Server down. I'm not a hacker, so I need to sit down and figure this out :)

A mysql reset seems to have fixed it.

I agree. The dictionary needs an update, but attaching the suffix to everything is just a tad annoying. My cousin told me that somebody asked her to "hack the computer" when she wanted her to just turn the darn thing on!

Freshbooks.

I've been using Freshbooks for about a month now, and will be happy to be paying the monthly fee starting next month.

I initially checked out iDoneThis and liked the idea, but $5/user/mo was a little too much for my bootstrapped startup.

Hence, I just created a mashup of Google Calendar + Docs and Gmail to create a solution does the same thing as iDoneThis for zero dollars.

I'm not certain if the analogy that news is bad for you is true. I've heard this multiple times from multiple people and practiced going on a news diet (temporarily) even though I'm used to being on top of what's happening.

What I ended up realizing was that the news wasn't really affecting me, because, what I was reading was not the crap about celebs, gossip and other nonsense, but actual stuff around me that was having an impact on the world.

I don't know if I could go on without reading about the Arab Spring, or the Nuclear tests in North Korea, even though they don't directly impact me or my daily life.

I've found that if anything is truly important, I'll hear about through non-news channels (friends, family, cow-orkers, personal blogs, etc.). It works remarkably well.

And Hacker News. If anything really significant is happening on this planet, it will end up here. HN replaced news in 100% for me.

That's just free riding, though. If everyone gives up news, this approach will no longer work.

Tragedy of the commons. Though that will never happen, so we're more or less free to choose the course of action that suits us best, without it having any overarching effects.

But news itself propagates naturally through social networks. MSM was an efficiency gain, not a novelty. Journalism would suffer, though.

I'm not sure if I agree with this.

1. There's nothing wrong in failing 2. Investors run a business - with a business, you have things that fail and things that succeed; they know that there is a probability of your startup failing and have gone through that multiple times

If your investors don't want to talk to you anymore just because your startup failed - you have shitty investors.

If they truly believe that you are solely responsible for the failure - they suck. It is their responsibility to help you succeed, and when you dont, be there for you and try to take responsibility for a small part of that failure.

I know it sucks to fail. When impending doom closes on you, you always feel like writing a 200 word rant essay on pastebin, but it is OK to fail and you will succeed. It's all a question of learning from this experience and moving on..