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FWIW, I like the bookshelf metaphor, more humane and enjoyable and still easy enough to browse.

beside that, I think it's a great idea. I read to my 4 year old son every night at bedtime, and I will definitely give astorybeforebed.com a try next time I'm on a business trip.

I also didn't find any information on pricing.

There's a note on "you can record and preview before paying", but I wouldn't want to go through the trouble of recording and figure out at the last minute that the thing is way beyond my budget.

[edit: found the pricing on rollover, it's slow enough that it didn't show up the first time I clicked around. I would include it also on the book page]

I had the same reaction as others here.

Liked the design a lot, browsed through the books, opened one and got confused about what "recording" was supposed to mean. Flipped through the end of the book, and went to the FAQ, got even more confused by the webcam requirement. Then went back to the homepage and noticed the video. Played it and finally understood what the site is for.

Your "welcome" message should be changed to clearly state that you here to do a video recording of a bedtime story for a child when you're away.

Honestly, you don't sound that reasonable. EPA, NYC, HSS are not "The Government", they are different entities with different roles and goals. Perhaps someone lied about the air at ground zero (I don't know the facts, is that even proven?), but how is that related to the decisions made by the HSS? You're claiming that there's a pattern, but it doesn't make any sense. The US government lied about the Tonkin incident, therefore the Nasa never landed on the moon?

Here's my 2c. Feels like information overload. If I click on 'Books to read' on the homepage, I'm expecting a list of books to read. Here's what I get:

* Picture of Phil with some unrelated stats.

* List of karts created by Phil, with the option to 'watch them all' (is that ever useful?)

* The list of books to read. Each entry has 8+ possible actions. The only useful visible info about each book is its title and a comment.

* Another unrelated list of 'most watched karts'.

* list of karts watched by Phil.

http://www.kartme.com/user/115/karts/47

I'm not sure new visitors would stay long enough to understand that page.

I would suggest you decide where the focus should be for each page and remove everything that is a distraction.

For instance,

* remove Phil's data from the left column (belongs to a profile page)

* remove the redundant title "Phil's Kart Books to read" from each entry in the list.

* remove or tone down the right column.

* show a summary extract for each book, show the price and option to track price (or automatically track price when 'karting')

* strip down possible actions for each entry to 3 or 4.

I still remember having to look into a French-English dictionary to find the right word for 'spacesuit'...

Old games are like legos, less sophistication = more imagination.

a linux distribution inspired by Chrome OS, that's all...

While I've used exotic names before, I prefer descriptive names, like web1, web2, db1, dev. etc..

When I'm ready to reboot a machine or drop a table, I like to see 'DEV' on the hostname and not 'DB1'...

Agree with others, start with showing off a great portfolio.

The second most important point in my opinion is reliability.

Once you get your first client, make sure to touch base regularly, keep them informed of the process and delays, ask questions and request feedback. If you do this (which really, is nothing but being professional) then you'll have an edge over most freelance graphic designers (in my own limited, but sad experience :)

I mus ask, what was the learning experience? I never played UO, but it sounds like there's no consequences for "immoral" actions, so while it might be fun to turn against your savior, it hardly applies to any real-life experience (hopefully :-).

If most have started multiple firms, then they didn't start being entrepreneur at 43. So is it age, or simply repeated experiences that really matter?

The problem is that the support channel is a black hole. There's no way of knowing where your request is in the queue. Has it been reviewed? dismissed? do you need to be more patient? should you submit it again?

What about starting with giving out the average response time and queue length when submitting a request? That'd be a good first step...

while he's using regex, it's hardly a regex-based solution. He's just striping out characters and parenthesis pairs

Perhaps I don't completely understand your reasoning, but I'd side with your wife. You're kidding yourself (or is it killing?!).

Why would your geographic location or the work habit of random strangers change who you are? What about taking some time off your bootstrapping startup until you can get on a healthier footing?

"Tel Aviv search for mattress containing $1M life savings":

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/10/israel.mattress.mo...

I think the author addresses that point. You can't fix that bug yourself because the code needs to be signed by Mozilla (security layer).

Shaun marketed Mint that way (same price point if I remember). It probably worked well enough for him to continue with that model.

I'm sure he also enjoys sleeping without having to worry about server downtime :-)

Bought the iphone version a week ago, to kill some time on a long plane trip. I knew the game by reputation but never played it. I wasn't disappointed. The graphics are a bit dated but the game looks fun and challenging (haven't got very far yet)

Myst on the iTunes store: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftwa...

What if they have a fast way to get the intersect between followers of 2 different users? In this case, if a message is a @reply they could ignore the follower lists of each users and use the intersect list only (which can be cached). Supporting the 'get all replies' option means that they also need to consider the full follower lists and then deduplicate. .. just guessing here

ah! According to the Wikipedia page, the BASIC interpreter was written from scratch and quite rapidly. It was apparently much faster than the contemporary MS Basic. Wouldn't be surprising if it was buggy, although my dad did a lot of programming on it and without to much trouble as far I remember.

My dad's first computer was a DAI. So rare that I never heard anyone else mention it. It still looks good though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DAI_Personal_Computer.jpg

I don't see how that can even work. The site is in Swedish and they only provide a 'Plusgiro' number, which I think is insufficient for international money transfer.

Plus the bank can close or suspend the account whenever they want.

oh, and did anyone actually check that it's not a scam?

yeah, I really doubt it's true. Reparations were paid mainly in machinery and plants and there was a serious attempt at deindustrializing Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_reparations#Europe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

EVault is a backup appliance, it has a software agent running on your server and a dedicated web interface to manage backups. Probably overkill if you just need snapshots.

We use their iSCSI storage space for that, which is about 75c/GB (free server-to-server bandwidth). Their cloud storage appears to be even cheaper 25c/Gb

Disclaimer: I'm based in Bloomington, IN and met the sproutbox founders a few times.

In the first dotcom crash, I worked for an incubator that had a similar approach: providing talents and services to 'idea people' while running our own project. It was a complete failure and closed in less than a year. Our own project failed to bring any revenue, and the other projects we started lacked any sort of commitment from the 'idea people'. We also had a short runway and an oversized team which prevented us from adapting to changing circumstances.

There are a couple things that makes me much more optimistic about Sproutbox chances. First, their team is much more talented that ours ever was. They could (and did) just build their own apps and be very successful.

Secondly, they focus on revenue-generating businesses. They may not start the next twitter or youtube, but that makes them much more likely to be around long enough to get your idea off to a good start.

I see how it can be funny, but the Disney homepage has some music playing, which kinda gives away that you're not doing anything work-related.

a couple wording suggestions:

"Offensive Material: Link contains offensive content such as references to religion, abortion, 911, and the devil."

"Link MAY contain", and 911 should be 9/11 (unless you're referring to the US emergency number)

err.. the "I'm at work" button should not redirect you to Disney.com. try Google instead. Otherwise, great idea.

[added link: http://isnsfw.com/yLyQTM]

is that the full text? I didn't see anything about angels turning devils.