Archive for the 'possibilities' Category

Building a Startup in a Week

Friday, April 25th, 2008

My co-worker, Kevin, recently filmed the pilot episode of a new reality series on “A Startup in a Week”.  A team of startup guys, including Adam Loving, built a Facebook app to raise money for good causes like building a school in Cambodia.
There are 5 episodes, and some fun drama — debates over how to monetize the app, […]

Windows Server 2003 on EC2

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Here is a tutorial for getting Windows Server instances running in EC2.  Might be a nice stop-gap in the short term.  I will be trying out these instructions shortly.

Arnoldo Talisman and Shockin’ Nigerian Hip-Hop

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

Dave Winer is lamenting that it’s not too easy to find cheap/free firewood nearby.  He makes some great points.  Eric Schmidt of Google says it right; we are still in the infancy of this technology.
But it’s getting better every day.  For years, I have been trying to locate information on UGO, a Nigerian rapper who […]

Walk the Line

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

The Levi’s commercial covering ‘Walk the Line’ is presumably a light piece about young love, but it’s got an undercurrent of ’suffocated love‘ that’s undeniable.  The phrase, “because you’re mine” has always been jarring to me.  I remember one woman I knew many years ago, who explained to me “I want to have a baby, because then […]

Don’t Erase

Monday, September 18th, 2006

So, I recently finished Dunbar’s “Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language”.  Although I am not convinced about Nostratic, Dunbar gave more than enough material to convince me I was right about past/future tenses in Chinese and English.  I think it is pretty obvious, and was probably common sense to people with access to Alexandria library.
I […]