Rich's Tongfamily (Richtong.net add-on)

Bicycle Maps in Washington State. In looking for more places to ride, I found this site with a great list of trails and bike route maps around Seattle.

Short Ignition Descriptors. I’ve been doing a bunch of introduction mail lately. Here are I think the best introductions for later use of what I do over there…just putting here to clip in for later Two line email introduction Rich Tong is a partner at Ignition, an early-stage fund based in Seattle (Rich was Vice…

Who Will Buy O2?. Some commentary from the UK about O2… O2 is a very-badly run company. The decision making is confused and power so diluted that there is no strategy or direction. The company, like BT, is so self-absorbed that people there don’t think of their rivals in business as being their opposite number…

Google News. It is amazing how far you can push free text search information. This is beta of Google’s real time search of news is pretty amazing. Those folks over there continue to amaze me. Makes you think about how much more there is left to do in search and indexing and how lightweight systems…

AddPro – Submission. My poor sad sack friend, Adrian has a great web site, but it isn’t even indexed on Google. Found a free submitter that puts him into at least 20 search engine and probably spams his name everywhere. At least maybe he’ll get indexed by the link from this entry 🙂

Mavic Technical Manuals. It is very hard to find the Mavic technical manuals online for bike parts because it is for dealers only and is password protected. Turns out however that the various PDFs are still crawled by google, so you can get to them with a search. Here is the one on the Ksyrium…

Sheldon Brown Bike Advice, Lickton’s. I find Sheldon and Branford to be the two best sources on the Internet. There was recently a story about Sheldon in Bike magazine and it is true he knows an amazing amount. Very responsive on mail too. I highly recommend any of these small local shops. You can pretty…

Naptheon build wireless application for Newport News. One of my buddies, Ty Carlson over at Microsoft dropped me a note about this. Pretty interesting vertical application and use of wireless

USATODAY.com – Cell phone users flip for AOL instant messaging. Wow, 500K users added per month doing IM on cell phones. Pretty amazing. An interesting trend that shows how powerful IM, SMS and email can be.

Select Audio Reports, Iraq Hearings: NPR Special Coverage. OK, I’m a news geek and back in 1991, you had to listen to a radio. Now you can hear it all online. INteresting to here the different POVs