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Entries from January 2008
January 19, 2008
Ode To The Cigar
A few years ago I started to get more serious about smoking cigars. I always liked cigars but was not too into them. Every so often I would be given one or would buy one. Boo was my once-a-year supplier. Every year at my mother-in-law’s Christmas party he would bring one for me. When my [...]
January 13, 2008
The Cost Of A Startup
Once a month, on the second Friday of most months, a CTO networking group that I belong to meets. Each meeting starts with a speaker – speaker in the loose term because it is not a fixed format – and then leads to questions and answers by the members and to discussions. This Friday the [...]
January 6, 2008
Downtime
A couple of weeks ago there was a blog post at TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) regarding web sites experiencing downtime as well as infrastructure companies experiencing failures in their operations. Obviously, the first take was on the revenue loss that each one of those companies experienced. In the case of the infrastructure company the concern and criticism [...]
January 6, 2008
In The Pursuit Of Art
Recently I have gone bonkers with photography. What I mean by recently is the last couple of weeks. I have been bonkers about photography for a very long time. The last two week however, have been extra bonkers. I have a Nikon D80 that I bought about a year ago. This year I gave myself [...]
