Month: May 2008
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5/30 Astronomy Report
The weather looked promising last night, and the ClearSkyChart was reporting good news. At around noon, I shot a quick e-mail over to a few of the people I’ve viewed with before, and was happy to get a quick response from Barry (who lives near Rattlesnake) that the skies were in fact clear. I cleared…
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Hosting Solutions: Alternatives to Layered Technologies?
I’ve been an exceptionally happy customer of Layered Technologies for a little over 3 years now, and they’ve just announced a monthly price increase of about 30%. Yes, a 30% increase. My rates are going to go from $93/month to $121/month in July. Granted, I split this between two other people, but that’s crazy. Seems…
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Fox News – You are dumb.
It’s official.
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The last three hours have been spent …
Reading RSS feeds. Didn’t get a good chance to read feeds this week at all: For the record: I didn’t hit the panic button. I read them all.
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Random – the competition of free stuff giveaways
Taken at my office today. Guess some guy had some old free stuff to give away, and someone else decided to trump that with a new free stuff sign. (For the record, the new stuff sign is pointing at our shelf of office supplies: notepads, pens, pencils, post-it® notes, staples…)
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The morning at work…
Yep, that’s a fire truck. Bunch of co-workers standing to the left milling around aimlessly due to a (false) fire alarm that meant for evacuations. Pretty impressive response: City of Redmond rolled what I counted as 4 units, and the City of Kirkland rolled 1 as well. This isn’t normally what people mean when they…
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What a great weekend
(I’m including Thursday night as the official start of my weekend, since I took Friday off) Thursday night: telescope until 4:30am Friday: Slept till 11:30am. Caught up on e-mail, played some Grand Theft Auto IV. Saturday: Seattle Cheese Festival, followed by an acquisition of scallops and spot prawns at the Pike Place Fish Market in…
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The weather is warming and the clouds are vanishing
Seattle in the summertime, oh how I love it. Today, the temperature breached the 80°F mark, and there hasn’t been a cloud in the sky. A sign of things to come. As has become common practice for me now, anytime there hasn’t been clouds, I’ve been out at night with the telescope and last night…
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25x revenue is a company valuation? Huh?
I was reading the article by Mark Evans that laid out how Flickr could have an independent valuation of $4 billion dollars. He used a multiplier defined by Henry Blodgett in determining the value of Facebook: 25 times a company’s annual revenue is their valuation. Wow. I decided to apply this to a few other…