Archives » January 2008

  • “Scotsman For A Night, Yeah?”

    So said the guy renting me the kilt.
    As mentioned, I’ve been in Edinburgh, Scotland for the week, thanks to Mike Clouser over at the Edinburgh-Stanford Link. It’s really been a blast. I gave three separate talks (one on market research, one on economics and business models and one on the history of Techdirt) [...]

    Saturday 26th January 2008 - 6:13:59 AM | Comments (3)

  • TVs With Interactive DOS Applications?

    So my hotel room in Edinburgh is tiny, but decent enough. I realized that it was missing things I’ve come to expect in a hotel room, such as an alarm clock, but was a bit surprised to see a note saying that I could schedule a wakeup call through the television. I’m fairly [...]

    Wednesday 23rd January 2008 - 3:33:45 PM | Comment

  • This Might Have Convinced Me To Clean My Room As A Kid

    Man. Wasn’t expecting this when I opened my BoingBoing feed today:

    There are a ton of little hidden ska jokes in both the song and the video. Someone had a lot of fun creating that. As a sidenote, in my dealings with him, at least, Alex was one of the nicest, coolest people [...]

    Monday 21st January 2008 - 2:03:01 PM | Comment