My friend Chris persuaded me to sign up for tribe.net, an online community/job networking website. It’s like 1999 all over again, and the web still sucks. Back then, PlanetAll promised to help you manage your contacts so you’d never need to update your address book every again; you just “linked” to someone’s PlanetAll account and […]
Author: mradwin
Recovering domain names from squatters
Next week’s Perkins Coie Computer/Internet Law Roundtable is entitled “STALKING THE WILY DOMAIN SQUATTER: Lessons from Years of Recovering Domain Names.” David Steele will discuss how to recover infringing domain names and protect trademarks and trade names from cybersquatters using examples and techniques drawn from his extensive experience with domain name and trademark issues.
Happy 41st, Wesley!
Wesley Snipes is 41 years old today. Dude, when are you gonna make a good movie again? I’m still worried about you.
US Airways drops Kosher meals
US Airways has stopped serving Kosher meals in-flight. No veggie meals, either. Instead of alienating the Jewish community (hey, we’re probably a full 2% of their customer base!) maybe they should go with the Southwest model and stop serving in-flight meals altogether. [via the yada, yada, yada blog]
Field Day by Shere
I was browsing through my CD collection this morning to find a few more albums to rip to my iPod and I came across Field Day, a funky acoustic pop album I hadn’t listened to in a while. It’s good. And now that it’s on my iPod, I’ll probably listen to it more. I really […]
I found the cure for hope
Avital laughed at my coffee mug yesterday at breakfast. Although familiar with the genre of “inspirational posters” from the SkyMall catalog, she had never come across the parodies of them. Obviously she had never seen Derek‘s cube. Back in 1999 when Yahoo! was still a relatively small company, we did a deal with Despair, Inc. […]
Free Ice Cream Today
Cold Stone Creamery is offering free ice cream today between 5-8pm to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. I’m not quite sure how giving away free ice cream is going to bring in any income for the charity, but I’ll be happy to do my part. 
American Airlines allows cell phones during taxi-in
A couple of weeks ago, American Airlines began allowing the use of cell phones during taxi-in (after landing but before reaching the gate). It’s a very smart move (and one that will be sure to make John Dvorak happy). As a business traveller for the past 3 years, it’s always driven me crazy that the […]
The Cathedral, The Bazaar, and Apache
A couple of weeks ago I read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and The Bazaar, a collection of essays about Open Source software. Raymond writes quite well for a techie (either that or he has a superb editor), and the book is coherent. I didn’t agree with most of the book, but I think it’s important […]
More headhunter email
I got pinged by a headhunter again today. This happened last month for the first time in a couple of years, but I guess the job market is heating up again. Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:48:51 -0400 From: Krista B… <krista@…> To: Michael Radwin <michael@…> Subject: Confidential to Michael Radwin Dear Michael: I apologize […]