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394 days ago I posted to HackerNews that I not only had a startup idea but after a few brief conversation I had also "secured" some funding to build an MVP. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2223764
Read more →“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.??? –Oscar Wilde
Read more →Lisa shared a website with me last night about social action, volunteering and of all places Disneyland. The meat of the matter is – Disney wants to inspire a million people to volunteer a day of serv
Read more →My rules for keeping out of the running.. Use dynamite sparingly Look before you leap Don't jump back in the lake Leave the balloons to the movie Up. http://www.darwinawards.com
Read more →Where was this post three weeks ago? http://www.bitrebels.com/geek/do-not-feed-the-trolls/ A great article about the love hate relationship that trolls have with the Internet community in general. The
Read more →I have had some emails requesting some insight into where the traffic is coming from. Well it started with Engadget yesterday and then spread to twitter and a few other sites. I am not really sure of
Read more →I was reviewing the comment to views conversion rate on the youtube video and it really sucks. I think it works out to be .006% views to posts. Not complaining, but on the blog the numbers are yet unk
Read more →Earth Class Mail is a service that I have been looking at for a long time as a solution to my bad habit of NEVER checking my mailbox. They have a system that handles physical mail via email it is Read
Read more →Last night I hit a personal milestone on the social networking site Linkedin. I have 300 business connections and contacts from all over the globe. I have been a member for about 3 years and with my n
Read more →Perhaps it was my lack of desire, perhaps it was the late night of blogging…no matter what the excuse – make sure that you don't forget to vote. Watch this video to see how important each and every vo
Read more →I have started to write a book.. the working title is the "math of internet marketing." The intention of the book is to provide a workable framework for businesses to design, optimize and measure the
Read more →I got sent an email from a friend… Talk about 6 Degrees of separation. I always knew that there were other Brad Slavin's in the world, but its fantastic to see one that is really making a difference.
Read more →What the Heck is Google doing? You may have noticed that our favorite search engine Google has a new . That small little icon that you see in your web browser next the the URL or website name. How man
Read more →Attention Fellow 4-Hour Work Week Aficionados. So far people have shown great participation in the 4HWW meetup many people are engaged in this active dialog on a monthly basis. I feel that the origina
Read more →Doing what I know to do. Doing what I said I would do. Doing what others expect of me even though I did not say I would do it. Doing what is expected of me to have my work complete. Read more ›
Read more →Its midnight Maharajah and I am sitting in the lounge at the New Delhi airport waiting for a flight that is about ten hours away. I have not written for the past few days not because there was nothing
Read more →Being our first night we headed back to our hotel in a Second class train ride. Our original journey on Sunday morning cost us 156 Rupees, which equates to a good breakfast so we decided to take the s
Read more →Technology is fragile. What we expect and what we receive are usually in sync, especially if we have used the technology before. When it gets out of what, that’s when things break down. Today I lost (
Read more →Lisa Day 3 – My burp just tasted like curry.
Read more →Today started at about 6am with the final packing and getting ready. I made sure that I printed (again) the boarding passes and the information for the first hotel in New Delhi the Suncity Hotel. I wa
Read more →First Muse Failed I am a big fan of the 4 Hour Work Week, I maintain one of the largest 4HWW groups on meetup.com and started the 4 Hour Work Week Forums as part of a bigger marketing plan. By Read mo
Read more →On Thursday I just completed my very first 5k. It was the SDJA Turkey Trot. The race started at 8am and Lisa and I were consistently in the middle of the pack the entire race. At about the 1 mile Read
Read more →List of Homes Destroyed in Rancho Bernardo **This list was compiled by the Office of Council member Brian Maienschein and is not an official listing of all structures lost. I will continue to update t
Read more →With San Diego burning, I am reminded of a song by the Housemartins called The Worlds On Fire. Growing up the Housemartins and the Beautiful South were one of my favorite bands of all time. I had the
Read more →Its about 3pm on Sunday and I woke up about two hours ago after being out until sunrise. But before I get there lets start at the beginning. Friday night I hosted a dinner party at the house for about
Read more →Last night I went to the TMBG Show at the House of Blues and it was absolutely fantastic. The old faithfuls like Istanbul (Not Constantinople), Anna Ng, Birdhouse In Your Soul and a handful of new tra
Read more →The purpose that my life is for is to create a connected world where everyone feels love, connectedness and is actively united by participating in their communities. The values that are at the heart o
Read more →There is a new study that was published about the preferences of the modern day single. They state that "the results suggest that modern-day singles, like generations of their ancestors, are driven by
Read more →On this day in 1987 a twelve year old boy and his parents got off the plane in San Diego seeking a different life. Twenty years have given me thousands of opportunities, some missed and some taken. Th
Read more →There is not much that I know but I do know this: Lawsuits settle when you dislike with your attorney more than you dislike the other side.
Read more →Today I lost my temper… I had hoped that it was just a sign of jet lag, I have worked so hard to have made no progress. “Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.??? Mevlana Rumi
Read more →Have you ever had one of those conversations that you just knew was going to be the last of its kind with a person? This evening I had a bare all with my ex-wife in which I quoted a few Read more R
Read more →I don’t quite remember where I left off, but I know that it was more than a few days ago. So much has happened and yet so little has changed. I’ll give you a quick rundown of some of the Read more 
Read more →A day on the Med. What could be better than taking a day trip on the Mediterranean? How about a day trip on the Med with a beautiful woman, sun tanning and swimming? There is really not much to say Re
Read more →We know what early to bed early to rise makes us? But how about late to bed early to rise? What exactly does that create? Today was a travel day from the Kona region near the middle of the country Rea
Read more →Three-forty five in the morning after going to sleep at midnight was not the easiest thing that I have ever done, but I was amazed how easy it was to wake up for the hot air ballooning. I was picked R
Read more →I am writing this after two swigs of the Turkish Uzo that they call Raki and I am also onboard an overnight train to Ankara the capital city of Turkey. Raki is a licorice-flavored liquor that has begu
Read more →Its midnight Cinderella and I have just finished my second day in Turkey in the old city of Istanbul. Today was a whirlwind of sight, smell and experiencing. Colors that the Crayola Company has not ev
Read more →The day before the day of was not quite as busy as I expected, I went to REI and picked up a pair of zippered pants and a hat for the trip. It was their 4th of July sale and Read more ›
Read more →We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. Francois de La Rochefoucauld French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)
Read more →Live in the moment, this is where creativity is maximized.
Read more →How the world can change in the blink of an eye. I was driving on the 5 North in San Diego on Sunday afternoon after doing a little shopping when I noticed some smoke and sparks coming from a car Read
Read more →Friendship is more important than money.
Read more →There are always things in life that do not go as planned and I have learned from these trials and tribulations. To forgive is to give as before. If there is real forgiveness you will participate and
Read more →I really love to travel, I find the experience of being in a new culture absolutely exhilarating. I found a great that that allows you to create a map of the countries that you have visited. It really
Read more →Tomorrow April 7th 1969 the first "request for comment" or RFC was published. An RFC is a template or road map that helped to pave the way for the creation of the Internet. Here is a link to the origi
Read more →The last few weeks have been a little stressful, so I needed a little break. A great friend of mine Aaron said that he had a house at the lake and it was time to open up the cabin for Read more ›
Read more →My life has been amazing of late, I am going through some really horrible personal issues but that aside – life is beautiful and I am open to the possibilities of absolutely anything. And with this ne
Read more →A few weeks ago I received an invitation to go to the Mecca of the Geek – the Google Campus. Even though I know a number of people that work there it is still a once in a lifetime opportunity. Read mo
Read more →For those of you who question if the message is the medium take a look at Montana Meth Project. It has one of the most powerful anti-drug messages that I have ever seen…This is not the old eggs in a R
Read more →Last week I set up an engineering field trip. Unlike our previous outings this trip was not filled with wireless site surveys or any computers at all. The team really needed this, there have been some
Read more →Today I finally went back to the dermatologists office after my initial visit late December when I complained that a piece of metal that got stuck in my finger from about a year ago was beginning to h
Read more →So my story for today is the absolute pleasure I had switching from the 8700 Blackberry to the 8800. I don't quite know if I like the new one more than the old one but there are just some things Read
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