We had a great codejam in Allentown this week and next week I'm on the road with my family for our 11th anniversary trip. There is so much going on. So many changes ahead. Instead of embedding…
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A Whole New World
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"Mr. Clean" House Peters, Jr. dies
Over a decade ago, when my wife and I were first dating, I shaved my head and got an earring and some quality sunglasses. I loved the look. Without the glasses, I looked a little like Mr. Clean.…
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Over in Denver, where the Air is even thinner
Catching up on my feeds, I saw this funny video video in a post by Denver-based early stage investor Brad Feld. It compares the Lenovo X300 to the MacBook Air. I bought an Air a few months back…
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Get Shirky
I am speeding along on a train somewhere in New Jersey. In minutes I will be in Philadelphia for this week's Crowd Fusion codejam. Probably on TechMemeI came across a link to an article by Clay…
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The Audacity of Code
In the end, that's what this internet is about. Do we participate in a project of cynicism or a project of code? Project managers call on us to code. Investors call on us to code. I'm not talking…
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Web developers: Crowd Fusion is hiring!
Although Craig and Ryan work quickly, we have so much on our roadmap that our two-man dev team needs to turn into six ASAP. Then ten soon after that. We have more than a dozen projects that we can…
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Web designers: Crowd Fusion is hiring!
When I put out a call for web designerslast summer, I needed someone with exceptional markup skills. Well, I found someone who can code with the bestof them. Now that Crowd Fusion is taking off, I…
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The Best of TBAW: February 2004
The writers strikecontinues and so do the TBAW reruns. In case you were wondering like my dad, that last post about the Aqua Dots recalldidn't require a team of comedy writers. February started off…
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Pirates for Dummies
I was staying at my aunt's house a few years ago and across the room I saw the greatest book ever: Pirates for Dummies. My aunt immediately became way more cool. I made my way across the room and…
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Outed on Twitter
My wife guessed my Twitter address and followed me. One of my favorite web designersfound me from her blog and followed me. So I came out of the Twitter closet and followed a bunch of people I like.…
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Boots Randolph, Mr. Sax Man
Boots Randolph, the saxophone player who created the 1963 instrumental masterpiece "Yakety Sax," died yesterday at the age of 80. Yakety Sax was best known as the theme song to both The Benny Hill…
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Darth Vader on Twitter
He's not a teenage girl, but he still makes for some entertaining Twitter moments. Of course Darth Vader has more followers than friends-- he rules by fear! There are two basic styles of leadership…
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Names, names and more names
I watched a couple of our rocking TV Squad bloggers interview Zach Braff and Sarah Chalkeon the set of Scrubs and when Joel Keller told Sarah that he's from TV Squad, I got a little chill. That's my…
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CodeJams, jazz and collectives
I saw a nice article comparing jazz to businessin USA Today when we were away and I didn't get to finish it so I hunted for it online. Fortunately, USA Today's search didn't suck. A search on "jazz…
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San Francisco, here I come
I have a four-year unbroken streak of Fall San Francisco trips that was in danger of not making it to year five, but AOL came through with a Web 2.0 Conferenceticket for me. In 2002, I did one of my…
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X-Men: The Last Stand
I took Niki, Jack and my whole team to see X-Men III at the end of the last CodeJam. I didn't want to blog about the movie immediately because I couldn't tell if I liked it or not. To me, the giant…
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Gavin and Alex
I've been inadvertantly favoring Alex for a long time now. It has been a bunch of little things like a MacBook Pro and health insurance and Gavin has been toughing it out on the startup side. I think…
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CodeJam quotes
There were no good quotesfrom our CodeJam in White Plains in early June. We were working on Netscape and we got too much done. Our L.A. CodeJam in March that was mentioned in The New York Timeswas…
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Secret Project X
Tonight at midnight we are launching a public beta of Secret Project X. Jason seems to have gotten jealous of my CodeJams because he went and hosted his own version of CodeJamin NYC tonight. Wait a…
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Like a trip through the past to that day in the rain
On Friday, Niki and I saw Foreigner and Styx at Jones Beach. It was our one last date night before starting 9 days of CodeJam. Foreigner was great. I was looking forward to the scalding saxophone in…
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Adventure's his bread. Excitement's his butter.
We have another one of those CodeJams coming up soon and the pressure is on me to make it as interesting as our last one. This weekend Niki and I caught up on three episodes of Aliasand three
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V for Viceroy
CodeJam 5 wrapped up Sunday morning. All of the east coast participants -- meaning the entire team -- packed up and spent the rest of the day traveling home. Gavin and I flew back together and were…
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CodeJam 5
Eight of us flew from the east coast to work in Santa Monica for the week. It's not really warm here, but somehow I got a sunburn on my face walking to breakfast yesterday. Neat. Everyone refers to…
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