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Archive for May, 2007

The family business  

Me: So, bud. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Son: What are you, Dad?
Me: Haha! Me? I’m an entrepreneur.
Son: I want to be an entre canoer.
Me: Do you know what that means?
Son: No.
Me: It means I think of ideas and start my own businesses.
Son: But I want to work with you.
Me: In [...]

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Zooomr update: down for the count?  

Zooomr is still not live and the situation doesn’t look good. Their database server crashed just 15 minutes after Mark III launched. In their latest blog post, Kristopher makes a desperate plea for hardware and help. Is this the end of Zooomr? I hope not. But whether it ever comes back online or not, recent [...]

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Review: Eragon  

Star Wars with dragons. It’s A New Hope complete with a blonde farm boy who starts a journey to become a man following the murder of his uncle, a dark and powerful pursuer who does the bidding of an evil emperor, magic, a hermit who turns out to be more than he seems and makes [...]

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Whither Zooomr?  

I wish Zooomr the best of luck launching Mark III. At the same time, as a developer interested in their open API, I can’t help but wonder about the cause of the complete failure of Mark III to launch anywhere near on time. It’s now six days late (not counting the aborted attempt in April) [...]

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On the brink of five  

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