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"When I lived on 10th/B I used to always cut over to walk by that place at night. It's like that guy keeps the corner turret library illuminated just to show off. I would too." - morland

"A quick behavioral hack when the software won't delay for you is to fill out the message in reverse - body, then subject, then recipient(s). It's a pain for reply-all if the recipient list is too large but in a lot of other situations guarantees you won't send by accident." - morland

"Awesome." - morland

"Kudos Al, the econ nerd in me rejoices." - morland

"They played this last night in London in a still-active church - fantastic. Some good pics on Flickr: http://flickr.com/search...... The live percussion, which I didn't expect, adds a lot." - morland

"That's an interesting question. We don't have the resources unfortunately to provide translation ourselves, but we're going to try to allow (and encourage) the aggregation of as much data from the event as possible. If anyone wants to translate this voluntarily we'd be pleased as punch." - morland

"Hi Hessia- I just emailed you yesterday morning, after your first comment. Did you not get it? If not, can you send an alternate email address to info@seedcamp.com? Thanks, M" - morland

"Sorry about that Hessia - we'll look into it immediately." - morland

"Hi Anna- No need to cut us 20%, thanks though ;) Be sure to let us know how much interest you get. -m" - morland

"Agreed - I was also surprised that some up-and-coming languages were absent (Erlang, Haskell, OCaml)... and no Git either." - morland

"Hi Francesco - the contest closed last week. Did you also apply to Seedcamp?" - morland

"http://www.seesmic.com/video..." - morland

"Yes, it's a cumulative total - the day-by-day would just be the deltas in the steps up each time. We're analyzing the applications stats and will post something when we have it ironed out." - morland

"No, it's not a dumb question at all. There's a bit of a "prisoner's dilemma" problem here where asking people to abide by a shared code of conduct is doomed to fail if: 1) entrants have much to gain by deviating from that code 2) entrants know their deviation is not observable to other entrants, and even possibly administrators 3) entrants therefore expect others to deviate, and must then deviate themselves to avoid a competitive disadvantage As the number of persons involved increases there's a lower chance that everyone will abide by that code out of what we might call, for lack of a better term, sheer altruism. My own gut speculation, which is completely empirically unverified, is that above 10 participants the chances of one deviating are already asymptotically approaching 1. I'd be positively shocked if, with a group of 19, not one entrant self-promoted in the manner you're describing. There's probably a greater likelihood that I'd be voted Sexiest Man Alive (still keeping the..." - morland

"Ok - fixed now." - morland

"Not sure what was going on - looks to be up now." - morland

"Whoops, we'll have that changed by the morning if that's ok - a key resource is out for the evening. Sorry about that." - morland

"Hey guys - had to upload it to my account to get the poll embedding working. I'll pull it when the voting is finished. http://seesmic.com/video..." - morland

"Looks like you succeeded in both respects, but as you said I don't think it's a "pitch" per se ;)" - morland

"I know it's twisted but I totally get a kick out of this." - morland

"We'd really prefer you use Seesmic for two reasons: 1) it's integrated with the voting system we rigged up for tomorrow 2) we're not looking for anything formal - we're trying to replicate the impromptu environment in which founders often find themselves, so sticking with a site that encourages a quick conversation (albeit with the camera) is more realistic than a slick presentation That said, if you really can't use Seesmic for some reason we can try and work with what you do use. -m" - morland

"Hi guys- Can you see my reply to Marty's comment below? Thanks, -m" - morland

"Hey Martin- Yeah, I'm inclined to agree - it's not quite in the spirit of rule #2 (e.g. hard to replicate what they've done in an elevator). Norbert and David - this video is great, but as Martin noted one of our goals with this is to help you practice live, in-person pitches. Not to say you couldn't show your video before getting up and speaking about Comparor, but the speaking is still critical. Would you consider a new video more along the lines we're looking for? Thanks, -m" - morland

"I am truly out-nerded, sir." - morland

"Just testing out Disqus... ignore." - morland

"That is so weird, even for you Al." - morland