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in case you hadn’t read about the 700mhz auction

or even if you have - found a great overview via: the skydeck blog
700 Mhz Auction - What it means for mobile services 
Also - to point out the obvious, it’s been a while since I’ve posted but since I’m in Tokyo I thought, hey - that I’ve heard that blogging thing is big here, […]

best new things in leopard developer preview

let’s start with something that’s way overdue for an update…. TERMINAL!
backspace fixing in remote terminals (via on option called “delete sends Ctrl-H” , transparent backgrounds, color profiles,  nice tabbed terminals, and just an overall better experience from all of these combined.
I’ve been thinking hard about switching back to linux, and the updated terminal and “spaces” […]

Re: Signal To Noise Ratio

Well, It’s been 3 months since I removed a bunch of crap from my life, and I’ve probably made it through some of the heaviest months (in terms of work/life overload).  The test was successful and I’m convinced, less really is more.
Removing the feeds was a lesson in quality.  I really tried to upgrade the […]

less is more

The signal to noise ratio is too low. (Not high - Edited 4-11 - typo..hah)
The past couple months have been a pretty serious trial in seeing what i can and can’t do (This was self inflicted, fun, and exciting). The next couple of months see more of the same things and I’m starting to […]

YCombinator Startup School notes and links

For those of you who couldn’t make it - or did and had food coma after lunch, here are my humble notes as well as some links to stuff other people did.
Josh’s Startup School Notes 2007
Schedule from that day
Kent Bye’s rough transcription of all of the Startup School 2007 talks
Startup School Wiki Page 

Tech Coffee Shop in San Fran

For my friends moving to San Fran in the near future, and just my own future memory - here’s a great coffeeshop on 21st and Valencia (apparently the city’s premiere tech coffeeshop).
Ritual Roasters:
http://ritualroasters.com/
This place is second only in my book to Diesal Cafe in Davis Square (Cambridge/Sommerville Ma)

Daily Routines of CEOs

Not that we all want to be CEOs, but given that discipline is a most likely a key property of being a successful CEO, we all might be able to learn something from their daily routines.
A line that I especially liked:
Steve Murphy, CEO of publishing company Rodale, says, “A line in a William Blake poem […]

Fixing keys in the OS X Terminal App

Ever have the problem in a Mac OS X terminal that when ssh’ed into a remote machine - delete (backspace on mac) hates you? It doesn’t work but instead send an unparsable character?
Here’s a quick fix.
From Frederic Wenzel’s blog:

Add the following line to your .profile:

[…]

sshfs for mac osx

link is here.
If you’ve never used it - sshfs let’s you mount any network drive over ssh.
Thank you Google Mac team for recently porting fuse to os x and making this possible.  Rock.

Startup School 2007

The date and some details were recently released. Check out info at startupschool.org
The first speaker on the list (more coming) is Chris Anderson (Editor in chief @ Wired Magazine)! I’m in the middle of his book The Long Tail (which is very popular, a great read and mentioned in my previous post/comment […]