Saw this on Lindsay’s mini-feed on Facebook today.
Awesome. By the way, Lindsay is on Tumblr too!
Month: January 2008
Click, Click, Click – Bishop Allen
With all of the photos I’m taking these days I thought this song was approrpriate.
Many thanks to Fred for turning me on to this band. This song is from the album The Broken String. Great song and great album.
Low light photography (continued)
In my ongoing series about learning about my new Canon 40d and low light photography, I took this photo just as our dog Jackson was dozing off last night.
I didn’t do any post processing but did play around with the white balance in the camera a bit. ISO 1600, no flash, aperture f/2.8 (EXIF data here)
There was no doubt about it. The message from Iowa tonight was simple, but deafening: If you’re a candidate for President, and you voted for the war, you lose. And if you voted and voted and voted for the war – and never once showed any remorse – you really lose. In short, if you had something to do with keeping us in this war for four-plus years, you are not allowed to be the next president of the United States.
No Feeling – Beth In Battle Mode
This is a fun, pure rock and roll song. Adding to my workout playlist.
Dear Rhapsody: We want our YottaMusic back.
I’ve written about my love affair with YottaMusic in the past many times.
YottaMusic is a beautiful, easy to use web front end to Rhapsody. And it provides a whole host of additional functionality like Twitter support, integration with Last.fm and integration with Sonos.
I’m addicted to YottaMusic.
But today when I went to YottaMusic, the website says:
“Thanks for visiting. We’re sorry to announce that Yottamusic is no longer in operation”. There is also links to export your YottaMusic library or playlist data as XML or upload it to Rhapsody. (the YottaMusic guys are a class act).
I sent Luke Matkins, the founder of YottaMusic, a note this morning to find out what happened and how we could help.
It turns out that YottaMusic was shut down at the “request” of the Rhapsody folks. That’s really awful and poor judgement on Rhapsody’s part. The Rhapsody web site is quite unusable and YottaMusic is like a breath of fresh air. But for some reason they were considered some sort of threat. Blech.
Please join me and let’s together ask the Rhapsody team to let Luke & YottaMusic live.
We need it.
Update: Fred’s post on YottaMusic shutting down
Update2: TechCrunch follows up with the details for the shutdown.
Non competes: should we really unilaterally disarm?
Mike Feinstein has a post today about the non-compete issue.
It seems that Mike believes that non-competes should ultimately go away. Hurray!
But he also brings up an issue I’ve heard several times since we put our stake in the ground. Should we really unilaterally disarm in the interim?
The question is: should companies and investors get rid of their non-competes right now while the law still allows them in the state of MA. Won’t it put us and our companies at a disadvantage?
That is a reasonable concern.
And here are my thoughts.
-If you want to wait for the state government to make a change before you make a change that that’s okay (not exactly ideal but okay). It’s progress and we’ll take it. All of us at the Alliance for Open Competition want your support that you actually want a law that makes MA more like CA on this topic. We need all of you to be loud and proud on this point.
-But I would also contend that companies that keep this type of clause in the interim are actually going to hurt themselves and their investors over time. As one specific example, Google now has an office in Cambridge. And it’s growing. And they are hiring the smartest folks they can find. And guess what? They are not requiring their employees to sign non-compete clauses. So if you are a new MIT grad will you take a job at Google Cambridge or at EMC or another local company that requires non-competes.
So as my friend Nabeel put it recently. Do you want to build your startup out of fear or promise?