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November 2006 Archives

Sun likes it
Wherein Sun’s CEO links to the Startup Essentials pricing I published.
November 29, 2006 - 69 words

Sun Startup Essentials pricing
Here’s the complete price list for the Sun Startup Essentials program.
November 28, 2006 - 588 words, 10 comments

Frank Demmler archives at Texas Startup Blog
Easy access to Frank Demmler’s financing essays.
November 25, 2006 - 82 words, 1 comment

Amazon Shipping indicator
Amazon could help customers by showing them earlier if an item can be shipped for free.
November 25, 2006 - 202 words, 1 comment

DRM, vinyl, and the future
You can still play your old music today. Will you be able to play today’s music in the future?
November 22, 2006 - 462 words

Graffletopia
Graffletopia is a directory for OnmiGraffle stencils. Yummy....
November 21, 2006 - 8 words

High volume subscriptions via IM
It seems a bit counter-intuitive, but I’m finding that the best way for me to keep up with high-volume feeds is to get them out of my reader and into Feed Crier.
November 21, 2006 - 335 words, 1 comment

Textmate for Windows
Textmate for Windows? Not quite, but pretty darn close....
November 21, 2006 - 9 words, 1 comment

MySQL Bar charts
Clever use of the MySQL command line and REPEAT() to create bar charts of your...
November 21, 2006 - 16 words

Sacramento Entrepreneurs Dinner
The next edition of the Sacramento dinners will be Dec 1.
November 20, 2006 - 75 words

SOAP Sucks -- Long live REST
How does SOAP suck? Let me count the ways.
November 20, 2006 - 158 words

Play offices
When you turn your office into a fantasy playland, you get Inventionland.
November 17, 2006 - 58 words

Zune Marketplace Confusion
Zune Marketplace’s Absurd Pricing Scheme—"What you are in fact doing is giving an...
November 14, 2006 - 28 words

Google Blog Search. Now in lowercase.
Google’s started converting most blog search results to lowercase. Odd.
November 13, 2006 - 61 words, 1 comment

Remote Desktop and OSX
Windows Remote Desktop on the Mac is very nice indeed.
November 13, 2006 - 202 words, 5 comments

Sun's used-car pricing
Why’s Sun trying to hide their prices?
November 13, 2006 - 160 words

Opening Java
The legal difficulties involved in open sourcing Java.
November 13, 2006 - 232 words

Political recorded messages
Automated political telemarketing is getting out of hand.
November 5, 2006 - 300 words, 3 comments

Meridian Project Systems acquired
Yet another local acquisition. Meridian Project Systems has been acquired....
November 5, 2006 - 10 words

EcoPhones tries to justify their spam
A spammer responds. He just doesn’t get it.
November 1, 2006 - 568 words, 8 comments

TechCrunch Disclosure
"No one should think TechCrunch is objective or conflict-free. We aren’t. We never have been....
November 1, 2006 - 43 words