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 that show and we’re very [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Risks associated with starting a business
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 doing nothing at all, at [...]
Experiment in Management (Part 3)
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. I personally was a member [...]
The joys of tivo
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 in recordings. It would get stuck [...]
I finally did it!! (got a linux laptop to suspend)
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 without worrying about the battery dying. [...]
Crazy Ideas
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 found his account of difficulties with [...]