Joe Duck

Denver International Airport - DEN - offers free WIFI throughout the Airport Terminal Complex. Although they ask you view a 30 second ad spot this is hardly unreasonable given the cost savings of about $10 over the pay for WIFI airport installations. I flew out via BWI this morning and although I really enjoyed the city of Baltimore, I would have had a great impression if they provided ad...

Harpers Ferry - West Virginia to Maryland Bridge Originally uploaded by JoeDuck Harpers Ferry WV was the scene of several significant historical events. John Brown's slave rebellion is the most notable but this was also a key supply point for the Lewis and Clark expedition and "Thomas Jefferson Rock" was a vantage point from which Jefferson had written about the area. The city lies at the...

Woke up this morning thinking I'd be with my cousin in Baltimore, but wound up travelling without parents from Medford to Dulles, now back with them driving to Shenandoah Valley for the big Glick reunion at Bridgewater College. United told me delays would make me miss my BWI flight this morning *unless* I could rush in and board an earlier flight. In my haste I forgot my wallet which my son...

Angelsoft is a really clever idea - consolidate hundreds of sources of capital into a single website and allow startups to apply to them all with a single "pitch" and application. Here they discuss something I've noted before - most VC funds do not do very well. They note that most had negative returns last year....

Twitter has aquired Summize, a search utility that will make Twitter a lot more friendly than it has been if you want to drill down in Twitter results and find more relevant information and people. Twitter is practically gushing about the aquisition of Summize, so it's likely that Summize is solving a major problem they have been struggling with for some time. Here's the scoop I've been somewhat...

A friend of mine has been making a case that we should be lowering the cost of care for Alzheimer's folks by setting up facilities in India. Quality of care and facilities would be the same or better than in the USA, but at a fraction of the cost. Here's an article about a guy who did this Question: Would you consider this option? If your spouse had Alzheimer's and it looked like you'd...

Yahoo and Microsoft haven't been able to agree on very much over the last few months so it now appears fairly likely the battle will head into the shareholder meeting on August 1st. Microsoft hasn't lost many of these matches and the smart money remains on them to "win" this battle and take over Yahoo. My take is that there is now enough ego investment on all sides that you can expect Microsoft...