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Does TechCrunch Matter?

Does TechCrunch matter to your customers?

That was one of the questions raised by Sean Johnson at BarCampMadison, where he gave a presentation titled "How To Burn Your Business Into The Ground – Lessons in Entrepreneurship"

I was reminded of this when I saw that TechCrunch just got a CEO. (Many people are asking “Why does a blog needs a CEO?”)

Sean’s point was that, as cool as TechCrunch is, at the end of the day, do your customers in the real world really care, or even know about TechCrunch? For most of us, we build things that are used by average people, not the select few digerati that are hip to the Web 2.0 lingo. There are tons of successful companies that have never been, and will probably never be profiled on TechCrunch, yet they do great work and make their customers happy. And that’s where the focus should be. Happy customers. Slashdot, Digg, TechCrunch, they all serve as these spotlights to shine on the latest online-thing that will give you brighter whites and cure what ails you, but it’s just a small percentage of a small percentage of people who pay attention to these things.

At the end of the day, do your customers, the ones paying the bills, really care if your company was profiled by some nerd news site?

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Fireseed Streaming Supercomputer(FS3)

Those crazy guys a Fireseed are trying to build a supercomputer. It’ll be called the Fireseed Streaming Supercomputer aka “FS3”

The FS3 project is a recently launched ad hoc tech project to design, build and program a GPU-cluster supercomputer, rather than the traditional CPU-cluster.

Join them at Bucketworks on Sunday March 18th, 2007 at 2:30PM if you wanna get involved…

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Lightning DST Problem?

Does Lightning have a Daylight Saving Time problem?

Lightning DST bug?

I don’t know when to go to the Apple Store! (18:00 is not equal to 5PM…)

Ah, I just checked for updates and a new version of Lightning was installed. Looks like they had a DST fix about a month ago. There’s also a Calendar blog which I might actually try to follow in the future.



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tw

It’s obvious that Twitter is cool, but honestly, it takes too much work. I mean, sure, I can try to answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters, but why bother? That’s a lot of effort!

My new service will be named tw which is shorter than “Twitter” and has no uppercase letters, so you don’t even have to hit the shift key. And that “140 characters”? Forget it! We will be using two. Yes, two. Here are some examples.

  • :)
  • :(
  • ;)
  • :/
  • :p

I think tw will be able to convey all human emotions with just two characters.

(If you’re interested in funding this thing, I’ll need about 2 million. Leave a comment.)

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Not just another Peripheral

Recently I mentioned how the old Epson 777 was having some printing problems. Sadly, it’s only gotten worse.

The printer often doesn’t even print a page with ink on it, so it’s becoming somewhat useless. (It is fun to hear the loud grinding noise it makes, I really should record that!) My handwriting is terrible, and using a pen makes my hand hurt. (Who was it that said the “Pen is mightier!” anyway?) Do you know how hard it is for me to write things down because I can’t print them? And don’t get me started on maps! Sheesh, I have to hand draw maps while looking at the monitor. (If I don’t make it to tonight’s meeting, that’s why…)

I’m this close to getting a new printer. Actually, since I have about 6 unused ink cartridges, I really should just get another Epson 777.