As daylight leaks out of the sky at 4:30pm, and temperatures approach freezing, I need this picture more than ever:

The Beach

Munjal (Riya CEO) has revived his old series of posts regarding the early days of Riya. The new additions to the series reflect the transition from being a photo sharing site to becoming a visual search engine. It is must read material for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.
A choice quote describing a speech by [...]

I miss mechanical feedback on the recent slew of “cutting-edge” consumer electronics (CE) devices I have used. CE designers recently have been using flat buttons with pressure actuators (non-mechanical) instead of mechanical feedback buttons because they are sleeker or sexier, but, for me, they’re just less usable.
For example, I want a volume dial on my [...]

When Read/Write Web reported on the recent death of Pluck, Richard MacManus stated quite bluntly in the title: “RSS Readers a Dead Market Now.” Richard MacManus elaborated on this point in the body:
I’m afraid to say that consumer RSS Readers are rapidly becoming commodities and will soon be next to worthless - the real [...]

This blog is best blog I’ve seen in awhile The Painting Journalist by Ashley Cecil. It’s like Hugh, but better!
A snippet from Ashley’s about page:
Welcome to the marriage of painting and social activism. I’ve been creating art ever since discovering that my mom’s Chanel lipstick made a great oil pastel. Through formal art education [...]

During all my recent Firefox drama, I installed lots of new extensions. I installed half of the recommended extensions (about 10 in total) and a select few others. One of the extensions I installed was Ad Block Plus, which makes some interesting choices in regards to ad-blocking.
But first, my background in the subject. [...]

With heavy disappointment and lots of reservations, I have rolled back to Firefox 1.5.0.7, the last stable release prior to Firefox 2. I still stand by my original review about the new FF 2 feature set, but I have to add the following update.
FF 2 crashed on me about once every two hours on [...]

I rolled my own search yesterday with the “Create Your Own Search Engine” feature at Google Coop. I dumped my OPML (and a few other select sites I follow that don’t have feeds) into Google Coop and now I have a search engine custom tailored to return results from the sites I follow regularly. [...]

I am attending a fundraising event for the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) tonight. It’s being held at the Rubin Museum, which is an interesting choice of venue. I’m looking forward to a brief museum tour. The honorees include:

Joseph and Shirley Wershba - Veteran journalists at CBS News
Rick Piltz - Founder and [...]