Apr
28
If you keep asking, when will the primary season ever be over for the Dems?
Here’s what’s left in Primaries and Caucuses.
| Date | State | Delegates at Stake |
| May 3 | Guam | 9 |
| May 6 | Indiana | 84 |
| North Carolina | 134 | |
| May 13 | West Virginia | 39 |
| May 20 | Oregon | 65 |
| Kentucky | 60 | |
| June 1 | Puerto Ricco | 63 |
| June 3 | Montana | 24 |
| South Dakota | 23 |
Then, thank you world, it’s over!
SRC: NY Times
Apr
26
Online calendar apps tend to have clunky interfaces that require multiple steps to make an entry. Presdo is a deceptively simple site that allows you to describe a meeting in plain English like “Lunch with Sandra Wednesday” and Presdo will interpret and give you a screen to modify, if necessary, its interpretation.
You can also either enter where you want to meet or ask Presdo for a local list of appropriate restaurants and coffee shops. Presdo will allow you to send invitations and will save your calendar entry in your Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal or Yahoo.
The Presdo founder is Eric Ly, co-founder of LinkedIn and their first chief technology officer. He has bootstrapped Presdo with $35k of his own money and has written most of the code himself. Presdo is available for free.
Apr
26
Too Cool Not to Own
Filed Under Gadgets, Productivity | Comments
Being a boy-type and not a very young one, I’ve played with a lot of toys. If you use a digital camera, this one is just too cool (and useful) not to own.
The concept is simple — it’s a 2GB SD card for your camera that also knows how to communicate using Wi-Fi — so when you walk into your home after a day of clicking, the card will automatically securely upload your pictures to your computer and if you like it will also put the pictures on Flickr or your favorite photo sharing/social network.
Couldn’t be better from a productivity perspective, it eliminates an annoying and time-consuming aspect of taking digital pictures.
Technorati Tags: gadgets, digital camera, wifi
Apr
25
I liked Bill Clinton. He seemed reasonable. I defended him for 8 years in the White House and 8 years as an ex-President.
He was the Democratic president of my adulthood.
I didn’t want him impeached. I wished he had told the truth about Monica, but he was a guy.
Now he’s been highly visibly supporting his wife for president and I don’t like him. I want him to go away. I want to pretend that I never liked him.
Now I have to start defending Jimmy Carter.
Apr
25
The deal announced in February wherein AT&T Wi-Fi will replace T-Mobile Hot Spots in 7,000 Starbucks locations is going ahead. Like many T-Mobile users who already have been long using Starbucks as an office away from home, I’ve kept my head in the sand and each time I’ve passed a Starbucks, I’ve taken comfort in continuing to see the T-Mobile logo in the window. I had hoped the deal had just gone away.
But no, AT & T has started their rollout in San Antonio, TX area Starbucks stores making the Texas city the first “to deliver the complete AT&T Wi-Fi
experience in the U.S”, a possibly dubious honor.
As of May 1, “qualifying” AT&T customers can connect to the Internet from Wi-Fi enabled company-operated Starbucks locations nationwide. “Free AT&T Wi-Fi service is currently offered with AT&T’s three higher-speed residential broadband
packages, all small business broadband packages and with all AT&T U-verse(SM) offerings with high speed Internet service.”
For the rest of us shlemiels, “AT&T Wi-Fi service will reach company-operated Starbucks locations on a market-by-market basis throughout the year.”
How will we buy the service? “The experience will include a mix of free and paid connection options for both frequent and occasional Wi-Fi users and qualifying Starbucks customers.”
Stay tune, This deal will probably be good for all those annoying iPhone users.
Apr
25
He drinks urine, of course.
Shown being demonstrated at the Kyota Airport, he can clean a urinal in 10 seconds and save 8 liters of water.
Want one for home? He weighs 220 lbs. and costs about $1000, but would look cute sitting next to your refrigerator.
Why an elephant? Why not? Probably the trunk metaphor.
Via Gizmodo
Apr
24
Virtualization Giant Reports Strong Quarter
Filed Under Tech, Virtualization | Comments
VMware, the Microsoft of virtualization, just reported first quarter results. As if one needed other evidence, virtualization is a very healthy industry. Revenues were $438 million, an increase of 69% compared to the same quarter last year.
If you want to know where virtualization is going — international revenues increased 74% driven by “triple-digit business growth across Australia and emerging markets including Brazil, China, India and Russia.”
And the state of the market is good - VMware expects 2008 growth of approximately 50% compared to 2007.
Apr
24
Interesting idea here. Tell Cookthink.com what ingredients and cuisines you’d like in a recipe and a set of recipes that match your criteria is suggested (in theory).
We entered noodles + broccoli + Asian and got a decent list of Asian noodle recipes, unfortunately not many included broccoli, though we guess we could always have our broccoli on the side.
We liked that when we mis-spelled broccoli it corrected us (two cc’s and one i, evidentially). There’s also a cooking blog and a cooking reference.
If there was a little more explanation for the cognitive dissonance between the ingredients entered and the recipes offered this site would be a star.
Technorati Tags: cooking, web 2.0
Apr
23
New Investment Opportunities in the Flesh
Filed Under Chaos, Entrepreneurware, Oddness, Sex | Comments
Looking for new investments?
They call themselves the World’s Oldest Bull Market, AdultVest is an investment organization for the adult industry. AdultVest has just made its first investment in iPorn.com a company that creates “adult” content for mobile devices such as phones and ipods.
AdultVest was founded by Frank Koenig, a former New York hedge fund manager and Merrill Lynch staffer.
Links from the company’s website allow you to pitch your adult business idea or if you are “talent”, pitch your project to be funded.
Porn Factoids from the AdultVest site:
- “Adult” search requests - 68 Million Daily
- 25% of all search requests are “adult” in nature
- $57 Billion Annual Revenue for Adult Industry
- 72 Million Adult Website Visitors Daily
Apr
22
This 5.8 lb Everex gbook VA1500V laptop is priced at $399. It comes complete with a 15.4″ screen 1.5 GHZ processor, 512MB RAM, a 60GB hard disk, 802.11b/g wireless and a Linux-based distribution for an operating system and all the software that Linux makes available.
This a pretty cool laptop for the entrepreneur on a limited budget. Software has become a commodity why pay for Windows and Windows apps? There are no productivity apps that isn’t available either open source or online from Google or Zoho.
The Fremont, CA-based Everex calls themselves The Alternative PC Company. They have a nice line of reasonably-priced computers based on open source software.
We found this laptop as low as $349 being resold by newegg.com.