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This blog is not regularly updated. Please see the links above contact information and such.

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Gunnar

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Stop SOPA!

Contact your representatives and tell them to stop SOPA. You can use the text below to send your representative an email: I am writing to you as a voter in your district. I urge you to vote “no” on cloture for S. 968, the PROTECT IP Act, on Jan. 24th. The PROTECT IP Act is [...]

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Happy Holidays!

Merry everything to everyone!

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The Para’s Prayer

Give me, God, what you still have, Give me what no one asks for; I do not ask for wealth Nor for success, nor even health – People ask you so often, God, for all that That you cannot have any left. Give me, God, what you still have; Give me what people refuse to [...]

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WordPress Android App!!!

I just got the wordpress android app set up on my phone.  Maybe more technology is the answer to my infrequent blog posts?!?

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Happy New Year

While posting to the blog has fallen by the wayside for second half of 2010. I hope that the next year will hold many more updates and regular current postings. Here’s to a fantastic 2011! Regards

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Government Encouragement of Entrepreneurship

Great HBR podcast on the ways that governments can encourage entrepreneurship (http://blogs.hbr.org/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/7390). The bullet point summary: Governments can’t imitate Silicon Valley.  It was the product of a very patricular set of circumstances in a particular time period.  Silicon Valley probably couldn’t imitate itself again today. The desire for Governments to create a similar entrepreneurial hotbed [...]

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Venture Mechanics

Venture Mechanics is an interesting group that brings a new perspective to the Angel Investor/Venture Capital model.  I am currently helping the partners and learning quite a bit.  I suggest taking a look at the site. www.VentureMechanics.com

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“Jill Bolte Taylor’s Stroke of Insight” and Chauncey Bell’s blog response

I would suggest Jill Bolte Taylor’s TED talk, to anyone interested in discussions of the cognitive sciences or discussions of human perception and thought.  After watching the video, make your way to ChaunceyBell.com and read his post responding to Taylor’s presentation. In the video Taylor discusses her experience, as a brain scientist, when she witnessed [...]

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Do we have China over a barrel?

A recent article from the Business Insider argues that the US may currently have a leg up on China. The argument goes, China holding a large portion of US debt is not necessarily bad for the US and may give the US leverage to use to pressure China into allowing its currency to float. The [...]

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