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Dwarf Star Alliance
I fly United Airlines with a frequency sufficient to earn me 1K status. That stands for more than 100,000 miles per year. I’ve had that status for at least the last three years, and was an Premier Exeutive (next status down) for years before that. United belongs to the Star Alliance, which includes a bunch… Continue reading
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But where?
@Jesusitafire, of the Los Padres National Forest, is tweeting. So far following ø, followed by 12. Hey, it’s a start. Continue reading
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Much is technically wrong
Twitter says “Something is technically wrong”. The hotel wi-fi is up and down. Mostly down. My Sprint data card gets squat from this hotel. AT&T is borderline useless at #sxsw, probably because 90% of the attendees have iPhones. My wife is headed off to Europe in the morning, and I’m trying to get her going… Continue reading
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Naturally good
Had a great breakfast with Rex at the Bouldin Creek Coffee House and Café in Austin this morning. It’s about 1.5 miles from downtown on South 1st. Found it on Yelp. Great little place. I had two vegetarian egg variant tacos. One was a veggie chorizo thing (I forget the details), and it was outstanding.… Continue reading
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Going old turkey
We withdrew from TV this morning. I called Verizon and cancelled our FiOS TV service. Kept the Internet, of course: $64.99 for 20Mb symmetrical service. No complaints there. But what I want from Verizon is á la carte — or something close — and they don’t offer that. If it’s HD you want, it’s kind… Continue reading
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A step toward the user-driven future
I just put up Get ready for “fourth party” services, over at Linux Journal. It comes from thinking about new kinds of businesses that serve users, or customers, first. Traditionally, “third party” companies are accessories to sellers. So I’m thinking we should call accessories to buyers “fourth party” companies. See what you think. Continue reading
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Quote du jour
blogs exist because they fill a void, blogs that refuse to do so become void. Tony Pierce. Continue reading
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Just asking
Has President Obama made a single appointment that says “change”? Here’s his latest. Continue reading
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Renaissance Twitter Reading
Reading David Armano from Marcus Brown. Wicked, but funny. Wish I could embed videos here, but I haven’t mastered that yet. Continue reading
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Getting to the bottom of what happened at the top
Investigating the Financial Crisis and My Passion for Borsalino Hats is an outstanding post by Stephen Lewis — one that characteristically combines several things I didn’t know, starting with a helpful suggestion for incoming administration: a sweeping inquest into the twin housing and stock market crashes to create both the intellectual context and the political… Continue reading
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Let it Snow
We were flying along in the bus when wham: it started snowing. Heavily. Now we’re creeping along through Westchester, and the road is clearly getting a little dangerous. There’s an inch or so on the ground now, and it’ll probably get a lot deeper before it starts raining later and turns it and turns it… Continue reading
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Tweet on
I’m at the WBUR open house “tweetup”, where I just learned about Tweetworks from Mike Langford. Thus the lego-like greater Twitter add-on zone grows. Continue reading
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Grinding at the hub
We left SFO at 11am yesterday, and got into BOS at 3am. The delay in the middle was at ORD: O’Hare. We arrived at 6pm to find that our 7pm flight had been delayed to 9:10. After going to dinner at the Macaroni Grill (chosen after tweeting a request that was answered nicely by Todd… Continue reading
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Bailing on the bailout
Back in September or so I blogged in favor of the $700 billion stimulus package. In those days, now so long ago, I thought, against my otherwise better judgement, that we needed to do something. Now I don’t. Now I think we need to let the train wreck finish happening before we “stimulate” anything. If… Continue reading
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Quote du jour
“…the Because Effect feeds on openness. And it’s more than an API.” — Dave Wallace Continue reading
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Quote du jour
David Sedaris on undecided voters: To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of… Continue reading
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d’bait
Watching the “debate” between McCain and Obama. Hard not to. After eight years of a truly bad presidency, it matters more than usual who our next prez will be. But these guys aren’t saying much. Worse, I don’t believe either of them are going to do what they say they’re going to do. Anyway, I’m… Continue reading