http://leathern.com Connecting people through ideas, technology and serendipity... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:34:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Amidst the great coverage of the Beijing Olympics on TV, I came across this article from the New Zealand Railways Magazine from 1936 that mentions my grandfather (a mile runner for the South African national team), I've bolded a few bits: What is the predominant personal factor about the champion athlete? ... http://leathern.com/2008/08/12/mixing-with-international-athletes/ I really enjoyed my running on Saturday -- was just a regular training/long run but decided to make it 13.2 miles, just enough to cover a half-marathon distance. I was aiming to run it at my marathon target pace of under 4 hrs (thus 2 hrs for the half) which ... http://leathern.com/2008/08/11/fun-running-this-weekend/ Not a big surprise, really -- Root shuts down its lead generation exchange. At one point there were a lot of really awesome, capable people there. http://leathern.com/2008/08/11/root-exchange-shuts-down/ Finally- not only can I get wifi access at Peet's Coffee now, but it's actually free - you get a code from the register for 2 hours of free access. Neat stuff. Yet another reason to go to Peet's (where available of course) instead of Starbucks... http://leathern.com/2008/07/30/free-wi-fi-access-at-peets/ Wow, planning a trip to Denver and checking an Avis corporate discount rate vs. Hotwire, $100 more for 4 days! We ended up getting Avis through the Hotwire process -- unreal! Sometimes I really wonder about this travel stuff... car rentals seem very expensive this summer. http://leathern.com/2008/07/24/hotwire-car-rental/ No wonder things are not going well at Yahoo! I just experienced a Yahoo! outage across multiple business unit sites, both consumer and business-focused -- at least 10 minutes. I also checked via my Blackberry so it wasn't just my ISP or computer... Ouch. DDos? http://leathern.com/2008/07/24/yahoo-outage/ I have been trying to get to Yahoo.com but have been getting a network timeout... server taking too long to respond. Ouch, as if Yahoo! didn't have enough problems... what's going on? http://leathern.com/2008/07/16/yahoocom-down/ Thought this was an interesting post from LeadCritic about exclusive leads. Of course, I am not spending all my time thinking about lead generation topics, but from time to time I do like to revisit these fun things. I don't have much time to blog these days - things are very ... http://leathern.com/2008/07/16/lead-generation-exclusive-leads/ Sprint truly sucks. Now for some reason my bill suddenly went from $75 or so to about $186. Wow, that's kind of nuts considering at the same time my usage went DOWN to close to zero since I'm actually now using Blackberry service from AT&T. The most amazing part is ... http://leathern.com/2008/05/04/sprint-sucks/ I heard news from someone today that LinkedIn is about to announce that it is being acquired... but I have been unable to find any information out from a source closer to the company currently. I've asked a few people who work there now, but nothing all around. So I ... http://leathern.com/2008/05/04/linkedin-acquisition-rumors-again/ Just got back from 2 1/2 weeks in Fiji. Wow. What amazing, beautiful people we met there - the Fijian people are truly something special! Internet service was pretty good where we were for the most part - so the email deluge isn't too bad; though there are a bunch of ... http://leathern.com/2008/04/02/the-beauty-of-fiji/ I am not drinking a lot of coffee, funnily enough - but I've happened to go to three Peet's Coffee's today. I stopped off at the one in San Mateo (next to Whole Foods), then happened to go to the one on University Ave in Palo Alto to use the ... http://leathern.com/2008/02/27/threepeet-day/ comScore and Sears came in for a bit of criticism for this "community installation" of the comScore panel tool - by most reports it seems pretty deceptive. comScore has built an amazing business off of offering one thing (web accelerator software in the early days) and then of course using ... http://leathern.com/2008/02/03/comscore-gets-a-start-on-a-few-more-terabytes-of-consumer-data/ More creative misspelling perhaps? Check out the Techcrunch ad for "Pansonsonic HDTVs". http://leathern.com/2008/01/20/yo-techcrunch-whats-up-with-pansonsonic/ http://leathern.com/2008/01/18/chitika-e-mini-malls/ I am starting a new company with a cofounder, and will thus be going dark on this blog for a while, mostly because I just have so much less time. Look for me to start a new company blog soon though; I'll post news of that here when it's ready. ... http://leathern.com/2008/01/06/new-company-less-time-to-post-going-dark-for-a-while/ If closed is the new open, then I guess I can see that small is the new big. http://leathern.com/2008/01/04/small-is-the-new-big-closed-is-the-new-open/ I ran my first timed track mile on the 23rd. It was fun: not ever having run a timed mile before on the track and of course not yet being in great shape, I ran out a bit too quickly doing the first lap in 1:20. Anyway, I got quite ... http://leathern.com/2007/12/27/first-mile-run-long-way-to-go/ My brother-in-law gave my wife and I a Nintendo Wii for Christmas yesterday! Totally unexpected; he got it a while ago by standing in line at Target at 6am in Phoenix, AZ to be the 74th out of 125 people that got one of them apparently. It's a very fun ... http://leathern.com/2007/12/27/got-a-nintendo-wii-for-christmas/ I have a couple of domain names that I am open to selling: analystblog.com wherewire.com Analystblog gets about 400 or so uniques per month, and wherewire.com sees over 7000 according to the records I have from Sedo.com -- would appear to have a bit of value for someone looking for an interesting domain. ... http://leathern.com/2007/12/21/domain-names-for-sale-analystblogcom-and-wherewirecom/