Stanford Summit kicks off
Tony Perkins (above) and Tom Byers kicked off the Stanford Summit tonight. Tony Perkins talked about ‘discovery’ on the web, a space he describes as wide open.
He also talked about old and new media brands extending into old and new forms. Another topic was green tech which is the #3 category for VC money, according […]
Stanford Summit
AlwaysOn’s Stanford Summit starts this evening: we’ll be going over tomorrow to blog live from the scene. Supposed to be about a thousand attendees… some very interesting sessions, too…
Goodies from dotcom garden
Linda did a little harvesting yesterday afternoon: dotcom garden continues to produce a steady stream of tomatoes, cukes, beans and herbs. It’s just enough to freshen and pick up our home-made cuisine. The French idea of a potager is very good IMHO…
Greeted by the Bay Bridge
The Bay Bridge greeted me as I crept out from under the covers this morning. Sweet spouse Linda, knowing we had late medical appointments at UCSF, booked us a room at Hotel Vitale, across the Embarcadero from the Ferry building. While Linda jogged six miles downt to AT&T park and beyond this morning, I cruised […]
AlwaysOn’s Stanford Summit
It’s been a couple years since we’ve attended AlwaysOn’s Stanford Summit. Tony Perkins was kind enough to offer me a blogger pass this year, which I’ve accepted, and already have a couple of interesting invitations from innovative startups. So, stay tuned for some surprises, starting July 31….
Our patio goes away
Linda decided that she has had it with our patio: it has served us well these last 17 years IMHO, a big outdoor room where we have meals in summer and linger over Sunday morning breakfasts. So, in her typical type A way, she quickly found a landscape designer, Danna Breen, who whipped up what […]
A new OS for our AMD machine
We did get the AMD 64-bit machine tucked in to the cheesy crate as planned, and have decided that Fedora Core 7 - at $9.95 from Linuxcentral.com - is a better OS choice than Vista, which comes in at a minimum of $215. Vista will probably have more drivers for cams et al., but I’m […]
Funky USB on a G5 Mac
Our eldest G5 Mac - a 1.8 GHz single-processor machine - doesn’t seem to want to stay connected via its USB ports on the back. The single front port works OK, but it keeps dropping things - keyboard, mouse, KVM switch, card reader et al. that connect to the two ports in back. Anybody […]
Martha and me
Well, no sooner does moi appear on the cover of Wired, but the very next month, there’s my domestic hero, Martha Stewart, gracing the same editorial real estate. Martha is ‘geeking out’ in the annual Wired DIY issue offering advice on everything from digicams to a DIY financial empire. Hmmm… better to take Martha’s advice, […]
The LAN upgrade ‘commenceth’
Here’s gulker.com’s LAN rack after the new Iomega 500 GB NAS drive went in. The Iomega shares the top shelf with a couple of switches, while the shelf below has the old, full, 250 GB Western Digital NAS drives, along with the 2 Gigabit switches that make up the core wired network.
Next up will be […]