Robert Hess sent this one over. Lots of fun. It’s a Wonderful Internet. Speaking of Robert Hess, he’s a geek who’s worked at Microsoft a long time (about 17 years if I remember right) but he’s also a cocktail geek. Huh? He owns the cocktail museum in New Orleans. He told me the museum survived and wasn’t flooded, but they are moving the museum to Las Vegas.

But he also keeps the Drinkboy Web site where he has tons of recipes. Very useful around this time of year when we all need to entertain friends and family. Have fun with this, but don’t drink and drive!

Chris Anderson joins Don Box at Don’s house and they film a video together about some geeky stuff they’ve done with various devices at his house. Basically your “geeks out of control” kind of things. Fun video, neat piano (connected via SOAP).

I was listening to Bloomberg radio on Sirius on Friday and they had an expert on that said that it must be a bad day at Microsoft because Google made a deal with AOL (TDavid is wondering which way this all will be spun). Now, I don’t know about the executive offices, but in building 18 we were a little disappointed, but no one was sitting in their offices crying or anything like that (which is how the panel made us sound). It’s always interesting how the press plays up business conflict.

Oh, and to TDavid’s questioning: why must everything be spun? Sometimes in business you lose. Sometimes you win. The trick is to increase your average. When I sold cameras I didn’t close every sale but I tried to close every one.

Sometimes, though, when it looks like you’ve lost things come back around. Remember, Bill Gates didn’t want the operating system business. He sent IBM away. We all know what happened next.

We’ve had more than our fair share of wins.

For instance, Lorin Olsen, CTO of Sprint recently announced he’s joining Microsoft. That’s a huge win. I met Lorin last year and he’s whip smart and a real interesting guy. Can’t wait to see what he’s working on. He was at Sprint for 19 years.