Copacetic

Ken lets us know about RoadDeaths.net. I wonder if they could use some of the feeds that Damien Mulley rounded up? I couldn’t see any reference to a feed like that on the site.

Final quibble, shouldn’t it be RoadDeaths.ie?

From one of my PDC training courses (apologies, I can’t remember which one),

We judge ourselves by our intentions, we judge others by their actions

Richard Rodgers splits valuable hairs with Seth Godin’s trite statement “In every profession….half the people are below the average”.

Nice Graph!

Via slashdot, you shuld read this excellent interview with Tim Berners Lee. One quote struck a chord with me from my time working at Oracle,

At the moment a lot of company knowledge is held on spreadsheets and
Powerpoint slides, because companies need to see summaries. But the
data has lost its semantics, so it’s not usable.

Cape Clear has broken cover with its latest investment round of USD$15m. The latest partners to invest are InterWest one of the Silicon Valley Sand Hill mob. As Annrai is reported to have said in 2005 in the Sunday Business Post,

So only a billion to go then Annrai :-).

From what I gather on the web and my own sources Cape Clear total investment to date is broken down as follows,

• 2 Million in seed funding from ACT in 2000
• 16 million in Series A funding from Accel and Greylock in 2001
• 10 million in Series B funding from Accel and Greylock 2003
• 5-10 million: A phantom series C round raised as a set of warrants amongst existing investors. It was never press released and their is no mention of it on the net.
• 15 million in a series D round in the last few weeks with InterWest

So we can guess that the total investment is at least USD$48m and may be significantly more.

Thats a lot of money for a bit player in the web services/SOA/ESB market place. Even at a preference multiple of one they would need to make USD$100million in a trade sale before any of the common stock holders see a dime.

Answers on a post card for the last Irish company to make a trade sale exit that netted more than $100m…

Disclosure: I was Director of Engineering at Cape Clear from 2000 to 2003 and I have (common) stock in the company.

ThinkingOutLoud has a great list of Country and Western Song titles.

My favourite is no. 11,  I Still Miss You Baby, But My Aim’s Getting Better.

MSNBC reports on Scott McNealys resignation as Sun’s CEO. Jonathan Schwartz the current COO takes up the cudgels as the new CEO.

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Darren

Happy Birthday to you

Bob Cringely talks about Apple’s movement towards running Microsoft Applications. Always  a good read.

Chris Chedgey is blogging about his company and its software. Chris was my first boss after I left college and put up with horrendous abuse both physical and verbal from me and others when we worked together at Generics Software.