http://www.adeoressi.com Entrepreneur, Environmentalist, and Founding Member of TheFunded.com Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:30:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below is an embedded page from the Superior Court of California that shows the real-time status of the "EDF Ventures (EDM, Inc.) versus John Doe" court case. As of September 3, 2008, the status of the case still appears "Open." http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/09/03/edf-ventures-vs-john-doe-case-status/ A friend of mine sent me the following quote: Most existing monitoring tools are ugly plugs with lame LCD screens and while some companies, namely Tendril (http://www.tendrilinc.com/) and Greenbox (http://www.getgreenbox.com/) are taking a more integrated and systematic approach. This is an interesting area in the transition from electron based power systems to ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/09/02/integrated-monitoring/ You know that it is bad when your bug-laden iPhone 3G provides a far superior computing experience than your $3,000 top-of-the-line Lenovo X61 Tablet with touch screen functionality. Initially, the X61 struck me as a giant iPhone. Now, it appears to be a gilded paperweight. It's sad to see the ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/09/01/lenovo-you-build-crap/ While camping deep in "gold" country this weekend, we learned about the practice of hydraulic mining in the mid 1800's. Large water pathways were carved through the land, and water was funneled into smaller and smaller tubes until the stream became a powerful jet that washed away mountains in the ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/09/01/hydraulic-mining-massive-environmental-destruction/ A friend of mine wrote me the following email about the economy from the trucker/trucking point of view. Interesting: While traveling around the country by Jeep, I spent a little time listening to Trucker Radio. The current diesel costs and the impact on the economy were hot topics of discussion. I had a ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/26/trucking-fuel-costs-and-local-production/ EDF Ventures vs John Doe from Adeo Ressi on Vimeo. http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/25/subpoena/ There are those among us who deserve our admiration and respect because they stand tall. These are the obvious candidates for greatness. There are also those among us whose greatness lingers behind the scenes, shining in the dark corners of our world. Their greatness peers through the challenges of life to ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/20/judgecal-memorial-reading/ Tonight, starting around 9 PM EST, the JudgeCal Memorial will be broadcast live from New York City. The live video alone is embedded below. If you would like to chat, you can go to the event video page here. For information on the various memorials, please visit the more-JudgeCal group ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/16/judgecal-memorial-live/ Here is a presentation from Casual Connect Seattle 2008: Games and Venture Capital - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: Games and Venture Capital http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/16/building-a-venture-climate-in-casual-games/ At 3:00 AM in a lounge while listening to live music on July 31st, 2008, my friend, Pierre, leaned over and said: "I have some bad news. JudgeCal is dead." In shock, and asked what happened, and I learned that he had been found dead in his apartment. A terrible sinking ... http://www.adeoressi.com/2008/08/01/judgecal-has-passed-away/