Entries from June 2007

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Does virtualization herald the end of the platform war?

I was reading Marc Andreesen’s new blog and I came across this quote: Virtualization — in the form of software like Parallels and VMWare Fusion — lets you deal with an individual operating system as if it were an application. from blog.pmarca.com: At long last, switching back to Mac and I realized that since Apple [...]

Monday, June 4th, 2007

posting legislation BEFORE passing it

This isn’t a new idea, but I started thinking about it after I heard a commentator on some political show mention that people wouldn’t know what was in some legislation until after it got passed. What about the idea that congress should post the text of a bill BEFORE it comes up to a vote. [...]

Monday, June 4th, 2007

The Seattle micro-startup community is organizing

I was around and in fact active in the first web bubble in Seattle. It was a heady time, cocktail parties and pitches. Companies grabbing up every inch of pioneer square loft space and such. Then it all went away and I retreated back into the corporate world so that I could pay the bills. [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Bill and Steve together again on the D stage

Friday, June 1st, 2007

hey! Guess what I’m working on in my spare time?