The last four days have been an exhausting sprint to get moved into our new house. Half the house is still in boxes, but I’m heading back to work tomorrow. The old house is cleaned out and ready for the new owners to move in tomorrow. It’s kind of sad to say good-bye to your first house. Thanks to the incompetence of Verizon (we notified them a month ago of the date we were moving in), I’ve had no DSL in the new house and won’t until early next week.

Came across Starve Ups today, an interesting looking group focused on start-ups. Here’s the twist Unlike other organizations, Starve Ups membership is only open to the founders, management and core team members of idea, emerging and established stage companies. This unique approach, which eliminates investors, consultants, vendors and service providers allows Starve Ups to encourage full disclosure among its members. I need to check it out a bit more and see if it complements the PDX Web Innovators and OEF events.

Web 2.0 or Star Wars Character? I got 39, but I have an excuse because I spent two weekends building the Innovation Map. (via CrunchNotes)

Now that Portland is the best place to live, some people may want to move here. Because of that (but really because a couple people have asked recently), here are the various technology/entrepreneurial groups around town. This is by no means a complete list. PDX Web Innovators (cross between developers, designers, entrepreneurs) DevgroupNW (design focused) PDX UX (cross between designers and developers) SAO – Software Association of Oregon OEF – Oregon Entrepreneurs Forum IPN – Internet Professionals Northwest (now part of SAO) PADNUG – .

Portland is the best place to live. How do I know? Men’s Journal says so. Shhh… don’t tell anyone. Unless of course you want to move or launch your web startup here, I don’t mind having more of those around. Tags: pdxportland