This morning, I noticed on Will Herman’s blog that on Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 (at least in the US). I plan to be awake to see it. After three people sent me the same fact today (thanks!) I decided my obsession with numbers is starting to infect the universe (or maybe it’s the other way around.)

Adam Rubenstein – who writes a blog called Colorado Life Science Deal Flow – has started a guest blogger series to encourage some of his friends and collegues to dip their toes into the blogpond. His first guest is Harry Ross – a partner at Aweida Venture Partners which is just up the road from my office. Harry – c’mon in – the water is usually pretty warm (although it’s occassionally a little too hot.)

As I settle in for an hour wait before my plane at the San Jose Airport (the United Terminal really needs a paint job and a good vacuuming), I’ve been pondering the complete lack of electrical outlets. I can open up my laptop and immediately connect to the Internet (via my Verizon EVDO card – bypassing the nonsense of dealing with airport paid-WiFi). However, I’ve got to scrounge around find an electrical outlet.

NewsGator and VNU announced today localized versions of NewsGator Online and NewsGator Inbox for Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, and Spain. These countries join the previously localized versions for the UK and France. Ah – the joy of a platform.

As a follow up to my MBA post from yesterday, I noticed an article in BusinessWeek titled “Can a Personal MBA Match the Real McCoy?” Interesting and provocative content, along with a few interesting links for those of you thinking about an MBA.

I got a fun question in my inbox recently from a long time reader of this blog. This answer is aimed at those of you who have ever thought about going to business school. I’m an entrepreneur, software developer, and occasional angel investor, who is thinking about going to business school. I’m looking for something new to do, either in VC or in finance more generally, and want to use business school as a way to change career direction. Since I live in the Bay area, I talked to the Stanford GSB admissions office, which recommended that I apply for their Sloan Fellows program. I did so and was recently accepted, but upon further investigation I’m a little worried because, as you may know, the Sloan program is a one-year program which results in a MS in Management rather than an MBA. My question to you is if you think that the fact you have an MS rather than an MBA has ever closed any doors to you? If so, which ones?

Yesterday I said I was going to make April “Microsoft Month” for my computers. After installing IE7b2, a bunch of Live.com stuff, migrating my bookmarks from Firefox to IE7, and then trying to use IE7 as my primary browser, I’ve given up after 24 hours. It occurred to me that this wasn’t going to work out the third time I had to restart my computer because something goofy was going on. 

In my ultimate quest for periodic pain, I’ve decided to take a page from Chris Pirillo’s Googlefasting playbook and segment my use over the next three months. Rather than using a mix of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft I’m going to spend April with Microsoft only, May with Yahoo, and June with Google. I’m starting the process today. I figure the first few days will be a transition from what I’m currently using to only Microsoft stuff. I haven’t yet decided how I’m going to approach the edge cases (e.g. does that mean I dump iTunes, what about all the tagging I do with del.icio.us, and I suppose I’ll have to see if I can get into the Microsoft AdCenter beta to replace my Google and Yahoo ads on my blog) – I’ll figure this out as I go.

It’s the last day of the quarter and eerily quiet in my office. I’ve received very feel emails (and no phone calls) from CEOs of the companies I work with. Since I talked with a number of them yesterday, I know this means that they are busting their butts to drag the last few deals of the quarter across the goal line before this Friday ends. Good.