I used to work at RealNetworks for 5 years but that was a long time ago and I admit that I have no inside information at all. However, I’m fascinated with the current price of RealNetworks given the fundamentals. Let me point out a few things. In the Q1 2007 Earnings report they indicated the [...]
Using a recent image from our trip to the San Juan Islands I’ve been playing with some Photoshop actions to achieve an antique effect. Might make some prints if I can get comfortable with the look.
The larger image can be viewed here.
I saw this agency while down in Santa Monica visiting friends this last weekend. The name and logo have all the humor built right in and it certainly gets your attention. And getting one’s attention these days is reason enough to give credit.
Using Viceroy Hotel as our base of operatios, partied like rock stars throughout LA over Memorial Day thanks to Adam (Flick) and Helene.
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Here’s the definitive list of ways to push big stuff around the net…almost always free.
Sometime back I wrote about some stocks that I liked. One was RealNetworks (RNWK). The other was Adobe (ADBE). At that time (May 2006) RealNetworks was trading around 9. Now its trading at 8.37. Adobe was trading at 27. Now its trading at 43. Equal amounts of both would have yielded a decent return. Fortunately I also bought as much Aquantive (AQNT). Thanks to Microsoft that stock is up 159% since my $24.6 per share purchase.
OK so what three stocks might I recommend for the next year?
Akamai (AKAM) had a great run this year but has since lost some of its amazing gains. Fortunately for those of us in tech, its a reasonable bet to think that edge content delivery still matters. Akamai is a big dog in this space. I’m going to start buying some now at 43.59.
GPS will be pretty mainstream in a few years. Already in cars. Coming in more cars. And cell phones. Garmin has run up a lot in the last few years but I think it will keep going. Garmin Ltd. (GRMN).
OK here’s the one where this tech guy is a bit of a fish out of water. No matter. I’m banking on more good global economy growth from 2007 – 2008. So, I’m going to add a luxury goods maker that owns the sunglass market. See all those sun glass stores everywhere? Ever notice what people spend on a pair of sunglasses these days? Guess who makes MOST of them. Luxottica Group S.p.A. (LUX) Fancy sunglassess are just an assumed part of most people’s wardrobe and most lose or break a few pairs per year. The company has also grown like crazy but it isn’t just going to stop in 12 months.
Oh…and I’m holding onto Adobe for another 12 months.
Each year a big group of us go up to Tom Hughes’ place in the San Juan Islands to party. He’s put so much work into his island bar that we collectively decided to make a website, tees and drink coasters just to push it all completely over the top. His bar is better than all tiki bars in Seattle (and probably most other places). I did the site, Chad Otis did the illustration and Mark Popich did the crests and teeshirts.
After three years I’ve decided to redesign my website. The new site is a simple, white layout and uses flickr for sharing all my images. I need to move thousands of photos from my personal web server to my flickr account and that will take several days. It’s long overdue anyway. This new site pulls the flickr photoset descriptions and image descriptions direct from Yahoo’s server farms using fantastic flickr’s API. Thanks to Joe Tan for the handy plugin that does the heavy lifting. Hopefully all the bugs will be worked out very soon.
I used to hate making forms. Especially if it requires styling or error checking. Check out http://www.wufoo.com.. A friend asked me to build a simple website that allowed users to register and further allowed him to login somewhere and download the registration data as an excel or .csv file.
The form embeds right in your own site and its a snap to set up. Now I want to make a form for everything 
Neat Lambo at the body shop where I’m having some work done on my car. It’s not often you see someone customize one of these things…as if they weren’t over the top as it is. Inside was all custom blue leather. Engine could be seen through the glass…heavily modified.
