For the last 20 years the solution to at least 50% of my computer problems is “reboot.” Interestingly this is no longer a PC problem. While working on getting Amy’s Mac set up this weekend, I rebooted TWICE. I rebooted (turn off – wait 15 seconds – turn back on) my car this morning when the radio didn’t come on. I had to reboot my iPod this morning because it was frozen. My Garmin watch needed rebooting on Friday because – hell – I don’t know. The solution to the problem with my new Sony PS/3 – unplug it and plug it back in. Troubleshooting tip #1 on my new Dish HD receiver – turn it off and turn it back on. Don’t even get me started about my Vista boxes.

My friend Kimbal Musk (owner of The Kitchen and CEO of Me.dium) is in GwangJu, South Korea with his wife Jen installing her light harp. As usual, Kimbal is hysterical. A typical paragraph: “And NO ONE speaks english. It’s like we’re aliens. They can’t even read the tourist map. We spent about 45 minutes in an insane, high speed taxi ride trying to explain where we wanted to go by pointing at the map the hotel gave us. I think the map we got was a joke played on the only western tourists to hit GwangJu this year. The cab driver thought we were retarded. We thought he was out to kill us.”

Praise to my friends at Lijit for pledging 1% of their equity to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado. Lijit is the seventh company that has formally announced their participation in the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado this year. There are seven more that have joined but not yet announced – look for these announcements over the next few weeks. If you are part of the leadership team of a startup in Colorado and are interested in finding out more about the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado, drop me an email.

I just invested 90 minutes in watching The last public lecture of Randy Pausch. Randy is a CMU professor who has done pioneering work in Human Computer Interaction, was a co-creator of Alice, co-founded CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center and – after watching his last lecture – is one of those amazingly inspiring and centered humans who understands what is important in life. Other than knowing about Alice and occasionally stumbling across Randy’s work and research as I study HCI, I haven’t given Randy much thought. A friend send me a link to the lecture and said that it was a “must watch” lecture. As I started to watch it, I learned the backstory (from Randy – who is 47) that he had terminal pancreatic cancer and had about three to six months left of good health. That context made the lecture even more remarkable.

My long time friend and first business partner Dave Jilk sent me an email with the quote of the week in it – “The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data.” Perfect – brilliant. After responding that it would find the light of day in a future blog post, he respondedf that he tracked the attribution down to a guy named Frank Kotsonis (a pharmacologist), apparently in The Clinical Evaluation of a Food Additive: Assessment of Aspartame of which Kotsonis was an editor.

My friends Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson both showed up on WallStrip interviews this week. Lindsey interviewed Paul and got to ask about why people punch him in the face and Fred talked with Howard about the “Fuck You Phone.” While Bijan didn’t make WallStrip this week, he did notice that 50 students at Boulder High walked out during the pledge of allegiance this week. It was that whole “one nation, under God” thing that doesn’t really work that well in a public school, especially in the people’s republic of Boulder. Praise to the kids for being independent and critical thinkers.

Tom Evslin has an outstanding post up today titled Causes of Global Warming – Are We Fooled By Hubris? Amy and I just finished watching Rome Season 2 and our conclusion is “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Anyone feel like buying some indulgences?

Brilliant moves by Widgetbox and Dapper (I’m not an investor in either company.) Both of them have released “development tools for building Facebook apps.” Widgetbox’s App Accelerator helps you turn Widgetbox widgets into Facebook apps. Dapper’s AppMaker helps you turn “Dapps” (Dapper Apps) into Facebook apps. Look for a lot more tools like this, but these first movers are both smart and neat.

As usual, Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation of the Excel 100000 bug. (Thanks Rick)