Field Notes

HowGoodIWas.com launches its friends and family beta in four days - Google indexing post for search.

SpamAssassin plus Mail.app filters manage spam burden effectively - IMAP junk folder safeguards false positives.

The Tom Bihn laptop bag became my travel essential - light, roomy, and built for both adventures and coffee runs.

French croissants are light, flaky, buttery. Ours are dense, greasy lead weights - there's no comparison.

A week in South France: Monaco supercars, Bandol wine region, Juan-les-Pins yachts, and jet-lag adventures.

YouTube stopped playing after two seconds until downgrading Flash from 9.0.124.0 to 9.0.47.0 fixed it.

ATG RSS Feed Droplet now supports configurable character encodings - reformatting breaks feeds, so beware.

Tech startups carry no debt and don't depend on luxury spending, so they'll weather this recession far better than last time.

Andrea saw a Boston Marathon license plate in Boston - the ultimate vanity plate flex.

Attended Startup School in San Francisco - full coverage across two blog posts on Friday and the weekend.

Y Combinator's Startup School 2008 packed the auditorium early with eager founders - here's what it felt like to be there.

First flight on Virgin America First Class: luxury that rivals Qantas with two-person legroom in a narrow cabin.

Someone made a how-to video for 10MinuteMail - user-created content is the best kind of product validation.

Heading to Startup School this weekend - if you're there, email me.

Columbus trip: 4:30 AM flight, jet lag at midnight, interviews on zero sleep - the startup grind is real.

Russell Moore figured out how to add upload image functionality to the ATG Commerce Center for custom binary properties.

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival with overheating brakes, sparse color, daffodils, and a 15-foot trebuchet.

RichFaces modal panels break in IE6 when using s:graphicImage - use a Servlet workaround instead.