Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I haven’t written any posts featuring artists I like in a while so it’s time to pick it up again because there has been an explosion of art works in my favorite medium, wood. Bert Marsh is an English based wood turner that caught my attention recently for his simple vessels that are exquisitely turned [...]
I was just thinking today that I have been getting some really fantastic service from local businesses lately. Crouching Tiger has some of the best Chinese food anywhere and they are super nice people, West Coast Glass really went out of their way to get 2 pieces of glass for my house, were very friendly, [...]
I think that pretty much from the beginning there existed a tension between users and software developers around the notion of interoperability. Users want it while developers more often than not view it as a threat to their strategy to lock users into their apps and services. With social networks the tension has increased because [...]
The WSJ profiled how sales tax revenue has dropped significantly across the country but they missed a big factor… new vehicle purchases. State and local sales taxes, among the largest sources of revenue for municipalities, fell 6.1% in the fourth quarter of last year, as consumers bought fewer clothes, ate out less and canceled vacations. [...]