Entries by Title

• Timeplots leads to a personal sporting milestone
• In which I eat the wrong type of hot pepper
• Burning Ben II
• Company retreat-July 2007
• Family history enshrined on a piece of wood
• Cucumbers and youth
• Aristotle's misleading ad
• 10th Anniversary Party for NGP and Dan Bern
• The Periodic Table of the Elements: exercising the old brain
• A cutting-edge solution to the beard-growing problem
• NGP celebrates what really matters
• A daytrip to James Madison's House
• My perspective on vegetarianism
• Sleep
• Company Retreat-July 2006
• You can call me Al
• Personal Democracy Conference 2006
• Building things -- concrete or otherwise
• The perils of thinking your kid is just like you
• Reflections on a Montessori pre-school weaving project
• Conference room table tennis at NGP, comfort sports
• Tug of war: kids beating adults
• Turning forty
• Fourth grade in Canterbury, England
• Family trips from Boulder to Vermont, and back
• This vehicle is parked illegally
• Intelligent design: how to talk about it intelligently
• NGP travels to Vermont for three-day retreat
• A passenger for my bicycle
• Completed: a purpleheart, cherry, and maple desk
• I do not like term "homeland security."
• Summer 1984: Computerland of North Denver
• My proof: Apollo was the Roman sun god
• A week in Vermont with family
• Coaching kids soccer: memories and observations
• Sixth grade after school basketball, an injustice, and competition
• Cornell vs. Yale, college choice, and a road not taken
• Soccer: old, but not yet ready for retirement
• How I met my wife, happy birthday, and real romance
• Clay figures and friendship
• Gardening, small motors, and useful neighbors
• Hackers, the hacker ethic, and beach reading
• The cathedral and the bazaar: more on open source
• Coming of Age in Cyberspace
• Too many books; trying to put order to them
• Learning about open source: Linus Torvalds
• Saw a great t-shirt for programmers
• Read the poet Mary Oliver
• See the awesome 1984 Talking Heads movie Stop Making Sense
• Gun show and Margaret Cho
• One model of money management
• Stop naming your daughters Ella!
• Inside Intuit: learning from other companies
• Paranoia and navigating strategic inflection points
• British TV series "The Office": watch it
• Good and bad ways of spending money
• On owning a vehicle: postpone if possible
• Everything happens for a reason
• Stabenow and Levin: the Michigan Senate delegation rocks
• Shoji Hamada: A Potter's Way and Work
• Meetup now charging monthly fees
• Robin Hood was a Democrat
• What I will not be writing about online
• Foosball: luxury or necessity?
• Michael Gerber, E-Myth: technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs
• Self-promotion and marketing: black and white -- or color
• Disc Golf: A sport I love and hope you won't
• NGP Milestone: Incorporation, January 1997
• High School Intern for Congressman Tim Wirth, 1984
• Blue Ocean Strategy or Hardball: Thinking about Competition
• "Buckaroo Banzai": “Why is there a watermelon there?”
• "The Castle": Darryl versus Goliath
• Clear the field, or contest the primary?
• PoliticsOnline, Elephant Hunters, NGP, and Dave the Sniper
• I love the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• NGP Milestone: DC Democratic Fundraising Firms, 1997.
• NGP Milestone: Hillary Clinton for Senate, end of 1999.
• Too much business -- or too little
• Good eggs and bad eggs
• Doing new things
• On taking vacations; leaving today
• What I learned from Colorado Boys' State, 1983
• Bloggers, journalists, political scientists and political practitioners
• Programming Instructor, Rocky Mountain Computer Camps, 1982-3
• Corporate blogging: thoughts from a company founder
• NGP Software Training in DC today
• Found metal sculpture: Heise Metalwork
• Joe Trippi's 100 dollar revolution, some reservations
• Why life is good; the little things
• Collecting weird things: potato chip bags
• A solution to tax cheating: a national lottery for the IRS
• Fence sense; or doing it yourself
• Partisanship and political technology
• Politics Online Conference this week
• "Forum" at Young Entrepreneur's Organization
• Perspective and the relevance of a old job today
• Potters, the values of craftsmen, and living true to self
• Jimmy Carter, woodworking, and doing what you love
• You never forget your first -- My Apple II computer
• Re-redistricting: spectator sport for partisans
• New Enterprises, INDN's List, Mini-Society and Ticket Scalping
• Canvassing for COPIRG: anthropology and political geography
• A Gary Hart Democrat
• My First Paid Programming Project, 1984
• Data Analysis with Edward Tufte
• Baltimore Trip
• American Politics with David Mayhew
• Campaigns May Wield Redistricting Tools, Revisited
• Computer Science with Alan Perlis
• Exhortations