Wildseed. My favorite startup – latest news about them – Wildseed Ltd. News. Ooh update – check out the Forbes article.

Educational Stuff. Heading out on some college tours next week. University of Washington Honors Program is first on our list, heading there next Wednesday. Then to Occidental Thursday, Claremont and Pepperdine Friday, Caltech and UCLA Saturday, with maybe a stop at USC sometime.

On the home front, recently bought and installed Mathematica after wanting to for years. Kind of necessary as I help the kids with high school math homework – it is getting tougher and tougher for me to keep up. Mathematica is great, going to take me a year to really dig into it.

Halloween Lighting Idea. This will let me run my DMX signals over ethernet…cool! ENTTEC, We bring you DMX. This also will run DMX over ethernet. there are a lot of these. webprc01. Yet another – Audio Visual Lighting - ELC DMX Products.

Eisner: DaveNet : Eisner made over $700 million in 5 years

I got interested in who Michael Eisner is. It didn’t take much time to find out, for example, via Forbes, that he made over $700 million in five years. At the same time he argues the financial interest of creative people. So which creative people will speak for Eisner’s position? They are conspicuously silent. How much money flowed to them while he was making all that money?

W.bloggar. I’m trying out w.bloggar as my posting interface. Kind of cool. Posts OK. Publishing doesn’t seem to work tho.

Is that a web server in your pocket? From my buddy Adrian Smith – “Ahh, the pieces are coming together for my web-browsable doohickies - ? just saved me weeks of dev time ! http://www.siteplayer.com/ Pretty neat little webserver on a 1? sq board for $30. Doesn?t run ASP scripts but you can poke variables into the web page it creates. Now need to find an 802.11 version !”

I want to bundle one of these with a battery and an 802.11 card so that I can carry my blog on my person as I walk around. Why? I don’t know, it just seems cool.

In the shorter term I guess I can just make my Pocket PC a web server…the toshiba e570 comes recommended as the best 802.11 pocketpc…

Fictional Characters. From NPR, the 100 best of the last century. I’m embarrassed about how few of these titles I have read. Equally impressive is paul maritz’s book collection -- i am embarrassed about my own massmarket reading habits.

Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Protection Act. Yuck. Here’s hoping that rationality rules and this bill dies a quick death.

Population Stats. I’m on the board of Forest Ridge and I am trying to get a good handle on demographics and population forecasts for the next 10-20 years. Here is what I have found so far – the Economic Development Council of Seattle and King County; and it’s source data from the Washington State Office of Financial Management. Very interesting – it suggests that the middle school population in the area is declining in size in the next 5-10 years.

Some Useful Blog Links. I want to check these out later. Also these from Olivier Travers. And Tomalak.

This Looks Like Fun Earthriver river trips. Maybe in a few years…

CD earset I ought to get one of these, I use my earpiece a lot.

Bugtraq I know I am late to the game on this one but a great site for security issues.

Audio Gear I am thinking about getting a panasonic sy-pa100 personal pa system. Replaces about 3 pieces of gear I currently use to practice guitar with – practice amp, drum machine, cd player. it is a little dorky looking but i think it could be cool. oh yeah it replaces a 4th piece of gear, my mixer.

Tom Tomorrow Yet again this comic cracks me up.