This weekend, my wife Anette and I welcomed Dillon Jacob Spoon – all 7.5 pounds and 20.5 inches of him. We thank everyone for the well wishes and notes… we were truly overwhelmed by everyone’s …

Goodbye Dotster. Hello Media Temple (mt).

Over the last few weeks, you may have noticed slowness (to put it lightly) on this blog. It was being hosted on Dotster with a shared server (that they repeated …

I am excited to announce that, starting Monday, I will be joining Polaris Venture Partners and will work out of the Dog Patch Lab on Pier 38. Over the last few years, I have had …

When I first started this blog, it was on a whim and I built it over a weekend on a hosted version of WordPress. The theme I implemented and hacked-together worked well but didn’t scale …

This Saturday, I will compete in the famed Alcatraz swim race for the seventh time and will joined by last year’s winner and co-founder of InGameNow, Steuart Martens, and Widgetbox CEO Will Price. We will …

Over this July 4th weekend – where we vacationed in Cape Cod with my family – Anette and I got engaged!
We actually debated whether or not I should post the announcement and picture on this …

Warning: as the title suggests, this is not a tech-related blog post… and at the risk of upsetting readers, I do that from time to time!
Today, longtime friend Steuart Martens and I competed in the …

When my dog Manny was diagnosed with Legg-Perthes Disease last year, there was little information available on the web about the disease, it’s impact and the necessary surgery. So I documented the entire process (both …

Yesterday, we took an unbelievable snowmobile tour in Vail. I had never snowmobiled before – so we decided to take a 4 hour tour with Nova Guides (one of the big guide companies in Vail …

True story and a certain sign that
1) Something is wrong
2) You spend far too much time on the internet
3) You spend far too much time working on the internet
I was told that, in my …

I still believe there is a ton of money to be made by bringing Dunkin Donuts out to California (there are enough east coast transplants in LA, San Jose and San Francisco)… but until someone …

When the Burger King “The King” got wildly popular last Halloween and, while moving some stuff around the house today, I came by the mask and found out what the real Whopper Freak out is.
(By …