Blogging from the friendly skies thanks to Virgin America... I wonder if someday I will be blogging from the friendly spaces with Virgin Galactic? Could happen... maybe on my way to Titan :)
I wonder if the world in which I take Virgin Galactic to Titan will be like the world of Star Trek? Guess I'll find out, and probably blog about it. Stay tuned... (for a long time...) ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Just horrible: fire rips through Santa Barbara neighborhoods... wow. I use "sucks" a lot, but this really sucks... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
So I just reported on OpenTable possibly going public, and then found myself using them, to find a restaurant in Arlington and make a reservation. Not the first time, and not the last; they have a real business... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Base. A really old post from Liron Shapira showed up in my RSS reader today, and I read it, and I liked it (and I linked it :). "What I'm wondering is, did people had an analogous base state in their homes before computers became ubiquitous? I guess in the last century it was in front of the TV. Before that, in front of the radio? In the easy chair with a newspaper? At the desk with a pen and paper?" I think increasingly now people use their cellphone as their "base". I can feel mine slowly moving from my laptop... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Sergey Brin has posted Google's 2008 founder's letter. It's a bit long but pretty thought-provoking and interesting... he takes a longer view, and he's right; the technologies we are developing *now* are going to change the world forever. In fact this is an interesting moment in time, when all technology ceases to seem like magic, no matter how magical... ![Permalink](/images/link.gif)
Over and out... I hope you celebrated Odd Day in style :)
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