Stanford drops tuition for some students

I’ve recently been critical of large higher education institutions for how they haven’t been using their formidable endowments, to expand education opportunities for more students. Harvard and Stanford in particular deserve considerable attention for what they do and don’t do with their multi-billion dollar investment funds, but today I want to point out something that […]

VC T-Shirts

Be forewarned, put down whatever you are drinking before you read these t-shirts. Hat tip to John Worrell

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Now It’s Just Blu-Ray

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.

[From Toshiba : Press Releases 19 February, 2008]

In December of last year I wrote that high def DVD […]

Smoke Filled Back Rooms

The thing that I find mildly offensive about the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray deathmatch is that consumer had very little say in the matter. Ultimately this format war has been decided not by what consumers find most appealing from a quality and cost standpoint, but by Wal-Mart, Netflix and big Hollywood studios.

I really don’t know if […]

Students Rising Above

Students Rising Above is a nonprofit that I am privileged to be associated with (Chairman of the Board until yesterday, I completed two 1 year terms and stepped aside for someone else to take that role, but I am still a Director and will remain so). We held our annual board meeting yesterday and I […]

Clear Lanes Open at DIA

I forgot to comment that I used the Clear lane in Denver’s airport last Friday, just a few days after they opened. Given that the security lines were stretching out about 15-20 minutes, this took a huge bite of the time (time=stress) I usually feel at airports. Now I can go round trip from SFO […]

Sunday Night Links

This is long overdue, IMO. When I look at the ever expanding endowments at major higher education institutions combined with rising tuition and fees that should be rolled into tuition, it occurs to me that student interests are often put behind self-interests at these universities. Publicly funded universities are not exempt either, consider for example […]

Bounce in Apple Mail

Noticed a menu item in Apple Mail called “bounce”:

“To discourage someone from sending you messages, you can reject or “bounce” messages from that person, as long as the return address is valid. Bouncing messages can be useful for rejecting mass mailings from companies whose mailing lists you’ve been added to after buying products.”

Cool, […]

Catalog Choice - Eliminate unwanted catalogs

Want to opt-out of all those catalogs you get each and every day? Join Catalog Choice and join a half million other people who are not getting approximately 60 million catalogs each year.

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Gizmo5 - Backdoor dialing

Backdoor dialing… just the sound of it makes you want to check around to make sure no one is looking when you load the page…

It’s an interesting concept, you basically tap into the telephone network and place calls to numbers supported by the network. I was trying to find a simple label to hang on […]

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