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.  

The new corporate website for Architel is almost finished.  The site was built with three WordPress blogs mashed up together.  Read about it here.  Anyway, you can visit the site at its temporary location at http://main.architel.com.  Here are a few screenshots:  

So I was all excited that the new standard for HD DVDs was going to be released shortly.  As it turns out HP and Blu-ray are still fighting.  Ug!  MotorSport Ranch will still be seen in glorious SD instead of fantastic HD.  DARN IT!  Read more here, here, here, here and here.

Great news from MIT – the $100 laptop.  The computer is hand-cranked and the hope is that millions of the devices will find their way into the hands of the poorest people in the world.  Read more here, here, here, here, and here. 

Steve Shu (oh Steve – you need to sign up for BarCamp) linked to Carlos Velez series of posts on the mistakes entrepreneurs make when raising capital (I think I have made all of them).  Mistake One: Not writing a check Mistake Two: VC is the only path Mistake Three: Taking your time Mistake Four: [...]