Merry Christmas!

Posted by Frank - December 25, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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Here’s wishing you and your family a very merry Christmas. If you haven’t already, enjoy the best Christmas song to come along more than a decade:

MySQL founder Michael Widenius concerned about sale to Oracle

Posted by Frank - December 18, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies

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In case you haven’t heard, Sun is being bought by Oracle. After dancing around the issue in blog posts over the past 8 months, MySQL developer-founder Michael “Monty” Widenius finally comes out and adamantly opposes MySQL’s role in the sale. In a Dec. 12 blog post, Widenius tries to rally open source MySQL supporters in [...]

New scroll transition effect – a breakdown

Posted by Frank - December 10, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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I was just perusing ThinkGeek for Christmas gift ideas when I noticed that the overflow graphics — the stuff that appears to left and right of the main content at larger screen resolutions — was different depending on where you scrolled. At the top it showed robots, and zombies at the bottom. Check it out [...]

Your next flash drive

Posted by Frank - December 4, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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A friend passed along his latest recommendation for USB sticks, the Patriot Xporter XT Boost 4GB Flash Drive (newegg link). Rugged exterior, and apparently legendary transfer speeds. New Egg is always my first stop due to the fantastic user reviews. I was sold on this one when I read the following review… Pros: Like everyone [...]

Advice for my teenage self

Posted by Frank - December 1, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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I ran into the Youth Minister for my high school youth group at a friend’s wedding a few weeks back, and he graciously offered me the opportunity to write a letter to be read aloud at an upcoming retreat to the high school attendees. I was more than happy to oblige. Below is an excerpt [...]

Dropping prices should have a cooldown timer

Posted by Frank - November 13, 2009 - For entrepreneurs

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After my post discussing how vendor-client relationships are complete crap most of the time — which was really a thinly veiled excuse to post a funny vid — a friend of mine posted a response on my Facebook page: While you’re right that you in essence ‘get what you pay for’ in this economic climate [...]

Digg shows off brutal honesty FTW

Posted by Frank - November 10, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For techies

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Saw this post come across the community section the official Digg blog today discussing changes to the ads they’re running in the PC Games section. The mind-blowing line: And if advertising skins just aren’t your thing, one of our users provided this story on how to disable them. They not only acknowledge that people are [...]

The vendor-client relationship (is complete crap)

Posted by Frank - November 9, 2009 - For entrepreneurs

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This is one facet of business that I simply never understood, and always drove me nuts. My boss would ask me to “get a better price,” and I’d have to go back to the vendor and essentially beg them to drop the price. How often does the purchasing company really have any leverage to ask [...]

BusinessWeek’s most promising startups. Seriously?

Posted by Frank - November 7, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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Came across this BusinessWeek article (published on Yahoo!) today discussing companies that “embody the creativity and resiliency common among today’s entrepreneurs.” They do make it clear that it’s a new recurring segment, so maybe they’re still getting their feet under them. That’s what I’m hoping anyway, because I see nothing but a bunch of me-toos [...]

New StumbleUpon shorter site submission

Posted by Frank - November 5, 2009 - For entrepreneurs, For everyone, For techies

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I was submitting a good business-oriented discussion about SEO just now to StumbleUpon and I noticed they’ve changed how submissions of a new site work. Before, you picked a category for the site, offered a description, and included any worthwhile tags. It wasn’t a whole lot, but I have done the internal “groan” when presented [...]