http://www.bradbaldwin.com Random thoughts screaming for release from within Brad Baldwin's head Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:08:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My brother Scott Baldwin captured this video on a trip to my Grandfather Baldwin's home a couple of years before his death. While I love to hear these stories and view my Grandpa and Grandma, I still remember a much more vibrant, young, and energetic version of the same man ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/07/02/grandpas-been-gone-for-four-years/ I had a lot of fun in this year's UTC Golf Tournament at Talon's Cove. I enjoyed getting to know three new guys that I had not met before the event. It was a team effort all the way around. Lee who put up with me as a cart partner ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/07/01/winners-utc-golf-event/ Anyone else tired of this Twitter Error? Is this a Twitter API issue or a Twitterific issue? Regardless, I'm just wishing that the insanity with uptime would stop. "There was a "gateway timeout - HTTP 503 response" error while communicating with Twitter. This is a problem with their server, so contact ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/06/27/twitter-error-gateway-timeout-http-503-response/ Tom Foremski is a smart guy with keen insight into the happenings of Silicon Valley. I interacted with him on a few occasions through PodTech.net and at the Bloghaus at CES. Foremski's post today is targeted at marketing professionals. The Question: "Think about two equally educated candidates with ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/06/17/foremski-suggests-that-cmos-need-social-footprints/ My sister Jodi sent me this card for my birthday this year. Funny. I used to get the cards telling me to have a "sexy" or "manly" birthday. Now I guess I've reached the age for diaper cards. Thanks Jodi. Thanks to all who said hello on by snail mail, Twitter, Facebook, ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/06/03/im-getting-old/ Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Here's an Apple iMac vs. typical Dell desktop computer. I had some friends over the other day. He was amazed at the lack of cabling at my iMac in the family room. I actually "added" a network cable because I wanted full-speed, 100 ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/06/02/design-is-so-underrated-in-tech/ Seeing Samsung's next-generation 256 GB SSD makes my mind contemplate the mobile devices just over the horizon. A 1.8 inch solid state drives with the capacity that was in servers not all that long ago. But the performance is perhaps more impressive: sequential data reads at 200MB per second, and ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/05/26/storage-to-match-small-form-factor-mobile-devices/ I'm amazed at Twitter. In fact Twitter may be the biggest case study in the strength of a digital community. Despite its regular outages that would have crushed any other Web business (1.0 or 2.0), I come back and everyone else I know is still is there too. We complain. We ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/05/22/the-power-of-community/ The WSJ has an interesting article today that shows the USA falling further and further behind the rest of the world in broadband speeds. The U.S. has fallen behind in speed, too. In the same study, conducted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan think tank, the ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/05/19/usa-falling-behind-in-broadband-speed/ While this is old news at this point, I thought I'd reference the list of vSpring v100 members for 2008 as it's now available on the vSpring Capital site. I'm looking forward to catching up with members and friends at the v|100 luncheon May 28, 2008. I just counted and realized ... http://www.bradbaldwin.com/2008/05/15/vspring-v100-class-of-2008-member/