I was in Starbucks today, and ordered my favorite cold drink: a medium skim decaf iced mocha (light on the ice). Starbucks aficionados will know that there is no such thing as medium (it is Grande), and I probably have it in the wrong order, but I feel this is the situation in which the customer always wrong. Whimsy MORE >>

I will be at OSCON in Portland starting tonight through Wednesday. Matt Asay is leading a great day tomorrow , and I look forward to a good discussion regarding business models, licensing strategies, and best practices for building open source companies. Some of Matt's thoughts on secrets of successful open source companies can be found here. MORE >>

You know when you're really down in the dumps and you just don't know what to do? Well, that's how I feel after working three hard weeks and failing to come to an agreement with a company that we were trying to advertise with MORE >>

today's blogher workshop on blog community architectures, led by nancy white of full circle associates, elicited a set of common community templates: one blog, one blogger. someone fills a niche, and people congregate around her/him MORE >>

Dorit (my wife) is very sympathetic. Yesterday she assured me that when she swims she sometimes feels like she's flying through the water, and at other times that she is about to sink from the moment she gets in the pool. However, I felt drained and although my legs didn't hurt, I could feel the effort in the muscles until this morning. Cycling MORE >>