Why I won’t touch a company that doesn’t have in-house development The headline might sound like a bit of an exaggeration but in the last 8 years of my life working on and with startups, I’ve found plenty of examples why fully outsourced IT has failed but no good example of when it has worked [...]

I have a collection of about 50 Google Wave domain names that I am considering selling; preferably as a package.  They all center around the concept of a wavelet and have a strong marketing focus.  These would be perfect a premium application store, service or other Google Wave – centered site.  As Wave grows, Google [...]

I need some help.  I have a PCB that I can’t identify and I am hoping someone can shed some information on this. It is a Packard Instrument PCB from 1971.  It has the numbers 7100398 and 5065082 on the board.  There are 7 RCA DR-2110 Numitron tubes soldered to the fron and each one [...]

I just found a great new application in the Android Marketplace: My Tracks (QR Code Below)  Essentially, it takes your Android phone and converts it to a GPS data logger.  You can use it to analyze your running patterns or you can simply export the raw data to Google Docs, Google Maps, Twitter & Email [...]

Just a warning to all considering getting the Nexus One.  According to the T Mobile sales rep I spoke with today (1/09/2010) Google is blocking Visual Voicemail on the Nexus.

I’ve been working on a new laser scanner video.  This uses my same sound-modulated open loop XY scanner as before.  Watch it here or go on over to Vimeo.com for the HD version.  Enjoy!

Huh.  I thought Amish people generally shunned electricity and technology…Of course, I did find this on Home Shopping Network.

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How can I, using only command line tools, find the newest .jpg file in a given directory? I would like to use that in part of a cron job so I can copy images from my moblog to a common directory with my Word Press instillation. Basically: find the matching image cp /moblog /content/images/latest.jpg embed [...]