I’m a couple days late in posting this, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t congratulate the team over at Technorati for two recent milestones. First, Technorati is going international, in partnership with Digital Garage, who will be launching a fully localized version in Japan. For more info on this, check out David Sifry’s and…
This is a few days old and many folks have already made reference to it, but Google Suggest is very cool feature that bears mentioning. But, even cooler, is Google’s announcement of their ambitious plan to digitize the collections of Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, the University of Michigan and the New York Public Library. Among these…
I’ve come across two cool hydrogen-powered toys recently: a hybrid solar / hydrogen fuel cell car kit from Hammacher Schlemmer that uses solar-powered electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen to power a fuel cell to drive the car’s electric motor, and a hydrogen-powered rocket from Estes Rockets that uses battery-powered electrolysis of water to produce…
If you are easily offended or a fan of Pantera or Damageplan, read no further. When I was a kid in junior high school, I was a metalhead. Heavy metal is what inspired me to begin playing guitar, for which I will always be grateful, though my tastes have broadened over the years. Pantera and…
I was out shopping today with Katherine and Quinn, and I spotted the following sign, which was proofread neither for grammar nor for irony. Perhaps Mrs. Miller (neé Noland), my high school English teacher, had too much influence over me in my formative years, but I’ve got a nearly reflexive compulsion to proofread everything I…
Every December, many VC firms (Mobius included) send out a flurry of holiday greeting cards to their VC colleagues, service providers, portfolio company management teams, entrepreneurs, friends, etc. And every December, I look forward to receiving the card that Onset Ventures sends to me. Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of sitting…
Our son Quinn is one year old today! Katherine & I have had an exhilirating, exhausting and wonderful first year with the little guy, who is (seriously) the best baby in the known universe. We’re proud of ourselves today given we’ve had a dog survive over two years in our care and a little boy…
But I play one on the web. With my search engine roots, I follow Google’s activities with great interest, given Excite’s prominence as an early leading search engine in the mid to late 90’s and subsequent demise in the bursting of the bubble. Perhaps I will opine at some later point on the “late-mover advantage”…
My good friend Martin Reinfried has a photoblog, where he took a couple shots that reminded me of the coolest (among a very nerdy fan-base) vegetable I know of: romanescu broccoli. The fractal, self-similar appearance of this vegetable is a great visual example of mathematics in the natural world and yet another example of the…
Katherine and I went out to see Sideways last night at the Aquarius. In our prior life (pre-parenthood) going to see a movie would hardly be a noteworthy event, but now our chances to see movies are few and far between, so we choose carefully, lest we waste our few silver screen bullets. Sideways lived…