This looks to be an experiental week. Bonnie Raitt tonight. Then, a 2-days guys golf trip to Bajamar. Thursday, KD and I leave for white water rafting in West Virginia. Getting a little work done among all this will be tough.
OK, maybe irrational optimism isn't dead in the tech world after all. $7.5M to build this application? Call me shortsighted, but this doesn't seem like a sustainable business. A good idea, yes, but not a basis for a long term company.
Besides, Shazam will undoubtedly run afoul of the RIAA Nazis and be punished for their good idea.
Tomorrow's the autumnal equinox (maybe). If I'm reading the primer on universal time correctly, the equinox will actually be on the 23rd this year in my time zone. Either way, it's downhill from here for a few months.
Saturday morning is so fine. The quiet, some coffee, surveying the web world, and once in a while some Krispy Kremes. I wonder, does the good vibe of quiet reading and writing offset the damage done by the KKs?
For a long time, working in the tech world was like the old Joe Namath saying: "I can't wait for tomorrow, 'cause I get better looking every day." (Joe has a home page, imagine that.) It caused many of us, and many entire corporations, to become irrational optimists. I for one agree with the sentiment in this Reuters article that it's time to stop believing that recovery is 6 months away. We'll probably never see the go-go 90's again, at least not in this lifetime. We need to change our expectations for and about tech companies.
From my friend Matt, both picture and story: some decidedly 
