Terry Jones

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Passport, please.

Monday, November 5th, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Passport, please.

I wrote this at the airport in Barcelona waiting for a flight to Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin. At check-in I wasn't asked whether I had packed my bags myself of ... Read more..

Bicycle removal problem

Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted under other. | 6 Comments »

Walking on the UCSD campus in 1998, I passed a bike rack that looked partly like a scrap metal junkyard. There were bikes in many conditions, from perfect to ... Read more..

Correfoc

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007 Posted under barcelona. | 2 Comments »

Yet another in the Homage to Barcelona series... In September every year during the fiesta of La Mercè, there's a Correfoc. It's probably impossible to convey what being in the middle ... Read more..

Powerset hampered by limited resources? Oh please

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on Powerset hampered by limited resources? Oh please

I don't mean to appear cold-hearted. I have a heart. Really. But news of a shakeup at Powerset given release delays doesn't come as a surprise at all. What is surprising ... Read more..

That deep sucking sound

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on That deep sucking sound

First of all, let me just say that Jason Calacanis is a genius. Having said that, I most humbly submit that his posting today on Facebook's WORST two features is a ... Read more..

Bésame mucho

Friday, November 2nd, 2007 Posted under barcelona, music. | 6 Comments »

I love Barcelona. I love living in Barcelona. There are many reasons. One of them is that stuff like the following happens on a regular basis. At 8pm tonight I could ... Read more..

Twitterquake

Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted under companies, twitter. | Comments Off on Twitterquake

Fastest news in the West? Twitter wins hands down. Read more..

Stagnant email address arms race

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted under tech. | 2 Comments »

I like arms races. But in an interesting arms race there's frequent movement on both sides. So I'm often surprised that the measures people and programs take to obscure email addresses ... Read more..

Risk and reward, from the investor POV

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted under companies. | Comments Off on Risk and reward, from the investor POV

I'm very curious about the correlation of perceived early stage (seed, series A) startup risk and the eventual reward. That is, if you plotted a set of well-informed potential investors' ... Read more..

Succinct Python

Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted under python. | Comments Off on Succinct Python

Apropos of nothing... Having passed beyond the macho need to write obscure code, I'm not fond of coding constructs that make me scratch my head. But I found this yesterday in the ... Read more..

More old-fashioned telephone confusion

Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted under tech. | Comments Off on More old-fashioned telephone confusion

My 7-year-old daughter was here the other day and needed to make a call. She decided to use my landline, but found the old-fashioned phone (the one Telefonica installed, new, ... Read more..

Cereal, coffee, bread

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Posted under me. | Comments Off on Cereal, coffee, bread

My company is fueled in large part by 3 ingredients: cereal, coffee, and bread. Mainly cereal. In my kitchen there are 6 empty boxes of cereal stacked end to end. Kelloggs ... Read more..

On Andreessen on platforms

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | 2 Comments »

[This taken from my comment on Fred Wilson's posting Andreessen on Platforms, in which he discussed Marc Andreessen's posting The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet.] I think ... Read more..

The value of APIs to startups

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech, twitter. | 2 Comments »

[This pulled from my comments and questions on Fred Wilson's posting Every Product Is A Platform on September 10, 2007] My question to VCs and others is where you see ... Read more..

Promoting comments

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under me. | Comments Off on Promoting comments

While this blog was out of action July-September 2007 I made some apparently "long" comments on other blogs. I'm going to pull them and post them here. While a comment ... Read more..

Twisting the towel

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted under companies, tech. | Comments Off on Twisting the towel

Russell and I met with Esther Dyson (a Fluidinfo investor) recently. After she'd listened to our presentation and seen the latest demo, she said that we'd "given the towel another ... Read more..

The opposite of shared nothing?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted under tech. | 2 Comments »

Shared nothing architectures are all the rage. And so, a little geeky joke to lighten the mood around here: Q: What's the opposite of shared nothing? A: Shard nothing. Look it up. Read more..

Target cheat sheet

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted under python. | Comments Off on Target cheat sheet

B O H C N K R E W I have a friend who sends me the Target puzzle from the Sydney Morning Herald every day. I've loved doing anagrams for as long as I can remember. I used ... Read more..

Pocket battleship

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted under me. | Comments Off on Pocket battleship

Last night I dreamed that Peter Roebuck, my cricket coach in 1981, had written an extremely long article about me, full of color pictures. Weirdly though, he had spelled my ... Read more..

Live from the Gatwick Express

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted under travel. | Comments Off on Live from the Gatwick Express

I've flown in to the UK probably 30 times over the last 3 years. Here's how to cut a few corners: It should go without saying - don't check baggage unless you ... Read more..