In my previous post, I offered to mail my HD-DVD player and my (small) library of HD-DVDs to the author of the best Haiku about the high-definition format wars, provided the recipient cover shipping costs. First, here are the Haikus that were submitted (some via comments, some via email, a couple I authored just because…
First came Netflix’s announcement, and now that Wal-Mart has announced they’ll be dropping HD-DVD in June, Blu-Ray can unequivocally be declared the winner of this most recent round of format wars, and perhaps the last physical media format war. I actually own an HD-DVD player (some early Toshiba model) which I won as a prize…
After months of examining my own twitter use as well as the ways all my twitter friends use it, I’ve determined that by far the most common subject matter among the tweets I see is people bitching about their bad travel experiences. Therefore, I’ve decided that TWITTER is really an acronym that stands for: “Travel…
While I’ve never claimed to be a product naming or branding expert, I still wonder how this one got green-lighted by the folks at Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: a coffee named National Wildlife Blend? To me, this conjures up images of cute woodland creatures ground in with my coffee beans. Never mind hazelnut or chicory…
When I moved my blog to a new host a couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spruce up the design a bit. Our IT guru Ross suggested I come up with a graphic for my header, which he just put in place for me yesterday. I believe my new header graphic is suitably…
Last October, I attended the inaugural Lobby Conference in Hawaii. The conference was officially “off the record”, so I won’t divulge any salacious details, but one of the cool ideas behind the conference was to have every attendee make an introductory video about themselves. All the videos were then gathered onto iPod touches that were…
I blogged about this long ago, but when ranked by self-similarity, fractality (is that a word?) or as an exemplar of logarithmic spirality in nature, Romanesco Broccoli is my favorite vegetable by far. I was at Boulette’s Larder at the Ferry Building Marketplace in San Francisco last week and they had this particularly fine specimen…
If you are seeing this post, you have landed at the new home for McInblog, now hosted on the same box as the upcoming Foundry Group blog, Feld Thoughts, Ask The VC and Seth’s Blog, and it is now running on Moveable Type. Please let me know if you find anything amiss. Foundry’s own very…
Please pardon the dust — if you are a regular reader, you’ve probably noticed broken images, broken links, a broken feed and all sorts of craziness on McInblog. I’ll explain why later, but recent problems have convinced me to migrate my blog to a new location and with any luck, that will happen in the…
This week I made my annual pilgrimage to the NAMM show with my good friends Carl and Jason. For the uninitiated, NAMM stands for the International Music Products Association. Leave it to musicians to create an acronym that doesn’t match the formal name of the organization. How Spinal Tap can you get? But at least…