Aye, if ye accept dem terms, sign and return a copy o’ this agreement t’ me at the address at the bottom o’ this agreement. Aye.

Try It Here

Several months ago my colleague Matt talked up the Lego Star Wars game that his kids had received for Christmas. Not being overly into video games I listened polietely and said… ‘very cool’. Fast forward to the previous Sunday at which time I discovered the Indiana Jones Flash Lego Game and since find myself using this amazingly fun game as another excuse to buy a Wii. For many of you out there video game systems are probably a way of life but my parents chose to buy me a Tandy 1000TL instead of a NES back in the 80’s. This meant I spent my days writing games in GW-BASIC instead of playing them. I suppose I have to credit my career in technology to my parents because of that move but I think much of my eagerness to buy the Wii comes from the fact that I’ve never owned a console game system. In the meantime hop on over to Lego.com and play this fun game.

Moonlight Sonata (also known as the theme song for the 1985 PC game Thexder)

Sonata No. 7 in D Major, Op. 10 No. 3

Enjoy!

I use Highrise in both of my startups companies and have found it to be a great way to communicate sales and biz dev progress to my 10 person teams. Simple, quick, and relatively painless. I do use Salesforce when I need to create multi-step email campaigns or am selling products with a $5k-10k price tag. In an organization where you have more than 30-40 transactions a month you will probably NEED something like a SF for invoice and product reporting.

And that brings us to Sugar, a product that I implemented back in ‘04 at a 20 person software company. In fact, I know several of the Sugar team members and had several products featured in their product exchange. I probably wouldn’t recommend Sugar these days because the price point between SF and Sugar has shrunk quite a bit and the manpower to maintain the open-source version is very costly.

Pricing (last I checked):
Highrise: $50/mo <=15 users
Salesforce: $100/mo <=5 users
Sugar: Free -> $40/mo/user

I’ve been using http://kuler.adobe.com/ to create website color schemes for months now. It’s a simple, free, easy-to-use tool that finds analogous, monochromatic, triad, complementary, and compound colors that look great together. Give it a try

Through a network of partners Kiva screens loan recipients and provides a transparent view of the loan status to all of the parties involved.

Kiva very clearly lays out the risks involved with lending in this manner even though the amounts are relatively small; under $5,000. In most cases the average lender only contributes one-two hundred dollars and can monitor the progress of the investment via a personal online portfolio.

Furthermore, the folks at Kiva have done an excellent job of keeping the site design simple and accessible to many different audiences. If you’re thinking of giving to a charitable cause I HIGHLY recommend Kiva.

Problem:
I wear button down dress shirts every day but don’t like the look of a t-shirt collar underneath.

The options:

1. Constantly fight armpit stains

2. Buy tons of these AWESOME v-neck shirts from American Apparel

These great shirts let you look cool without worrying about sweat stains.

Thank you American Apparel!