I ran across this email today which I sent out to friends and family in April of 1999. It was a start of some interesting times for me and was fun to read again.<\/p>\n
Not to make a habit of this, but I’m moving again.<\/p>\n I’ve decided to trade in my galoshes for suntan lotion and move to Santa More recently they’ve been building out their cool web site at Why am I going to Launch? As many of you know I’ve been tinkering with a pet Anne is just about finished with her graduate program at the University of It’s hard to believe that only after I year, I’m going to leave Seattle. So I’m pretty excited about things and I just wanted to let you all know. I If you want to get in touch with me over the next few months, email Jeff Todd and I went to LAUNCH and created LAUNCHcast, which was pretty darn cool. LAUNCH’s stock crashed with the rest of the dotcoms, but things turned out ok for us when we were acquired by Yahoo.<\/p>\n I still miss PlanetAll. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I ran across this email today which I sent out to friends and family in April of 1999. It was a start of some interesting times for me and was fun to read again. Exactly one year ago today I emailed many of you and announced that Anne and I were moving to Seattle as …<\/p>\n
\nExactly one year ago today I emailed many of you and announced that Anne and
\nI were moving to Seattle as the company I was working for in Cambridge
\n(Firefly) was bought by Microsoft.<\/p>\n
\nMonica, California (on the beach, just a few miles west of LA) to work for a
\ncompany called Launch Media. Launch is probably most known for its monthly
\nCD-ROM magazine which helps people find new music. Check out it on any
\nmagazine rack.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/www.launch.com\/. Check it out. They’re all about building communities
\naround music and helping people find new music they like. The web site has a
\nlot of potential to make that happen. In addition, if you can’t stand
\nwatching MTV anymore, you can watch any number of music videos on their
\nsite.<\/p>\n
\nproject in personalized internet radio. I’ve found personalized radio so
\nmuch better than regular radio or my own CD collection that I’ve all but
\nthrown out my CD changer and stopped listening the radio in my car. I’m
\ntotally convinced that that’s where the music industry is heading. I hope to
\nbe one of the people that starts the revolution in how people listen to
\nmusic. Launch is a great place to make that happen. They hope to be the next
\nMTV. As an added bonus, their stock is going public this month, so that
\nshould work out pretty well too.<\/p>\n
\nWashington. She will graduate on June 10 with her Masters in Social Work,
\nfinally ready for the real world. After some family visits, she (and all our
\nstuff) be joining me in California later in July. Meanwhile, I’ll be scoping
\nout a couch somewhere in LA for a few months. No one said moving was easy.<\/p>\n
\nThis whole opportunity came up rather unexpectedly which makes it both
\nexciting and overwhelming. I have one more week at Microsoft and I’ll be
\ngoing down to LA around the beginning of May. Microsoft was fun and I may
\nend up back here someday, but my passions are elsewhere right now. Most
\npeople here are pretty excited for me. The weather was pretty rotten all
\nwinter (though not so cold as the east coast), but last summer was really
\nnice and I’m sorry I’ll miss another summer in Seattle. Then again, I guess
\nI won’t be able to complain about Southern California weather.<\/p>\n
\nhope things are going well for all of you too.<\/p>\n
\n(jeff@boulter.com) is probably your best bet. Other than that, check out
\nPlanetAll (link below) for the latest on the continuing saga of where I
\nphysically reside.<\/p>\n
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