GIANT MUTANT SPIDERS!!! I’ve mentioned all the crazy wildlife around here before. But this thing was straight out of Arachnophobia… Apologies for the crummy picture — taken with a camera phone. P.s. It’s not really the size of my house.…
What We Do… Part 1.
Drum roll please. Here we go: part one in a series of several posts. There’s a fundamental and growing conflict in today’s workplace. Corporations look to individual productivity as a means to drive profitability. In many, if not most businesses,…
Startup Weekend comes to Chapel Hill
As I’ve said before, I’m not sold on the idea of a StartupWeekend as a way to build a business, but I do think it is a brilliant way to help build the startup community. If you have any interest…
The Pre-Apocalypse Road Warrior…
I mentioned the Franklin Rex card previously. It was a marvel. I also mentioned that I had a better mobile office setup in 1997 than I do now. The Laurel to my Rex’s Hardy was the HP Jornada 820. This…
Semantic, schmantic…
There’s been some increased buzz lately about the semantic web and what it all means. Alex Iskold, CEO of AdaptiveBlue has a great piece on SemanticWeb.com, titled "The Semantic Curmudgeon". AdaptiveBlue make an interesting browser plugin that understands context and…
Fun with double-edged swords…
My family and I live in some kind of crazy wildlife-gone-mad bit of suburbia, so animals of all shapes and sizes are a common sight. We get deer, turtles, frogs, insane kamikaze squirrels and bizarre nocturnal beasties that seem to…