Good basic tutorial on sidebars in MT – Learning Movable Type: Adding a Sidebar

I’ve read Kevin Kelly – Cool Tools regularly and this latest article summarizing and grading review sites is good – I like the lighting related sites. Thanks to Martin for reminding me of this site.

Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog – he talks about a 32-way niagara system using only 56-60 watts. I am hungry for low power and low heat solutions, the current state of PC hardware is a little ridiculous.

Nice review of ExpertsExchange -- an interesting little community and microeconomy – I should participate.

Ethan Zuckerman on systematic bias in Wikipedia, another interesting community/microeconomy. I’d be more likely to participate in either of these if I could crosspost content easily to my blog – I’d like to be building my blog at the same time as I build these other assets.

Integrating blogs into customer service – going in a different direction now, interesting thinking about how a company can harvest blog content for product reviews and problem reports.

From the J-Curve, I think steve is saying that Moore’s Law is for wussies.

Handicapping the Nobel Prize for Economics – fascinating reading, especially for an amateur economist like myself.

Here is a good tool to check for gdiplus vulnerabilities – SANS - Internet Storm Center - Cooperative Cyber Threat Monitor And Alert System - Current Infosec News and Analysis – much better than the “be vaguely afraid but we won’t tell you why” microsoft tool.

Rich is teaching me about color matching, color matching gear, paper.

Some good notes on Diary of a Something L:

“Lydell Ross couldn’t find a hole on a miniature golf course”

“last year, whenever when ran out of the “I” or offset “I” with a FB as a lead blocker we averaged 5.5 yards per carry…This ridiculous formation with TE, wingback, TE accomplishes nothing…You don’t run a counter as the first play of the game. The point of a counter is that it COUNTERS something”

We’ve been waiting for this part since July. Finally arrived – after trying to order from many different sources, it was good old compusa that finally delivered.

Installed it last night along with Call of Duty expansion (CODUO) and the bullets were flying. Frame rates wonderful. Love the new bigger maps in CODUO.

Tried to install the Airport Express last night, I’ve seen lots of bloggers talking about – Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Airport Express.

I basically think it doesn’t work with WinXP. The install wizard died on two different laptops, in both cases complaining that I needed to let Windows manage my wireless hardware, that 3rd party tools were interfering with my hardware. Well in both cases the machines were configed to allow Windows to manage the hardware so I don’t know what the “wizard”’s problem was. One machine was a dell laptop, one was a jvc japan import. I was finally able to connect to the airport express just using the regular windows connection software, and at that point the airport express admin utility would run. But I could never get the wizard to run, and could never reliably muck with the airport config. I gave up. Another hunk of inert silicon and plastic in the corner of my office.

Redfin mentioned in Seattle Times/PI paper today – what a cool real estate search site.

Winds of Change.NET: Watch the Teachers’ Feet

”[American] public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools. In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools.”

Per PCMag, Zensys Z-Wave is Home Automation that Works. I’m going to order a kit and try it out – it can’t be any worse than x-10 – i generally don’t use x-10 at halloween time because the robustness and latency is just not up to snuff. But maybe this will be better.

A VC: Turning Commodity Into Scarcity – great insight – it is a core challenge for many businesses large or small – I remember back in the days when I worked in MSN, where the ad sales team worked hard to turn the huge inventory of unsold ad space into limited run special opportunities – “be one of our 5 Valentine’s Day partners”, “be one of our 3 premier blah-blah partners” – great work by that team to turn excess into scarcity. A great basic business lesson.

What a great story about the early days of Excite – Bnoopy: Persistence Pays, Part 2 – never say die. Joe’s blog is generally a great read so far.