Alec Saunders SquawkBox

Enough with the gay marriage debate already! is a good rant.  I think my favorite line in the whole thing is this one.

I am sick and tired of hearing people, mostly religious nuts, waxing on about "the family" and how vitally important it is that a wedding only involve someone with a penis and another with a vagina.

Been off subscribing to all the RSS feeds at Corante!  Yee Haa!  Nice they’ve finally done this.  But… the Moore’s Lore feed has a busted RSS file.  Radio won’t take it. Hope someone there is reading this…

Very good. 

Do Startups Change Consumer Behavior?. I had lunch with a very successful technology investor friend of mine and he made a very interesting comment. He pointed out that he no longer hears about startup companies trying to "change consumer behavior" anymore. Smart companies that he… [Charles Hudson's Weblog]

It’s hugely hard to change consumer behaviour, even when you have buckets of money to spend on making that happen.  Microsoft or Intel can pour a few hundred million dollars into making a market, but a startup can’t.  A startup has to ride a market wave, not try to make the market.

Ugh!

Nowhere near as smooth as last year.  The winter before we had it closed by Purewater, and opened by Purewater.  Purewater guarantees the water will be clear if they do the work.  It was perfect. 

Last winter it was done by Mermaid, the people who installed our pool.  Six of the stoppers came loose over the winter (we’re praying that it was after the freeze, otherwise we’ll be digging up the patio to replace cracked lines.  And the bottom of the pool is a green, goopy, mess.  I’ve got a week of cleanup ahead of me.

Back to Purewater next year.