Good Mental Floss – The Camel Club

David Baldacci is in my regular “mental floss” book rotation – whenever one of his books comes out it immediately ends up in the “read when you need a break

November 27, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

It Ought To Be Easier

Lyle Lovett’s “It Ought To Be Easier” was the 195th song on Amy’s iPod Shuffle playlist that I manually recreated for her this morning. Someone at Apple on the iPod

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

The Web Is Not A Normalized Relational Database

I had lunch with Stan James on Friday at Pasquini’s Pizzeria. Stan is the creator of Outfoxed and was introduced to me by Seth Goldstein who is one of the

November 27, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld

Sarbanes-Oxley, the Software Developer, and 404

Nope – I’m not referring to an HTTP 404 error. I’m talking about Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Section 404. If you are a software developer and don’t know what SOX is, it&rs

November 26, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

User Agents

I woke up this morning thinking about User Agents (ok – I was also thinking about Naomi Watts and Sean Penn who were amazing in 21 Grams.) A commenter on

November 26, 2005 · 4 min · Brad Feld

The Worst Job Ever

I woke up to a video of The Worst Job Ever in my inbox. On this Thanksgiving weekend, be thankful you don’t have this job.

November 26, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

The Spreadsheet Ate My Homework

Have you ever made an error as a result of a formula problem in a spreadsheet. Nope – I haven’t either <g>. A long time friend and uber-accounting-dude Frank Lincks

November 25, 2005 · 1 min · Brad Feld

del.icio.us Tags – The First Derivative of What I'm Thinking About

I was in an Oxlo board meeting recently and Todd Vernon (Raindance CTO who is on the Oxlo board) said “I’ve subscribed to your del.icio.us tag feed – I like it

November 25, 2005 · 2 min · Brad Feld

Personalized Feeds

As an investor in a number of companies that do stuff with RSS (NewsGator, FeedBurner, Technorati, and Judy’s Book) and fan and active user of others (e.g. del.icio.us, FeedBlitz, SixApart)

November 25, 2005 · 5 min · Brad Feld

Business Plan: Introduction: The Rise of Databases

In my last post in the Business Plan series, you discovered that my first company was a “software company.” What kind? Even in 1987, the software industry covered a wide v

November 24, 2005 · 3 min · Brad Feld