I just bought a brand new highly juiced Lenovo R61 laptop for $760. This post documents my selection criteria, and I hope it will help you with your next purchasing decision. Some guys over at Hacker News were recently discussing laptop criteria, so I figured I would add mine here. Some people really care about [...]
The evening kicked off at Vidoop, a good open (and well-disguised) place just off Burnside. Started meeting some folks right away, and exchanging homely business cards. It was nice to see a few ladies there. I got to talk to about half the people. Very friendly and open group. An hour in, all 50 of [...]
As I mentioned in my last post, Eventbrite has kindly provided a list of all 50 SWPDX attendees, including their blogs. I also noticed an “OPML Feed” link there. Sweet! Unfortunately, that OPML is useless for Google Reader (lacking xmlUrls), and likely the same story for other readers. I had to manually load each one [...]
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Portland Startup Weekend starts tomorrow night at 6:00. I’ll be covering the event though my lens in upcoming posts here. It’s been a bit tedious to gather all the bits and pieces of the event. Here is a list of sites that participate in its organization: The Portland Startup Weekend Blog The “Portland” sub-blog of [...]
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A look at automating setup for every new Ubuntu; and maybe even a meme. Linux distros these days tend to be pretty minimal in their default install mode. Many of us used to be in the habit of checking the “Install Everything” box in the earlier Red Hat days. But then the box disappeared, and [...]
A look at the many hats worn in startups, and at those who wear them. I’ve been thinking about how to prepare for Startup Weekend, which is approaching quickly. Part of the registration process was assigning yourself a “specialty”. Of the seven designations, I chose architect for myself, whatever that means. But the role-designation question [...]
There’s a lot going on around Portland, Oregon, to get hackers working together. Below is a list of groups/events I’ve discovered. I haven’t yet attended any of them, but I’m planning to hit most of them throughout this year. Not all are focused on entrepreneurship, but I bet that the attendees are the right types [...]
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Geeks love to classify and name things. We like things to be tidy and well-defined. We like to put things in buckets and directories and tables, and we like to associate things with tags and attributes. What’s difficult, though, is recognizing and classifying situations and phenomena. But at some level we are able to categorize [...]
I just recently finished one of the most popular marketing books of the decade, Purple Cow. It’s by Seth Godin, one of my new heroes (not that I’m a marketer — his heroism comes from being able to communicate with non-marketers). The whole book is centered around the “idea diffusion curve”. I won’t describe it [...]