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Tesla the Elf

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Amy and I had a baby daughter on Friday, December 7, 2007: Tesla Jane Muller. She’s adorable.

I knew Flora when she was an unemployed dot com dropout.
Back in 2001 she was really struggling. Couldn’t figure out what she wanted to do next, whether it was another tech job or something she hadn’t thought of. You could tell she was something special, that the wheels were spinning in her head. But it […]

Quick note: I’m now blogging about the philosophy and process of building my new company and product from Demand Satisfaction. Swing on by sometime!

I prefer to avoid new years resolutions–for me, they’re too tactical a response to the turning of the calendar. I prefer to select a unifying theme to guide me through the tumult of daily life. A strategic north star, a melodic refrain, a mantra. I limit it to one word, and make sure it is […]

Amy has shamed me into blogging again with this latest 5 things meme. Perhaps I’ll even write a post about why I vanished from my blog as suddenly and inexplicably as the Anasazis vanished from their cliff dwellings. But first, by the rules of the meme, I have to list five things people don’t know […]

Isn’t it about time for another party? It’s been six months since the last one, after all.
This one is a Hoedown. Knowing us, we’ll take it way too far.
Better not miss it. RSVP now.

Angela Gunn from USA Today’s Techspace blog had an exchange after she published her post about Valleyschwag. She started:
I remember some of the stuff that rolled through the offices of the
publication I was at during the first boom, and there was seriously a
point where the swag levels just made me nervous — we furnished an
entire […]

Dan Fost of the SF Chronicle starts off his article, Web 2.0 has a local address, with Rubyred’s cereal bar. Here are some of the juicy bits:
The unofficial meal of the Internet comeback is a bowl of Kellogg’s Crispix and some fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice - served with pleasure at the Monday morning “cereal […]

Congratulations to our friend and office-mate, Maggie Mason, who just re-launched her famous blog, Mighty Girl with a fresh, peppy design and new functionality. I’m honored to have worked with her in putting it together.
She’s a sharp girl, that Maggie.

How annoying are those web form Turing tests* that make you copy illegible characters into a field to prove that you’re an actual human. There’s a new solution: kitties.
The KittenAuth Test prompts users to distinguish between the feline cute and various other shades of cute (e.g. owls, donkeys, hamsters, etc.). Besides being fun, it […]