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March 29, 2007
Hoodoo Gurus in Solana Beach
On Tuesday night, I was lucky enough to catch the Hoodoo Gurus at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. This was the sixth of ten shows in the U.S. and it showed - the Gurus were in great form! The Belly Up was a very cool venue with good lighting and sound.
You can find the set list here.
The Gurus delved heavily into their older stuff, with a surprising number of songs from their first two discs (Lelani was a highlight). I saw them in San Francisco on their last tour, 13 years ago. Hopefully they'll be back before 2020.
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Posted by davehod at 01:40 PM | Comments (0)
Ouch! It's My Birthday
I officially turned 40 last Saturday - I woke up feeling wiser, if not older :-)
My wife organized a get-together for some close friends at Nola's in Palo Alto. It was a great mix of friends from childhood, college, startups, etc. It is hard to believe that fully one-third of my life is over.
A few photos:
Congrats to Bill and Kelley on their recent engagement!
The party organizer
The original iPrint crew
Posted by davehod at 01:03 PM | Comments (0)
March 27, 2007
Monetizing Sourceforge
Sourceforge is looking into monetizing
Dear SourceForge.net community member,As an active participant in the Open Source community, you may be excited to learn about a new feature that we will add to SourceForge.net in late spring/early summer. This feature will allow you to buy or sell services for Open Source software on SourceForge.net.
Interested? Follow the link below and we'll keep you updated as we move towards the official launch of this feature: https://ostg.wufoo.com/forms/marketplace-interest-list/
Thank you for your continued support,
The SourceForge.net Team
I'm sure there will be members of the Open Source community who don't like this move, but personally, I think it is the way to go. Sourceforge provides a great service to the community and figuring out ways to keep them in business and grow benefits everyone. I don't have any insight into what they are thinking, but I would guess they are planning on becoming a services marketplace ala Salesforce.com's AppExchange.
Something to watch as they roll it out.
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Posted by davehod at 07:18 AM | Comments (0)
BestBuy Acquires Speakeasy?
I'm a long-time customer of Speakeasy - sure they cost a little more than SBC and others, but their service is great. I've had an account with them since 1998 with no complaints.
This morning, Bruce Chatterly, the CEO, sent an email to the Speakeasy customer base with the following news:
I am pleased to announce that Speakeasy has been acquired by Best Buy, an innovative and growing Fortune 100 company and the top consumer electronics retailer in North America. This is a significant milestone for our company as our new relationship will help us realize our goals of becoming the No. 1 provider of voice and data solutions to small businesses. It is important to note that though Speakeasy will now be a wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, we will continue to operate as a standalone, independent operating division with headquarters in Seattle.
The DSL/ISP space isn't one I watch closely, but this one sure seems like it is from left field. Best Buy in the ISP business?
Here's hoping that this remains true:
How will this change affect my service?
There will be no change or interruption to your existing service or level of customer support. All aspects of your service will continue to be managed by Speakeasy.
Reuters link
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Posted by davehod at 07:03 AM | Comments (0)
March 09, 2007
Ted Husted Lives!
With the release of Struts 2, he seems to blogging on a daily basis - (topics ranging from Struts to Ajax). It's great to get more insight on the Struts/WebWork "merger". Keep it up Ted!
Posted by davehod at 09:50 AM | Comments (0)