Overhearing

I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Seattle and listening to the conversations around me: at three of the nearby tables a recently ex-Microsoft employee pitching himself.

One of the guys is talking to a local VC — but his idea must be really dumb, because the VC guy just doesn’t look engaged. Another guy was a mid-level manager (who might actually still be at Microsoft but who’s seen the writing on the wall) and the last sounds like he was something of a pretty competent developer.

(Oooh, the guy talking to the VC just said, “hocky-stick growth”.)

Another table nearby is talking about their latest Web 2.0 thingy. It’s really hard to tell what they heck they’re planning to build, but they’re talking about social networks too…

Summing Up Life

The following quote from Anna pretty accurately sums up life about now:

“I’m sorry… Were you speaking?”

I Love The Mobile New York Times

The New York Times mobile Web site has been around for a while now, but I’ve never really appreciated it.

Mostly what I didn’t like was the pagination of the articles. I’m a reader. I like to read and having to click on the next page link three or four time to read an article was a drag.

(I’m still holding out hope that Apple will release a large format iPod touch because I’ll buy two: one for me to use as an ebook reader and one for Molly to watch videos on.)

But just tonight I realised that if you click on the single page link at the bottom of the article, the Times will remember that. The next article you read will also be served as a single page.

Woo hoo!

Update: I’m only disappointed that I can’t use the mobile interface from desktop Safari.