When I wrote a bit over a week ago that I would be entertaining offers from software developers interested in unloading their projects, I had no idea how numerous, diverse, or interesting the resulting offers would be. I promised then that I’d follow up, and that’s what I’m doing now. I received a total of […]

Mike Zornek wrote a great summary of his experience so far as an indie Mac software vendor. Billable is a slick time-tracking and invoice-generating application. The graph plotting “interest” (number of downloads) is especially illuminating since it shows how quickly the buzz of internet linking can dwindle away. Depressing, innit? He’s about to release Billable […]

Dan Benjamin has a great weblog, and has just taken the plunge into the world of recorded audio broadcasting. Checkout the Hivelogic Podcast (direct feed), whose first episode features a chat with John Gruber of Daring Fireball. The quality of the podcast is already much higher than most first episodes, so I’m looking forward to […]

I recently had the mixed pleasure of spending a few nights in the Argent Hotel (recently bought by the Westin), a rather nice edifice located in downtown San Francisco. In the month of December, the hotel had really attractive rates – I guess in the big scheme of things, it makes sense that not many […]