Chris Mullins presents a great startup tool kit. I’ve seen most of these before, but there were a few new ones for me, and it’s nice to have it all in one place. (via Startup Fever, another new to me resource) Subscribed to both.

I was looking through my Bloglines subscriptions this morning, trying to prune back inactive blogs and seeing what kind of subscriber counts certain blogs had. It’s interesting that Business Week’s Well Spent blog only had 5 subscribers (Granted there are 8 available feeds for this blog, so there may be more subscribers across the different feeds. But, why on earth do you need 8 feed URIs?). So, I went to the site and see that Well Spent is not in the list of blogs anymore.

For most of my life, prior to this thing they call the web, sports was my #1 passion. My goal was to play pro baseball. That didn’t quite work out and I only made it as far as small college. But, it’s always fun to read some great sports stories and take your mind off everyday life. I just came across a couple good ones by Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball:

Steve Rubel adds his thoughts on Windows Live Favorites. I echo these criticisms along with my earlier post. I ended up trying Favorites out just for grins. Man, what a pain. First I had to install the MSN toolbar (another disappointing MS tool) and jump through some other hoops. Then, to use it, you have to keep an explorer bar open, which I don’t like doing. Then you have competing favorites tools (builtin and Windows Live) that aren’t connected at all, which is kind of weird.

I’ve been reading and hearing great things about Pandora. One co-worker referred to it as “ear crack” and I can definitely see why. It’s fun to plugin you’re favorite artists and songs and see what’s related. A nice legal way to listen to music.