My wife had the great idea on our trip to Italy to take this same picture in lots of different spots in the country. This is our daughter in Montalcino. We met a great German family and got to be friends with them over the week we were in the same place. They told us […]
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Guest Post From Tyler Barstow – Apprenticeship update
Scott wanted me to write a guest post on his blog as the next update on the apprenticeship that he and I cooked up in our secret laboratory. This is that post. Things are going well. I probably should be more descriptive. When I moved down here, I wasn’t sure what was actually going to […]
Commencement
I spent yesterday at my niece’s graduation here in Albany NY. It was my sister’s youngest daughter graduating, and the third graduation here in four years. I have been to what seems like a lot of high school and college graduations the last few years. There has been a steady stream of family graduations as […]
Me, Too
I spent Monday night of this week at a small gathering of technologists, investors, and marketers in San Jose, CA. There were folks in the room from LinkedIn, Google, Facebook and other organizations, all there to discuss how to better collaborate around Christian philanthropy. It was a lively discussion, lasting about four hours, and there […]
Getting Hit By A Bus
Inevitably, if you work long enough, you will hear this phrase uttered in the context of some possible crisis. “We need to make sure we are covered in case Joe gets hit by a bus!” Everyone in the room nods their heads, furrows their brow, and thinks earnestly about the possibility of Joe coming to […]
Oh, How I Love Slingbox
A few years ago, I was at the VON conference in Northern California. I don’t remember the exact circumstances now, but somehow I walked away with a Slingbox in some sort of give away. In the course of my move about two years ago, it found its way into a box and did not find […]
Minimalist Gmail – Get rid of the clutter
I have recently downloaded and installed the Firefox extension from Matt Constantine, Minimalist Gmail. If you don’t like the clutter of the Gmail interface ( with the chat window, the Google logo at the top, all sorts of buttons you never use ), I highly recommend this plugin. I have been using it for about […]
Google Voice – The Joy Continues ( Mostly )
I have really been getting a lot of use out of Google Voice since I last posted about moving your mobile voice mail to Google Voice. I have started moving all of my voice traffic onto this number, and most importantly, have found a hot new desktop application that makes it so simple to dial […]
Jack of more than one trade?
I was reading this post this morning by Seth Godin wherein he talks about wearing more than one hat. I have been thinking a lot about this recently for myself personally, particularly around the idea of an entrepreneur being only an entrepreneur. Can you be both an employee and an entrepreneur? Or does it have […]
Porting your mobile voicemail to Google Voice
Google released a new feature for Google Voice wherein you can now forward your mobile phone voicemail to Google Voice. Google Voice is a service that allows you to have a phone number “in the cloud” ( to use an over-hyped buzzword ) that you can then control all of your inbound and outbound call […]