Quoted: One of the names I considered for this venture was Beachware. It's a phrase that I coined and have been using for years. Simply put, Beachware is software that enables you to be at the beach. Rather than sitting in your office or your home, using my software, you can be sitting at the beach sipping a Margarita (or maybe a Grape Nehi). Yesterday, I wrote:

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Quoted: It hit me like a ton of bricks today - this will be my first time voting in Washington State elections. So, it seems problematic that I know more about Gov. Corzine's record in New Jersey or Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to seek a third term in New York than I do about Gregoire and Rossi.

Quoted: So what am I doing? A friend of mine chastised me earlier today for not yet revealing what I'm doing, as if I was deliberately trying to create suspense. Actually, I wasn't. The truth is that I wanted my first message of what I'm doing to be a strong one. You only get one chance to make a first impression and all that. So I wanted to get my XYZ statement

Quoted: Civil unions were not equal enough in the "Constitution State," according to its state constitution. Connecticut became the third state to legalize same-sex marriage today in a 4-3 decision by the state Supreme Court.In an 85-page decision issued at 11:30 a.m., the court ruled that the state had "failed to establish adequate reason to justify the statutory

Quoted: One of the albums I've been listening to in the car lately is Give Us Your Poor from Appleseed Recordings, a fundraising CD of music featuring Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, Bon Von Jovi, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, plus actors Tim Robbins and Danny Glover and many others. I would enjoy this album even if it were just a regular album, but here

Quoted: At the Tokyo Game Show, Microsoft finally let everyone in on the date that their current Xbox experience would be ending, and the New Xbox Experience would be, er, beginning. We knew it would be coming in the fall, but the firm date is November 19th. We hope you're ready to spend hours working on that perfect Avatar, because

Quoted: Upcoming Events for Startups and Entrepreneurs in Seattle: 10/10/2008 - Bellevue Behind Closed Doors: How VCs Really Evaluate Investments 10/11/2008 - Seattle BigFoot Blogging Conference 10/13/2008 - Seattle Mobile Monday 10/13/2008 - Seattle Seattle Search Engine Optimization Meetup 10/15/2008 - Seattle Seattle Tech Startups - Public Speaking

# Where? - Linda’s Tavern (Capitol Hill) - 707 E Pine St, Seattle, WA 98122
# When? - 6:30pm, every Thursday (starting 9/25/08)
# Who/What? - Startup junkies, networkers, folks interested in learning new things and meeting new people, activists, and fun people!

Quoted: The world is such that sometimes an accidental sequence of events can result in a glimpse of a world that is not of this world. That other world we immediately recognize as heaven. Some homes in the Italian town of Marino had wine instead of water coming from their taps because of a plumbing mistake, residents say.One Marino resident identified only

Quoted: Spent most of today on two tasks: Competitive analysisDefining the schemaThe competitive analysis isn't a lot of fun, but it's essential. Among other things, I need it to write my XYZ statement that explains what I'm doing. For those who haven't heard the term, an XYZ statement looks like this: Groupthink is an X (what) for Y (who) that delivers Z (benefit).If