I won’t ruin the surprise ending.
Monthly Archive for February, 2008
Thu
Feb
28
2008
Getting cars off the road and data into the skies 0 cmts
Sometime in early 2006 or so, Robin Chase came to a few Berkman talks. When we did our introductions, she claimed to be the founder of Zipcar and to be working on a new startup involving wireless mesh networks and transportation. I wondered at the time, wireless internet traveling from car to car? Am I sitting next to a crazy person, or a brilliant one? I think the answer is probably the latter. She doesn’t go into many details in her TED talk, but you can fill them in yourself.
Wed
Feb
27
2008
She climbs 0 cmts
As the blurry cameraphone photo can attest, my mother did, indeed, rock climb. We found a place in Long Beach that has tons of top roping and doesn’t require a belay test, and spent a couple hours climbing and sweating. I’m proud of my mom for trying something new and doing so well, and proud of myself for somehow persuading her to do it. 
Tue
Feb
26
2008
Suggestions 3 cmts
Looking for suggestions on things to do and visit in the San Francisco area on my first solo trip anywhere ever. I’m thinking this and this to start, along with standard wandering on foot, and maybe renting a bike at some point. But frankly the whole thing makes me nervous.
The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors 0 cmts
“Closing a door on an option is experienced as a loss, and people are willing to pay a price to avoid the emotion of loss,” Dr. Ariely says. In the experiment, the price was easy to measure in lost cash. In life, the costs are less obvious — wasted time, missed opportunities. If you are afraid to drop any project at the office, you pay for it at home.
"The Advantages of Closing a Few Doors" by John Tierney in the New York Times
Fri
Feb
22
2008
A process piece looking at the New York Times reporting on John McCain’s alleged affair with a lobbyist in the late 90s.
Wed
Feb
20
2008
Software Notes (Mac Edition) 3 cmts
Soon after Alcor released the source code, Ankur Kothari cleaned up Quicksilver, improved the memory footprint, and fixed a bunch of problems and bugs. Download it here.
The 1.4 beta of iNdependence was recently released. It allows for (nearly) one-click jailbreaking and unlocking of iPhones running 1.1.3 software. I tried it this weekend and it worked great and was pretty easy.
Things is a neat and full-featured todo manager app. It’s sorta pricey, though, and doesn’t talk to iCal, plus I was having some trouble getting my head around how I’m supposed to use it to be more efficient. Now I’m giving Anxiety a shot. It is cute, simple, free, and integrates with iCal and Apple Mail using Leopard’s built in todo support.
Tue
Feb
19
2008
Hoaxer Haunts Earnings Calls 0 cmts
[A]nnoyed executives and analysts are wondering why someone would want to play a game with dry business calls that normally follow a tightly controlled formula — unless the game is the whole point. They can’t figure out how the caller is getting any benefit from so closely mimicking them. “If he was spoofing I would hope he’d be funnier,” says Bill Schmitz, an analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities.
"Hoaxer Haunts Earnings Calls" by Betsy McKay in the Wall Street Journal. From the random humor department.
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