IPO Loses Its Luster For Some These Days

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Youth loses some luster among VC
start-ups

Youth loses some luster among VC
start-ups 11/16/2003 07:03 AM
SiliconValley.com Nov 16 2003 6:33AM ET

Big IT deals lose luster

Big IT deals lose luster 09/17/2004 06:02 PM
USA Today Sep 17 2004 9:24PM GMT

Google debut losing luster

Google debut losing luster 08/08/2004 02:07 PM
San Jose Mercury News Aug 8 2004 4:32PM GMT

Yahoo emerges from dot-com gloom to
regain its luster

Yahoo emerges from dot-com gloom to
regain its luster 01/16/2004 11:03 AM
SiliconValley.com Jan 16 2004 1:57AM GMT

Switches look to security to recapture
lost luster

Switches look to security to recapture
lost luster 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
When the dot-com boom went bust so did the market for switches that shuttle traffic between servers, but as security concerns mount, these network elements have found new ways to make themselves useful.

What Arnold Schwarzenegger can do to
help restore Golden State's luster

What Arnold Schwarzenegger can do to
help restore Golden State's luster 10/30/2003 11:58 PM
SiliconValley.com Oct 12 2003 6:10AM ET

Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie
O'Donnell's Method: Create It by the
Blogful

Need Some New Luster? Try Rosie
O'Donnell's Method: Create It by the
Blogful 03/14/2005 06:16 PM
Rosie O'Donnell, who spent most of the last five years extricating herself from public life, is back, in a post-celebrity sort of way.

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar

How Dotster cost me days and days of
downtime: stay away from this registrar 08/12/2004 07:36 AM
A year ago, the DNS for craphound.com disappeared. Which was weird, because I was paying for DNS with Dotster, my registrar.

I called them up and spoke to their tech support people. "Oh yeah," they said, "your paid service ended a month ago but our billing system was broken so we didn't send out a notice. So we terminated you for nonpayment. But dude, you're lucky! We gave you a free month's DNS!"

Lucky lucky me. I got a free month's DNS and to pay for it, I was bouncing mail all over the Internet and my Website wasn't resolving. Bastards. I bought two years' worth of DNS and vowed that when the domain came up for renewal, I'd switch away from Dotster. I sent them an email telling them as much and got an email back apologizing and saying that they would certainly never terminate my DNS wihtout notice again (you see where this is going, I trust)

Craphound.com is up for renewal at the end of August. Not wanting to leave things to the last minute, I changed over early this month, switching registrars to Domain Direct, who are now the registrar for all of my domains, and boingboing.net besides.

I didn't move over the DNS -- I figured I'd paid Dotster for another year's service, I might as well get it. Instead, I left myself a reminder in my iCal for next July to set up DNS at DomainDirect a month ahead of the service running out on Dotster.

This morning, Dotster terminated my DNS. Without warning. And when I called, they told me there was nothing they could do about it. Even though there's nothing in my DNS contract that says that DNS is provided to domains registered with Dotster and no others, that is, apparently, their policy. And they can't make exceptions. Not even for 48h while I effect a graceful change to DomainDirect (who have been fantastic throughout and now have 100 percent of my domain registration and DNS business).

Bastards.

If the USA loses

If the USA loses 03/19/2003 10:27 PM
So you're tired of hearing about the war, eh? Me too, but you have to have some concern over what would happen if the USA loses. I bet you Saddam's first move as president would be to ban photoshop.

In the end, everyone loses

In the end, everyone loses 01/22/2004 02:59 AM
I personally believe that meetings that go on for hours without a single break should be banned. There's no time to do your email (which normally takes an hour or two), nor there's any chance to just... relax. So people drudge along, trying to keep together whatever strings of consciousness they still have after a few hours, and nobody really remembers afterwards what was decided, because everyone was forced to do multiple things at the same time. The world does not stop for the meetings, as much as we would like it to.

On a completely different note... I wrote a short thing about the art of letting go, after many long discussions with friends, who have opened my eyes to see whole new worlds. In a few weeks I'll consider it completely crap, and use printouts for target practice, but for the moment it says - in an awkward, clunky sort of way - some things that I have learned. Hope you like it.

End of Days

End of Days 07/19/2004 01:07 AM

Took a few days off

Took a few days off 11/10/2003 11:39 PM
Big things happening at my house and sometimes you have to take care of things the wife needs taken care...

No TV for 30 Days

No TV for 30 Days 01/25/2004 06:22 PM
Starting now, I'm not going to power on my TV at all during the next 30 days, nor will I watch the TVs at work. The TV will remain off. I really don't watch TV much compared to the average American, but still... I realized last night how much of my time is sucked away by it. My time is valuable. I really don't get that much out of most of the shows I watch. On Feb 25th, I'll...

Ever had one of those days???

Ever had one of those days??? 01/29/2004 03:02 PM
Wake up to an asshole's lameass comment that sets my mood toilet bound, stressing on tomorrow's events, starting to feel...

Those were the days

Those were the days 08/17/2004 09:15 PM
ZDNet Aug 18 2004 0:32AM GMT

The bad new days?

The bad new days? 07/23/2004 02:37 PM
CNN Jul 23 2004 5:41PM GMT

"5 days"

"5 days" 06/11/2004 12:09 AM

300 Days To Go!

300 Days To Go! 07/23/2004 01:06 AM
With all the hoopla and excitement suurounding Comic-Con, I almost forgot something significant about today's date...300 days to go until Star Wars: Episode III! If you'd like to keep track of the countdown, you can download a countdown clock right now at Clockdown.com.

Better Days for May?

Better Days for May? 05/11/2004 02:57 PM
Is May lagging the retail revolution -- or is it poised to benefit from a more wary consumer?

Google loses .com.au

Google loses .com.au 04/04/2005 12:34 AM
ZDNet Australia Apr 4 2005 3:42AM GMT

EDS loses out on big Brit bid

EDS loses out on big Brit bid 12/12/2003 10:21 AM
Cap Gemini and its partner Fujitsu Services win out as the preferred suppliers in 10-year, $5.2 billion IT outsourcing contract with the U.K.'s Inland Revenue service.

Navy Loses an AUV

Navy Loses an AUV 05/07/2004 01:34 PM
Noah Shackman noticed a Canadian Press report saying that the Navy can't seem to find their Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (PDF format). The bright yellow BPAUV weighs 800 pounds, is 122 inches long, 21 inches in diameter and was last seen off the coast of Norway where it was taking part in a military exercise. The BPAUV was built by Bluefin Robotics where you can find more photos and video of the robot sub. The Navy's highly automated and futuristic-looking HSV-2 Swift vessel is still out looking for the little lost robot.

HP loses two more execs

HP loses two more execs 11/12/2003 03:22 PM
More executives head for the door at Hewlett-Packard, with the announcement that two Compaq alumni based in Europe are stepping down.

Hubble loses an eye

Hubble loses an eye 08/09/2004 05:44 AM
Analysis points to power supply problems

The FCC Loses its Memory

The FCC Loses its Memory 06/22/2005 02:43 AM

One non-Supernova event signficant enough to note here. Bob Pepper, Chief of Policy Development at the FCC and my former boss and mentor, is leaving the Commission. (He just told me the internal email went around announcing his farewell party, so that makes it official!)

Pepper is irreplaceable. He's the institutional memory of the FCC on pretty much every important policy issue. And he has been at the center of tech policy strategy at the FCC since before the commercial Internet emerged. I don't have time right now for a fuller appreciation, but it's a great loss for the FCC.

US loses 400,000 IT jobs

US loses 400,000 IT jobs 09/15/2004 04:08 AM
Most of them after the recession ended

Man loses job thanks to IM virus

Man loses job thanks to IM virus 07/01/2004 06:56 AM

Wanadoo UK loses ?30m

Wanadoo UK loses ?30m 02/11/2004 09:36 AM
Easily done

U.S. loses 400,000 IT jobs

U.S. loses 400,000 IT jobs 09/15/2004 05:03 PM
globetechnology.com Sep 15 2004 8:34PM GMT

Around the Crater in 90 Days

Around the Crater in 90 Days 04/14/2004 02:34 PM

NASA's Spirit rover recently reached it's "Mission Success" point, meeting all the goals that NASA had outlined for the mission. The rover is still doing science and going strong, but the turbo-geeks at JPL marked the occasion with a cool little Quicktime video showing how the rover has done its work over the past 90 days by making a time-compressed sequence of the rover's exploits:

In 90 martian days, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has performed a remarkable series of drives, digs and scientific investigations at Gusev Crater, Mars. This video documents many of the rover's accomplishments by stringing together images taken throughout the mission by the rover's front hazard-avoidance camera and microscopic imager instrument.

Sped up like this, it's fun to watch the thing sniff around Mars like an excited collie at the dog park.

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Jonathan's First Three Days

Jonathan's First Three Days 12/19/2004 02:52 PM
Here are some photos of Jonathan's first three days. (Click on the picture to see the photo album.)...

Its 26 days later, do you know where
your returns are?

Its 26 days later, do you know where
your returns are? 01/02/2004 03:36 AM
InternetRetailer.com Jan 2 2004 3:12AM ET

The Seven Days of Creation

The Seven Days of Creation 12/16/2003 05:33 AM
The president of the United States wants to ban it. A lab in Massachusetts is working to perfect it. The inside story of a human cloning experiment. By Wendy Goldman Rohm from Wired magazine.

Days Until the End of the Month

Days Until the End of the Month 08/02/2004 01:49 PM

U B U W E B :: 365 Days Project

U B U W E B :: 365 Days Project 06/25/2004 04:10 AM
One MP3 a day... for one year .. 365 Days re-launched - .. permanent home

ubu.com/outsiders/365
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90 Days, 90 Photographs

90 Days, 90 Photographs 12/17/2004 06:41 PM
Photographer Jim Brandenburg gave himself a challenge: for 90 days between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice he would take exactly one photograph each day, around his home near Minnesota's million-acre B oundary Waters Wilderness. He then repeated the challenge in the summer, again taking one photograph each day from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox. You can see the results here: Chased by The Light and Looking for the Summer.

VCs Only Do Tech These Days

VCs Only Do Tech These Days 08/09/2004 12:51 PM
VCs have been complai ning lately that there's too much money going into "me too" companies, making it more difficult for them to make themselves even richer. This is, of course, a ridiculous complaint, since those very same VCs go on to claim that their investment and their expertise makes a difference much more than money. If that were true, they wouldn't worry about other, lesser VCs who couldn't make quite the same difference. Of course, another reason this is ridiculous is because it's a problem that VCs have created by themselves by rushing in to invest in the same space. It's become a pretty common joke on Sand Hill if one of the big name firms makes an investment in a space, all the others need to place their bets as well. That means, of course, that businesses outside of the norm don't get funded -- which is nothing new at all -- but, right now "the norm" is all about technology. If you have a non-tech business, don't expect to raise venture capital. Of course, what the article here doesn't say is that many non-tech businesses don't need venture capital. It's an unfortunate sign of the times that many entrepreneurs have been brainwashed to believe that part of the startup process is about raising venture capital (there are even those who seem to think that's the entire purpose of starting a company, forgetting the whole "building a product and getting revenue" part of the equation). Many non-tech businesses simply don't fit the type of business that a VC would invest in anyway, since VCs are looking for high growth opportunities. On the other hand, however, many VCs lately have gotten locked into this silly idea that patents are the only way to have a competitive advantage, without realizing that patents are a very weak, and not particularly sustainable form of competitive advantage. VCs who invest in companies who cite their patent portfolio as one of their strengths are deluding themselves. However, right now, tech companies are stockpi ling patents, and it gives the VCs an easy number which they can use to keep score ("Oooh, we need to invest with this company, since they have 25 patents in this hot space that so-and-so just invested in").

How many days in the week?

How many days in the week? 07/31/2004 03:43 AM

Evidently you can't believe anyone these
days

Evidently you can't believe anyone these
days 05/06/2004 09:37 PM
Michael Moore lied about Disney. Yup. We've been taken for fools. It was a publicity stunt all along.
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