1. Exhibit 1: The lastest Morning Coffee Notes talking frankly, casually, honestly about business and the internet. There’s a pile of very valuable lessons in this conversation.
2. Exhibit 2: TechCrunch’s heavily produced, seemingly scripted, wardrobed, cast of 14 CEOs talking buzzwords.

Update 12 August 2006: The Om and Niall Podsessions have left me unsatisfied lately. Too much of the later, not enough of the former.

“Aside from personal, near-term gain, why sell out at all? Wait until the 1.0 era giants crumble, and buy their worthwhile assets” – Stowe Boyd

Check out Kyle’s Podcasts that you should listen to list.

I’m flattered to have the First Crack podcast mentioned in the same list as Skepticality and Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com.

Rock on.

My 6+ year-old DSL modem is not longer serving faithfully. Yesterday, round dinner time, it stopped. Everything. The kind folks at Speakeasy.net are sending over a replacement, but until then…..I’m bouncing around local coffee shops for access.

Ok – DSL is back, looks like it was something wrong with the line itself…but it’s hard to test that without a different modem. 🙂

Yesterday, I did a good amount of thinking about the registration model of the T-minus aggregator project. At this point, I’m confident that a good portion of the service will be free and without registration.

This was confirmed when I went to check out the Technorati redesign this morning and neither the site nor my browser remembered my name/pass combo. Looking in Keychain Access – I had 3 records for the site. Huh, which one works?

There are a few bits in the T-minus project where some having some identification or authentication makes more sense than not – but as a whole, requiring a name/password combo doesn’t make any sense.

Update: Steven from Panic agrees registration isn’t always a necessity to communicate value.

Just last week, I was taking with someone about Parallels Desktop. Cavalierly, I stated how I grabbed a trial key – but then realized I had no need to use for Windows.

Then just days later, I needed to see what a process looked like on Windows. Funny, Murphy, real funny.

Option 1. The Mac mini home server does have a Windows partition on it, but no monitor. So I’d have to disconnect it form the rats nest of external hard drives and other peripherals, plug it into the living room TV and reboot.

Option 2. Install VirtualPC on the eMac with the dead keyboard (no ability to open the DVD drive). Share the install disc across the network and run the install via VNC.

This post means WorkingPathways.com has moved to a new server. Let me know if you experience an hiccups. Thanks.

Thanks to Tyler Cowen for passing along word of Atlas Shrugged the Movie.

Fun Facts from the previous link:

• First draft of Part 1’s (of 3 ??!!) script completed and rated 8/10 in ‘philosophical fidelity to the novel’.
• Angelina Jolie is interested in playing, “the greatest female character in all of literature”, Dagny Taggert.
• “…everybody has been waiting breathlessly for an Atlas Shrugged movie since 1973…”

All this brings up a good question – did I even finish the book? Hmmm. I’m pretty sure I read the last chapter.

In the interests of incremental deadlines, I’ve added this project to the list of demos at the upcoming MinneDemo.

Back from a week’s vacation, tanned, rested, and ready. A lot has happened, and this morning I put a few more wheels in motion. Lots of smaller things that have been sitting on the To Do list for way too long.

The road construction outside the home office is mostly over – enough so I’m contemplating moving the office out of doors.

As part of today’s productivity purge, I’ve kicked off a new project. One I’ve been tossing around for far too long – and like the things above, on the To Do List for far too long.

That said, this project has an arbitrary 82-day deadline. Tick. Tock.

Here’s what I’m happy to share about the project at this point: it’s a Ruby-on-Rails app and one of the major goals is to test the recurring themes of the Work Better blog.

More will be revealed as the deadline draws near.

Congrats to Sam & Jen on the arrival of Joe Urban Jr..