Dave Morin

If you haven’t checked out Al Gore’s new movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” you should. The movie chronicles Gore’s lifelong persuit of pushing the public’s needle of knowledge on global warming. It’ll make you want to buy a hybrid tomorrow, then tell all of your friends to see the movie as well..no matter what side of the line you’re on.

The movie is brilliant, his content is brilliant, and his presentation is even more brilliant. AND, it was all done using Apple’s incredible presentation software Keynote.

Check out this great article on the how and why behing it:

Key to “An Inconvenient Truth”

I’d like to present case-in-point to HP’s ridiculousness in Nate Johnson’s last blog post:

http://www.mog.com/beta

Click “Check out TEAM MOG” and witness fantastic worldwide collaboration.

Welcome to my generation, business world, get with program…or we’ll fire YOU (and your company).

Just rolled into Phoenix for the weekend. Work meeting tomorrow, at Arizona State University.

After checking into my hotel this afternoon, I attempted to log on to the wireless network. No dice. Checked the strength of the network with MacStumbler to find a level of around 6 (out of 100).

So, on my way out to find a better connection, I asked the guest services attendant what the story with their wireless is.

“Oh! Just go down to the middle of the floor where the elevators are. You can get it to work there. Then, go back to your room. It’ll follow you.”

Brilliant.

Destination Hotels positions this hotel as:

“…the ideal blend of business, recreation and elegance…”

Which means, that it’s perfectly suited for a business traveler. But, they’ve decided to skimp on the most important thing for every single business traveler: wireless internet. Thus, causing me to search for the best coffee shop in town to get my work done.

Not cool.

And, all they needed to do was spend maybe an extra $1000 to install ten more wireless routers at the end of each hallway on all 5 floors.

I’ll keep my business at Starwood.

On a brighter note, the weather in Tempe is fantastic. And, Arizona State University must be a kickin’ place to go to school with weather of this caliber year round.

Written from: Bamboo Club Asian Bistro Rooftop Deck - Tempe, Arizona

City of Cupertino City Council Meeting

Cheers to you, Steve

I’m having an email conversation with my accountant today. And, he says to me:

I would rather have the information mailed, since it is much easier to read.

I use a fax machine for two things, ever. Taxes (W2 forms and the like) and contracts.

Fax is dead. Why are we still using it?

Instead, I got out my digital camera that I happened to have with me this trip, and took pictures of the documents. Put them on the web in a secure folder, and shot him the links. Easy as that.