fighting the lack of good ideas
At the beginning of 2008 I interviewed with a little outfit* in Annapolis to become their head of support. (This was just a month after interviewing with FogCreek.) Oddly enough that day, one of my former colleagues at Opsware who had moved-on was my tech screener. Needless to say, that aspect of the interview I…
After several years of pushing all of my personal email into Gmail, I’ve decided that relying [almost] exclusively on one provider is just not the best idea ever. Google is great. But, as with any cloud service, exclusively relying on just one provider is not the best. Going forward, I am going to be relying…
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” You’ve probably been asked that questions hundreds of times in your life – parents, friends, teachers, yourself, movies. It’s a common theme. For most of us, the decision gets made sometime in our late teens or during college: doctor, mom, lawyer, electrician, plumber, teacher, policeman,…
Went to Long Island to see my grandfather this week for a couple days. Saturday was his 81st birthday – and it was really great to spend some time with him Monday and Tuesday 🙂
An addition to my previous post on patents is due. If you are a non-producing entity, ie you have a patent “just to have it” (you’re a company, not a person, and you only have patents to use as legal ammunition), you relinquish rights to sue over infringement. If you are not producing anything the…
There are a few biggies that stick out in my mind to beĂ‚Â thankfulĂ‚Â for this year: my wifeĂ‚Â Christina a great job – the customers aren’t always amazing, but my job is pretty darn good beingĂ‚Â on the waiting list for our adoptionĂ‚Â from Ethiopia family – extended and immediate friends – all over the country and world
I am now running an official Haiku mirror: haiku.datente.com. Alpha 4.1 has been released, and you can get a copy from any of the mirrors.