You know what I like about the holidays?  The look in Ethan’s eye when he sees Santa, a Christmas tree or a present.  It is priceless.  This weekend we put up the tree and decorated the house – Ethan was thrilled!

Rainforests are the big casualty in the biofuel movement – an ironic development.  Jason Fried details this unintended effect in his blog.  An article in the New Scientist details the problem: The drive for “green energy” in the developed world is having the perverse effect of encouraging the destruction of tropical rainforests. From the orang-utan [...]

Most startups don’t have their own song, but it seems as though EVERYTHING is big in Japan.  Do you remember these lyrics from high school?  Know who the band was? Winter’s cityside Crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head and in the wind I had no illusions That I’d ever find a glimps of [...]

Nivi suggested a new tag for companies that Mike won’t profile (not sure if he has profiled this one or not): techcrunch-endrun.  Anyway, no one really uses it, but today someone tagged NetWorthIQ with it and it popped in my reader. What is it?  The tagger suggested, "NetworthIQ is a social personal finance tool. It [...]

I love it when Ethan (my four year old) comes to the office.  David Cowan at Bessemer has a three year old who visits the office – on one occasion he sat down in a meeting and starting singing, You are my sunshine…  Man kids are cool!    

The guys at LogoWorks created the new logo for SimpleTicket.  What do you think?  Not bad for a couple of hundred bucks right?  

I was just about to give my video iPod to my brother-in-law and I read this.  Looks like TIVO has figured out how to let me save my shows to my iPod – sorry Stanley…   [via and and and and] 

Brian blogged generally on the topic of "loosely joined" last week.  This week Ray Ozzie, Microsoft CTO blogged about a new specification that Microsoft is proposing called the SSE specification (simple sharing extensions).  Ray details: As an industry, we have simply not designed our calendaring and directory software and services for this “mesh” model.  The [...]

Interesting post on the Architel blog titled, 8.5 Avoidable Things!.  The post is an exceprt from an article by Michael Cooch, CEO of Everon titled, "Stop! The 8.5 Perfectly Avoidable Things You do to Mess Up Your Computer!"  Check out all 8.5 here. 

I found a neat little site called 40 faces.  It shows the faces of the authors of the last forty blog posts.