Entries from December 2007

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Alex Iskold’s tips for startups

36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More – ReadWriteWeb This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective [...]

Friday, December 28th, 2007

I love these converse commercials

Monday, December 24th, 2007

My only shot in the war on Christmas this year

Happy Holidays Everybody!

Monday, December 17th, 2007

Adios Crocodile, I’ll miss you…

The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle unexpectedly shut down over the weekend. Word is filtering out quietly. Even the Croc website doesn’t have any info. It seems like they ran out of cash now that Peter Buck isn’t helping to pay the bills. This is truly a sad day for Seattle Music. The Croc was a [...]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

A very figaro xMas!

My good buddy Chris, who is a teacher over at the Art Institute of Seattle, just posted this animation! I love figaro!

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Christmas Ships

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Can we finally say that Seattle’s housing market is no longer defying the national trends?

Home prices slip to ’06 level – Seattle Times State foreclosure rate up from ’06 – Seattle Times Elizabeth Rhodes and the Real Estate Industry professionals that she quotes as part of her highly-biased reporting may still refuse to admit it, but the numbers have been showing conclusively over the last few months that the [...]

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Paying for others’ home loan mistakes

Paying for others’ home loan mistakes – Bill Virgin, Seattle Post-Intelligencer YOU WERE the careful, responsible sort of home buyer. You took out a plain-vanilla, fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage, shunning exotic loans with low teaser rates, coupled it with a substantial down payment, bought only as much house as you could afford with monthly payments that [...]

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Condo owners lose their view… duh.

Condo owners struggle for views as Seattle rises – Seattle Post-Intelligencer Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a condominium on the west side of downtown Seattles Cosmopolitan building in 2005 because it was one of the first new downtown high-rises and was convenient to amenities like the downtown bus tunnel and South Lake Union streetcar. [...]

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Yes, it does snow in Seattle

Every blog from Seattle has a picture from Saturday, so why not this one?