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Inception
Albert Wenger – Jul 27, 2010
Saw Inception on Sunday evening and loved it despite (because?) some its glaring flaws. It is a spectacular mashup of some of my favorite movie elements: philosophy, action, heist, stunning imagery and more action- all on a huge IMAX screen [...] Read more
Privacy, Secrecy and Reputation, Oh My!
Albert Wenger – Jul 26, 2010
I love the duality of the Jeffrey Rosen piece about the End of Forgetting in the NY Times Sunday magazine with the release of the Afghanistan files via Wikileaks. Citizens and governments are faced with a fundamental challenge to privacy [...] Read more
Portland, Oregon
Albert Wenger – Jul 22, 2010
I am on the road in Portland, Oregon for OSCON. It is interesting that OSCON is here again after being in Silicon Valley in 2009. In 2009, I happened to sit down at lunch next to a development officer for [...] Read more
Applying Engineering to Business: Binding Constraints
Albert Wenger – Jul 21, 2010
Fred has been posting a wonderful series of MBA Mondays posts that I recommend to everyone who wants to know more about the business side of startups. If you come from the engineering side, it may also help to think [...] Read more
The Case of the Missing Google Notes
Albert Wenger – Jul 20, 2010
So I am finally midstream in migrating off Exchange and onto Google. Email - check (gmail). Contacts - check (google contacts). Calendar - check (gcal). Notes - what no Google notes? Huh? I may be overlooking something obvious here, but [...] Read more
Admitting Mistakes
Albert Wenger – Jul 19, 2010
A quality that I find hugely important but increasingly rare in people is the willingness to admit mistakes. Growing up I wasn’t really part of a culture in which mistakes are openly discussed and used as an opportunity to learn. [...] Read more
Android versus Apple (Flash, App Inventor)
Albert Wenger – Jul 13, 2010
Yesterday evening I wanted to bone up on the racing rules in sailing after having had a close encounter while rounding the leward mark last Thursday (which elicited quite a blue streak from the skipper of the other boat). I [...] Read more
Time for (Web) Reminders of the Wars?
Albert Wenger – Jul 12, 2010
As in the past 8 years, we went to see the Scarsdale Memorial Day parade earlier this year. Attendance was incredibly low. I remarked to Susan then that this is a direct function of virtually no one in Scarsdale having [...] Read more
Some Career Advice
Albert Wenger – Jul 8, 2010
Following our recent recruiting effort to find Christina and Gary I have been spending a fair bit of time meeting with people we encountered in the process who wanted career advice. Here are some of the points I have found [...] Read more