog, which interestingly enough I had started reading because I ...