I just got a note and pictures two friends – one in Keystone and one in Aspen. Both said the most recent storms were incredible and the snow in the mountains in fantastic. The following is from Keystone. The note from my friend is “We got nailed with snow this past weekend. One of the top five storms I’ve seen after 15 years of living in Summit County. We are nearly 100% open and the skiing is great. Check out these photos from my back yard. We got about 2 feet in Silverthorne.”

I hate buzzwords. They make me nauseous. I just got an email to the link of The Office 2008 Web 2.0 Buzzword Forecast which includes such beauties as search moptimization, wombagging, friendiligence, converstations, social mediation, we-bargaining, greenlashing, shamsparency, credlining, facelifting, blog groveling, world war 2.0, microtubing, and lipsmacking. I’m going to go lipsmack about buzzwords after I go vomit in my carbon neutral bathroom. (Thanks Greg.)

If you are a VC firm looking for a summer intern, or an MBA looking for a VC summer internship, Dan Primack and PEHub have put launched their 5th Annual Internship Rodeo. We regularly get inbound emails asking how to land a job in venture capital. If you have ever sent me a note like that or are looking for a job, this is one of the best ways to get in the mix.

When 369 of something suddenly appears, I get excited about the opportunities to do something with it. When I noticed the 370th new ad network, I realized there were probably a few opportunities to do some interesting things across them. AdReady – a company I made an investment in a year ago – is seriously kicking ass (if you do any display advertising on Google, Yahoo/RightMedia, or AOL go take a look at them) and their early success reinforced this idea to me.

As snowstorm #2 in Boulder the last week starts to diminish, I thought I’d offer up a picture of what it looks like in Homer, Alaska right now (at 10:30am Homer time.) That dark stuff on the bottom 10% of the picture is land. That lighter dark stuff at in the middle of the picture is the ocean. The top half of the picture is probably dark, fog, and clouds. That little dark stretch of land going to the left across the bottom of the picture is the Homer Spit.

One of the hallmarks of a great entrepreneur is knowing what you suck at. I suck at plenty of things – Paul Berberian’s blog The Name Game reminded me of one of them – naming things. I was an investor in Paul’s last company – Raindance Communications – which went through five names to get there (Intellistat Media Research, Vstream, Evoke, Evoke Software, and finally Raindance Communications.) At some point I suggested we change the name to Ekove (read Paul’s story to learn why) but I was over-ruled – or rather, ignored. Paul ends his story with the line “My Advice – don’t do what I did” which should always be an enticement to read it.

Just in time for the annual presentation of The Nutcracker, I can now get my very own Hillary Nutcracker without having to go to the ballet (thanks Dave.)

Tristan Louis nails it in his post Personal Relationship Manager*.* I think the only thing he missed are blog comments. Too bad PRM stands for the now mostly defunct “Partner Relationship Management” category.

My IT guy Ross has been having his fair share of them lately. Ross has been blogging about silly Microsoft tricks, including Microsoft you’re about to lose me and Why Microsoft, why? Ross isn’t limiting himself to bitching about things – he’s also offering useful suggestions such as Disabling Vista auto update. Plus he’s writing about some obscure stuff such as Installing Vista on a MacBook Pro using Imagex.exe (only obscure if you don’t want to do it!)