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About a month ago, I traded in my Jetta for a Subaru B9 Tribeca. There was a good promotion going on at the time, which meant that the car is financed through Chase as opposed to the bank I ordinarily deal with for car loans. Two weeks ago I received the paperwork to set up…

Chicago Cubs : News : Garage sale on Saturday Own a piece of Wrigley this Saturday… (tags: Cubs Wrigley) OnlyOnce: Counter Cliche: I Know When I See One, Too Matt Blumberg at ReturnPath gives a great list of traits that make a great VC. (tags: entrepreneurship VC business strategy) BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Proposal…

Will’s post about a bad TV from December, 2004, now has 169 comments. All of them from disgruntled Phillips TV owners. Lately the comments are coming in 1-2 per day.

One of the fun things we did in the Dean campaign was introduce transparency in fundraising; as people saw what the goal was (and how close we were to the goal), it had a wonderful effect in encouraging further contributions. I had no idea that there was an open source Drupal plugin written by my…

Final results: 4766 to 2065.

This is classic. We are currently debating what rules govern the agenda, and the candidates don’t even know whether they can speak before the vote. More in the comments.

MySpace for the Office Wow. Kleiner Perkins led a $17m round for Visible Path, who’s pitching corporate social networking. I recall making a similar pitch about two and a half years ago… (tags: social networks visible path vc) TinyScreenfuls.com » Blog Archive » How to delight your users (or: FeedBurner support rocks!) Thanks for the…

Tonight ought to be entertaining, it’s the county convention and it’s a contested race for county chair. As I mentioned last week, I’m backing Gayl Ferraro in her reelection effort. Her opponent, Doug Cole, doesn’t strike me as the guy we need in charge of the county party: his well-publicized antagonism of the Duckworth campaign,…

Barron’s: TiVo ripe for buyout? TiVo is about to get bought? This seems to crop up every few months… and so far, they’ve done just fine on their own. I don’t see Google being a good match – but I think Apple would be darn near perfect. More on that later. (tags: TiVo Apple acquisition)…

Figured out last night that today is officially my one year anniversary at FeedBurner. Hard to believe it’s just been a year — we’ve grown from a handful of employees (I was # 6 or 7) to 25 (with a little room left — see our jobs page for more!). We managed around 20,000 feeds…