LoudSpeakers

I’m back in India for six weeks as we try to push to reach the next level of our beta release. We’re going to open it up to a wider audience in the coming weeks.

I’m also going to be at BarCampBangalore3 this coming weekend being held on India’s prestigious IIM campus to discuss some thoughts on the Semantic web and how we fit into it.

On another note, I chose to take the direct, non-stop flight to India from the States rather than making the connection in Europe as I previously had in the past. The trip can be painful, but it’s the best way to minimize fatigue. And the prices — at the moment at least — are less than the cost of making the connection in Europe. 15 hours on a plane can be rough though.

It’s been a while since I updated my friends on the progress of the restoration of my 1969 BMW 2002 that was originally started in late 2004.  It was supposed to take 3 months and I would have been driving it just in time for the weather to get warmer in 2005.  The shop that has been doing the restoration delayed the effort significantly for reasons outside of my control and as a result I’m getting a bargain basement price for a complete restoration. 

Anyway, lots of things have changed since I blogged about it last. 

1.  All lights are back in.

2.  The window gaskets and windows are back in.

3.  The seats, seatbelts, carpet, and have been installed though this photograph does not show the front seats being installed.

4.  The headliner has been installed.

There’s still minor electrical work that needs to be completed to fix the hack job of the previous owner.  And I might need to dig up a better dashboard from the pile of ‘02s that this restoration shop has.

You can view all of my previous BMW 2002 photographs on Flickr here.

Here are my previous posts about the ‘02.

I found myself recently doing a ton of Google searches using something like “liquidation preference site:feld.com” or “implicit site:avc.blogs.com” and I realized that I should just create a Google Co-op search using these sites instead. 

I was having a conversation with Rafer recently and he said something that clued me into the name of my new search engine:  VC optics.  I registered the domain before we even finished our phone converation and hilarity ensued.  The intention is to have a simple search interface for VC and entrepreneurial resources. 

I uploaded portions of my OPML file and away we go.  I also made the search portion open to anyone who cares to contribute to the search index by including additional URLs.  Feel free to add your own blog or any others that may be of value.  Hope it’s as useful to others as it will be for me.