Color me surprised…

The court considered whether the IM conversation between Soltani and Touris served as a modification of their written contract and came to the following conclusions:

• Soltani’s initial message constituted an offer to modify the contract to raise the daily limit to 2,000.
• Tourin’s response of “NO LIMIT” constituted a counter-offer to remove the daily limit altogether.
• Soltani accepted Tourin’s counter-offer with his response “Awesome!”

I’m subscribed to The Verge now instead of Gizmodo or Engadget, but the criticism here is pretty fair. Honestly, I’ve never read any of these sites for the prose or viewpoint, I just skim the pictures and facts. By the definition of what they are (broad coverage), the only way they could have strong opinions would be to promote individual writer’s voices that champion/focus on specific verticals and companies.

(thanks Joel)

While neither of these methods will be ready for commercial application any time soon, they’re a big step forward in making solar power a practical and widespread alternative to fossil fuels.

These things take time, this is great news.

Some great ideas here from Brent. Definitely agree that finding the right buyer is the top priority. If after a long search you can’t find the right buyer, consider making the code Open Source with an invested customer or community member to shepherd the project.

We are defined by what we build. It’s not just the engineering ambition that designed these structures, nor the 20 people who died building the Brooklyn Bridge. It’s that we believe we can and decide to act.

In the last month I’ve been able to spend more time building things – I love that feeling.