Azure Capital. Dinner with Mike Kwatinetz and others of Azure Capital tonight – I knew of Mike while at Microsoft but this will be first in-person meeting. Really like some of their investments – hope we can work together.

Treadmills. Looking for a good one for home use. Need to get that daily exercise going!

Some models that get good press – Precor M9.55, the True Fitness lineup, the Landice Roadrunner with built in 6CD player, the Smooth lineup, the rest of the Landice lineup.

Good review sites include Advanced Fitness Treadmill Reviews, TreadmillDoctor, and the About.com Treadmill site.

Home-based Web Services. What Danny O’Brien said – I have a ton of computing power and storage at home…it is on the net all the time…why am I going to pay people for simple services like file storage and mail? The problem with my home network is reliability but I have 4 machines at home on the net, can’t software bind them together and make them reliable enough for me?

Fireball. Brad Chase is looking at the Escient Fireball as a potential media hub. certainly claims to do it all. expensive – i wonder if it is worth it. It all depends on the integration – I can do all this much more cheaply with a PC but I have to use 25 different pieces of software. If the fireball really makes it easy to do all the things it claims, the integration would be worth something.

Dynacenter. New company for which I serve on the Board of directors. Great office location in Leschi…

Dogs. Why they kill their owners – courtesy of my friend Cory. Apologize for the size.

Sight Gags. The Gag Works looks like the best source…I need some of the “arrows thru head” for my Custer costume. Or maybe a nice Monk Robe or another if I go as the hunchback again.

Severed Fingers. Great a sale on severed fingers…. A little too gory for my halloween purposes but isn’t the internet great!

RSS on PocketPC. Steve Makofsky turned me onto his PocketFeed RSS aggregator for the PocketPC. Wow this is great! The web has been nearly useless on my toshiba wifi pocketpc but this makes a huge difference. I haven’t been a huge fan of RSS but it provides me a ton of utility on my small screen device. I use Radio to create my list of sources and then import the OPML from Radio into the Pocketfeed app. Way cool!

Microcontrollers 101. Also from the MOM group, a set of documents courtesy of parallax that intro the entire concept of microcontrollers – Stamps in Class Curriculum. (A real headache inducing background bitmap on this site)

Torvalds on Patents. Couldn’t agree more – LWN: Re: large page patch. I refuse to look at patent material when startups try to present their patent portfolio to us. In fact, any startup that leads their presentation to us with “we have this bank of patents” I view with great suspicion – I suspect they are simply seeding the world with info about their patent so that they can claim knowing infringement later.

Servo Control Software. Lots of good discussion on the MOM site about servo control software. Robo-Ware Robotics Servo Control Software is recommended, supports downloads to basic stamps. Visual Servo Automation - Overview - The Solution for Mini-SSC Servo Control Software gets a lot of recommendations too but no download to basic stamps, you need to keep the PC in the picture.

OSU beats Texas Tech. A good first outing – Recap - Texas Tech at Ohio State - 08/24/2002. Great running game – linework, Maurice Clarett, way to go! A passing game that wasn’t a drawback tho there could be a lot of improvement. Signs of defensive strength tho they let too many points get on the board. On to Kent State!

Scroll Rage. First seen on Gary Turner’s Weblog. I forwarded on to Jon Devaan…

Van De Graaf. To go along with the tesla coils mentioned earlier – at edmunds scientific