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I don’t write often about sports, even though I am a fan of the Cleveland teams (baseball, football, basketball in that order). Fred Wilson wrote a post about LeBron James leaving the Cavs and I responded. It is hard for people not raised with the Cleveland sports mentality to understand. So I wanted to include [...]

Many major movie studios are restricting movies from being rented (via Redbox or Netflix or other means) during the first 28 days after release. The belief is that the studios will sell more movies. This is stupid. But before I get into why it is stupid, let me explain my own movie set up. First, [...]

Various observations from my week at Apple’s developer conference (WWDC): There were a few smokers at the conference and they would all go out on the patio on the third floor to smoke. None of them seemed to speak native English. Amazing how many people came in from outside the US for this. I met [...]

I had this dream* last night that I was working on powerOne software calculator for iPhone at some kind of incubator for iPhone development. It was a huge space — like a convention hall — and had all kinds of people there from small companies to big ones. Apple folks were floating around the building. [...]

UPDATE: I’m completely wrong. I had a friend who had worked in the industry straighten me out. It turns out “voluntary” is a misnomer. It’s only voluntary because the government says recall or we’ll make you and the “voluntary” part is for PR purposes. What a shame. What my friend said to me: You’re giving [...]