Image by Paul Watson via Flickr You hear about the cloud taking over and operating systems being obsolete, but it’s only when you get your hands dirty that you really understand the scale and speed of this transition. I installed Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Netbook Remix on my Acer Aspire One Netbook over the weekend.  It took about 15 minutes [...]

Image via Wikipedia In the past three weeks, I have disputed around 4 credit card charges.  I find that I average around one dispute a week.  Here are my most recent disputes: Wells Fargo refused to refund a “mortgage deposit,” despite being unable to deliver a mortgage to me less than 25 hours before my apartment closing. Equinox Fitness charged [...]

Image via Wikipedia Let me begin by saying this has nothing to do with boxee.  It’s just that the analogy of boxee on AppleTV is how the idea resonated with me. The challenge: Build a piece of software that allows a user of a Kindle, to: Select a section of text and Tweet it out with comments via the Twitter [...]

The most influential and singularly worthwhile portion of my business school education was my sessions in Bruce Greenwald’s class, Economics of Strategic Behavior.  Twice a week we thrashed through case studies of firms like Coca Cola, Dell, Wall-Mart, and Coors.  However, at the end, Greenwald concluded the class with the same sentiment that he concludes his book, Competition Demystified: “It [...]