I just had to add my link to the pile. Hope you’re having a great Friday.

Thank you Brian Solis for the wonderful wrap up and photos of our visit to the HP Garage last weekend. Thanks to Chris Aarons and Tom Augenthaler and to everyone at HP who worked to get us inside for making this happen. Especially to Anna Mancini, HP’s Corporate Archivist, who interrupted her weekend to come and give us a little talk on HP’s history. I wish the garage could be made more open, but now that I’ve been inside I see that it’s going to be difficult to get more than a few dozen people in there at a time.

If there’s a job of the videoblogging industry it is to get all of us access to things that have forced scarcity for some reason or another. Anyway, hope you all enjoy this little look at where Silicon Valley began.

Thanks to everyone who came, made this day very special.

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I got one of the big iPhone bills too (my son and wife had them since day one) and it didn’t bother me that much, but I wondered why someone was killing all these trees just to show me all the calls I was making. Glad iJustine spoke up about it and now the bills will change to smaller ones with only the important stuff included.

AT&T bills are way too complex, that’s for sure. I still am fighting with them to get all four of our cell phones on a single plan, too. It’s amazingly difficult, especially if you have a variety of different numbers and devices.