For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return. 
- Leonardo da Vinci

“Come to the edge.”  “We might fall.” “Come to the edge.” “It’s too high!” “Come to the edge. ” And they came,  and he pushed,  And they flew.  –  Guillaume Apollinaire   

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius 

Fortune favors the bold. Virgil

Courage doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, “I will try again tomorrow”. 

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. – Confucius 

Cielos Azules
(blue skies)

Just laugh. Be safe. Love life. 

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” – Anonymous

“Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.” – Tom Fleming

The only easy day was yesterday – USN SEAL HQ motto

“The road to success is always under construction”

“The only difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones, is how we use them”

“When you see someone putting on his running shoes,
you can be pretty sure that an adventure is about to happen.”
                                                -  Winnie the Pooh

The reason someone wants to rain on your parade is because they don’t have one of their own.

I clicked a link from @GuyKawasaki’s twitter feed and the resulting page didn’t tell me why I wanted to create yet another account on yet another system, at all. What is SocialToo? What am I missing out on by not being part of that community? Why should I create an account, other than to read what Guy was linking to?

I’m a busy guy… give me a reason to sign up. You’re missing an opportunity to sell your service to me SocialToo.

A MagSafe Airline Power Adapter.

Looks like Apple’s building one now (finally) and they’re selling them as add-ons through their online store, but you can’t buy them individually yet.

Interesting though. Now, I’m wondering if all four of the stupid iGo power adapters I own will ever be useful again, or if I spent $600 on those things and will never use them again… figures. Apple and their damn proprietary parts.

I’m also curious: Is it “MagSafe” or “Magsafe”? You can see in the image above, Apple isn’t sure, either.

update: Looks like you can buy it online at the Apple Store. Found the link at TUAW.

I’ve actually got about 4 or 5 good posts about half written, but none ready to post.

Long story short, I’m running a company now, and it’s in an industry that’s new to me, even though I’ve been “in it” for the past 15 years… Yes, I can hear BNL singing “everything old is new again” when I typed that.

It’s an invigorating time for me, and I’m loving it, but the blog is suffering. Hopefully that’ll change in a week or two.

Hell’s doors are now open

Apple’s new Boot Camp software will allow Mac users to run Windows XP.
When: 4/5/2006
Company: Apple Computer Inc
Severity: 30
Points: 130
Discuss in the Happy Fun Slander Corner

Yes, I still read F’dCompany… you don’t? It reminds me of the good old days…

update: Don’t miss these pieces on Boot Camp too:

Boot Camp First Look: Half Life 2 Video + More from Cabel at Panic.

Obligaory NYTimes article

I figured it’s too good a deal to pass up, so I registered a few cool short .info domains, and will see if someone wants to buy them in the next 12 months… it’s only $2, right?

Anyways, if you’re looking for a good domain, and the .com, .net, etc. variations are taken… see if the .info version is open, and if it is, go buy it for $1.99 from IntuitiveISP… Mark’s a great guy and gets all of my domain name business and has for about 5 years now.

Oh, sale ends 4/30/2006, so register it this month if you’re want to save a little cash… Domain names make great presents

Subject: This time, it’s for real: Save NPR and PBS

Hi,

You know that email petition that keeps circulating about how Congress is slashing funding for NPR and PBS? Well, now it’s actually true. (Really. Check at the bottom if you don’t believe me.)

Sign the petition telling Congress to save NPR and PBS:

http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/

A House panel has voted to eliminate all public funding for NPR and PBS, starting with “Sesame Street,” “Reading Rainbow,” and other commercial-free children’s shows. If approved, this would be the most severe cut in the history of public broadcasting, threatening to pull the plug on Big Bird, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch.

The cuts would slash 25% of the federal funding this year—$100 million—and end funding altogether within two years. The loss could kill beloved children’s shows like “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” “Arthur,” and “Postcards from Buster.” Rural stations and those serving low-income communities might not survive. Other stations would have to increase corporate sponsorships.

Already, 300,000 people have signed the petition. Can you help us reach 400,000 signatures today?

http://www.moveon.org/publicbroadcasting/

Thanks!

P.S. Read the Washington Post report on the threat to NPR and PBS at:

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=745

In general, Plaxo users don’t enter complete contact information into their contact records stored inside of Plaxo. This sucks because after a person adds me to their Plaxo database, Plaxo then sends me an email asking me to confirm the details that were entered.

When I see that they didn’t input my phone number, my job title, company, etc… I realize how truly lazy the person I’m dealing with is.

So, then I’m guilt-ridden about not wanting to update my contact record for this lazy fuck that didn’t enter all of my contact information in the first place…

I’ll eventually update their Plaxo record, but forevermore, I’ll remember how lazy this person was/is.

I realize that this person is generally busy, and that they don’t have time to enter all of that information by hand, but damn… All of my contact information is generally in every email I send out. Is it that hard to copy/paste?

My advice to Plaxo users? Take the time to enter all of my contact information before you have Plaxo ask me if it’s up to date. Otherwise, I’ll think you’re terribly vain and lazy.

He set up HartzVictims.org because his kitty, Riley, was hurt by Hartz’s flea and tick products back in the summer of 2001. Riley was featured on the local cable news channel, and the wrote numerous letters to Hartz, to no avail.

So, in 2002, he started up the site, to help spread the word about Hartz’s harmful products. Since then, he’s gathered about 700 stories about Hartz’s products causing harm to animals.

If you’re a cat lover, please tell everyone you know to be careful with Hartz feal and tick products. Their products have been lethal to some animals.

My friend and I hate seeing photos of kitties like poor TJ here. If you don’t want your friends’ kitties to look like poor TJ, please help publicize HartzVicitms.org, so that more kitties don’t get hurt.

Since I learned of Riley getting sick, I’ve only used flea and tick medicine that my vet prescribes, and advise you to do the same.

This is the only industry in the world that can see thousands of its retailers close, reduce the number of products it sells via cutbacks in artist rosters and albums released, cut back marketing and promotional dollars and then blame a reduction in sales on someone or something other than themselves.

Sometimes outsiders can more clearly see the problem and solution than insiders.

• ascii movies [via Scoble]
• before the web — a collection of personal historical perspectives and accounts of what went on before the dot com bubble…
• The Official Bubb Rubb SoundBoard, Woo Woo! — a great way to waste time at the office.
• Calls to action (from Grok dot com)
• README – a story about women in business (great read)
• Web Digest for Marketers
• Up2Speed.com (disclaimer: I’m one of the founders, but recently sold out… I point it out because one of the cool things they now offer are all of the old Adventive email lists, which are fantastic lists to be on — and, if any of you out there want to help, we could use your linky-love to the new site, instead of to the old MarketingFix.com url)
• PHPList [via Kalsey's SimpleLinks]

If you’re celebrating the 4th with me this weekend… enjoy. If you’re not celebrating with us Americans enjoy your weekend anyways

[via dasme]

Can you believe she wore that? I mean, she looks great, but the dress?

[Note, I don't normally comment on photos I put up here, but I couldn't resist this time]

Can’t wait till next Monday night — The Practice changed nights.

[photo courtesy of Robyn]

John Robb: “Everyone who rides a Segway, wants to own a Segway.”

There has been a lot of Segway stuff showing up in the blogging community (and elsewhere) lately. The consensus seems to be that it’s a truly wonderful thingy indeed.

I wrote about my Segway experience back in October. I won’t deny that the technology is very cool, but I can’t say the experience left me wanting one.

Which is strange. Because if it’s shiny, and it’s new, I usually want it bad. So, why not the Segway?

Well, my earlier blog entry pretty much says it all. For distances less than a couple of miles, I’d rather walk (I need the exercise!). For longer distances, I have a car (or a bike, if I ever get around to re-learning how to ride. They say you never forget how. Don’t believe the lies.) This pretty much takes care of my transportation needs. I don’t really even have environmental guilt, which is popular here in Oregon. By my estimates, I drive substantially less than 5,000 miles a year.

There are something like 5 or 6 folks in our office building who all decided to jump in and buy Segways at the same time, and I see them riding down the street or the hallway on a fairly frequent basis. To put in perspective what I’m about to say, please understand that I am a geek. I was picked on all through school, picked last for every horrible P.E. game, etc, etc, but when I see these guys on their Segways, I want to push them off and steal their lunch money.

I’m not even kidding — the simple addition of a Segway turns what would otherwise be a single dork into an entire chess team on wheels. And if it can stir up this type of sentiment in a fellow geek, imagine what the baseball cap guys will want to do to you. I’m having horrible mental images of two high school quarterbacks throwing an 80 pound Segway back and forth over some guy’s head, chanting “You want your Segway? Come and get it! Come and get it!”

What the Segway community needs to do immediately, if it is to survive, is to cop a more “macho” image. Borrow a page from the Harley Davidson folks, and throw on a leather jacket. Liberally apply flame decals to your Segway. Find a way to make the Stirling engine extremely loud.

I am telling you all this as a friend. Act now, before the other side develops some sort of self-balancing wedgie machine.

On the other hand, maybe I’m just jealous.

BTW, this is my first post using the newest NewNewsWire Pro Beta from Brent Simmons (you rock Brent).