I've been the CIO of Leprechaun, LLC for the past 22 months. As of Monday, that will no longer be the case. Jim Stalder will be taking over the role.
I'll be in the office until May 2nd, tying up loose ends. Then back to California full-time.
Any really good new idea will seem bad to most people; otherwise someone would already be doing it.
I just got an e-mail newsletter from Mike Daisey with this little gem:
Leap day is upon us--the rarest day on the calendar, which has no psychic or mythological signifcance attached to it beyond the need to make all our heavenly accounting books come out balanced. I've always thought that it should mean something, this day that only surfaces occasionally--it should be a night when the walls between worlds are thin, when the fates are shaken loose, when we can hear the rumbling bellows of the afterlife all around us. There should be a celebration, once every four years--masqued balls of exquiste complexity, where no one is allowed to speak, especially not to the lover they bring with them.
Something like that.
Happy Leap Day!
Through the auspices of Adam Duvander, one of my excellent partners at Who2.com, I will be speaking at SXSW on a panel entitled Taking Your Web Talent to the Video Game Industry.
March 8th at 2 PM.
Be there. Aloha.
Microsoft was handing out copies of Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House? at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. Here's one review of the book from Amazon:
Only a collector of Microsoft memorabilia would want to buy this book. If this sells, it will signal to advertisers worldwide that if they disguise their sales literature cleverly enough, rubes will buy it.
That said, this book is part of a very clever $10 million ad campaign for the Windows Home Server made by HP. The book, by a fictitious psychologist, can be read in its entirely at stayathomeserver com. The site uses fake news clips and the book to promote the idea that servers aren't just office equipment, but make sense in a home that features multiple computers, XBOXes, and other networked technology.
The title is a great one, sure to be a classic along with my all time favorite kids book, Everyone Poops.
From Tim O'Reilly:
... there's no rewind for anything in life. You only get one. So this is great advice for any situation. It reminds me of a line from a fabulous science-fiction book entitled The Last Dancer. The sentiment went something like this: "Most people say there's nothing worth dying for. But what you do every day is what you're dying for. Make it count."
Why not help those less fortunate? It's fun and easy:
This sort of thing gives me hope for the human race (via Seth).
I don't own an iPhone (see my previous post), but offering a $100 credit when the price drop was $200 seems insulting.
And I'm surprised that the outcry came as a surprise to Apple. It would have been so much better to have announced it at the same time as the price drop, not a day or two later. And since it's a store credit, not real cash, the "win 'em over" manuever would have been a $250 credit.
When you screw up, a +1 recovery (fix it plus a little extra) is the right answer.
I'm a little surprised that Seth found Apple's gesture worth remarking upon.
I'm not particulary into the steampunk thing (although I did enjoy Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age), but this is very cool:
from The Steampunk Workshop. Thanks to David St. Lawrence for the pointer.
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