tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:45:30 +0000Articles focused on physical and financial self improvement through martial arts, web entrepreneurism, and personal finance.http://moluv.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (moluv)Blogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-5850159642733928716Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:27:00 +00002009-01-15T10:59:09.558-08:00This time I think we have a winner. The previous version of Moluv.com was heavily based on a what was originally just a placeholder layout. It was confusing to some, and it became a little chaotic for my taste.The new version states pretty clearly what the site is about - great web design. New links are front and center, and featured site thumbnails are now clickable and slightly smaller to gethttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2009/01/moluvcom-redesign-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-4359907721132988942Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:41:00 +00002009-01-01T03:05:33.348-08:00Throughout the course of the year I've been doing a lot of reading and research on past and current technology. All of this study has led me to the conclusion that we are special as individuals, and even more so in groups, teams, and communities. Much more so than most of us realize.This process really began with the question, "How was the Great Pyramid of Giza built?" This led me to http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/12/spiritual-circuit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-3568876831559099415Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +00002008-12-10T16:28:12.706-08:00I was in a conference room in Denver traveling on business when my Google search results started sending me to random pages. Bad. Same thing with Yahoo and Ask.com. Very bad.The problem went away for a few days, but crept back up. I think it opened a door for some other stuff too, because my Firefox bookmarks got wiped out, and the background of the text for my desktop icons started to changehttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/12/gogooglecom-virus-trojan-annoying.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-4783464949620691173Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:53:00 +00002008-11-06T13:01:11.959-08:00A November to remember. I guess Lewis Hamilton's F1 driver's championship victory was just the appetizer. Happy birthday to me.Obama Victory Speech - Clip 1Obama Victory Speech - Clip 2Obama Victory Speech - Clip 3McCain Concession Speech - Clip 1McCain Concession Speech - Clip 2http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/11/president-elect-barack-obama-victory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-2285472595979781642Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:50:00 +00002008-11-02T20:37:30.269-08:00I first began following racing in the 80's. I used to read car mags like Road and Track, Car and Driver, and Motor Trend as if they were a lifeline. They were to some degree because it took my mind off of the everyday drama that was school. I had my favorite F1 drivers. Alain Prost. Ayrton Senna. Even Nigel Mansell, although he always looked kinda mean. To this day I can still feel what ithttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/11/lewis-hamilton-wins-f1-drivers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-8978760824645435184Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:00 +00002008-09-11T11:48:39.793-07:00A couple of weekends ago we focused on spear techniques in Kali seminar with Tuhan Joseph Arriola. At the seminar we recorded some weapon sparring. It's mostly no contact, but you always have to be careful when weapons are involved.Tuhan posted some footage from the session on YouTube. Below is a video of me sparring with one of the Guros. Staff against butterfly swords gives me a pretty big http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/09/kali-spear-seminar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-4652660147490769642Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:46:00 +00002008-09-08T14:15:20.957-07:00Last Wednesday if someone would have told me that morning that I’d be dropping a 54” Big Screen (not a flat screen, but a big screen) TV twenty feet from a loft’s upper level to it’s lower level … in free fall, I would have bet my Corvette that it wouldn’t happen. But it did, and the TV was demolished.While I’m writing this from the 11th floor of an office building in San Francisco, there are http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/09/people-are-irrational-life-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-5302279706419225900Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +00002008-08-18T13:34:18.544-07:00At it's peak, Moluv.com received over 7000 unique visitors a day. When it was being updated regularly, getting 2500 uniques a day was pretty typical. Not too shabby for a site I designed and developed to keep track of my favorite sites.After maintaining the site for 7 years, I started to burn out. You have to go through a lot of mediocre design to get to the good stuff. Also, dealing with http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/08/moluvcom-relaunch-soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-9164852178699732262Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:42:00 +00002008-06-05T22:27:39.548-07:00It's that time of year again. San Francisco's largest dance event has arrived, and once again Shabnam made the cut. Congratulations cutie! Getting in at all is pretty tough. Getting in as an individual performer is tougher. Getting in consecutive years is insane. One of the biggest benefits of appearing is the photoshoot with top San Francisco-based photographer RJ Muna. This year's photo http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-san-francisco-ethnic-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-8219042640544660435Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:06:00 +00002008-06-01T01:55:39.570-07:00I have to start this post by saying that the book Groundswell is the most important business (or book for business) I've read since I was first recommended Built To Last 10 years ago. Why? Because, like Built To Last, the insights are backed up by plenty of data, and written by authors who have clearly and intelligibly presented something really complex and distilled it into something even an http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/06/groundswell-and-gamerscom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-904683440931997637Tue, 06 May 2008 03:41:00 +00002008-05-05T20:59:05.987-07:00A lot of stuff has happened over the last few months, but I think I'll reserve this post for what I've been spending most of my extra time doing ... capoeira. That would be because I finally have some footage of one of my games, and it's playing against Mestre Themba.For those of you not familiar with Capoeira Angola, it a martial art disguised in dance-like movements. Because its still http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/05/capoeira-angola-in-oakland.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-5964767035081014774Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:34:00 +00002008-05-01T08:38:58.094-07:00The folks at ('/Blog_Design_Ref/DesignInterviews');">DesignInterviews.com asked me to provide the 20 sites I reference when I need design ideas, but you don't really need that many. So, I provided them with 10. If you can't get inspired to design with these sites, you're in the wrong business. Here goes.Compilations1. ('/Blog_Design_Ref/Title_TheFWA');">The FWA (('/Blog_Design_Ref/URL_TheFWA')http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/04/design-reference-sites.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-7163320128879470969Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:08:00 +00002008-02-11T10:29:09.549-08:00It's 2008! Time for new stuff. Back in December that's what I was thinking. After years of reading books on innovation, self-empowerment, creativity, and business, I thought the new year might be a good opportunity to use this blog to prove a point: great ideas are a dime a dozen. For some reason my friends and co-workers have always gravitated towards me when there's an idea they wanted to http://moluv.blogspot.com/2008/02/new-ideas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-6514950111878876483Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:42:00 +00002007-11-20T17:24:44.316-08:00After leaving the FICA Pastinha Roda last week, me and a few Capoeira comrades went to a local bar to talk a little about the games that went on that night. As usual, everyone else got some alcohol, and I got my OJ. As you can imagine, the jokes came to no end about my choice of beverage. We all had some laughs, then went home.It occurred to me then that out of the group of us at the bar that http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/11/orange-juice-equals-home-owner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-5381919945143322761Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:09:00 +00002007-09-13T04:59:21.414-07:00As mentioned previously in many of my blog posts, I've been studying kali and capoeira for a few years here in Oakland, CA. Last night both disciplines had a chance to converge at an event designed to bring folks together during the new moon. Unfortunately, it wasn't under the best of circumstances. Let me explain.I've been studying Kali in a space called Cafe Axe in the heart of downtown http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/09/cafe-axe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-7757094085879627272Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:18:00 +00002007-08-30T15:18:46.132-07:00I'm approaching my second full year in capoeira, and fourth year in kali. In my first year, I tried integrating some of the attacks I learned in capoeira into my kali class without much success. The way we practice in kali was just too fast for me to be able to even think of a capoeira move, let alone use it too. Now things are a little different.I can now mix in cabecadas, rasterias, aus, http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/08/kali-capoeira.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-7032691550633851848Fri, 11 May 2007 00:13:00 +00002007-05-14T16:44:54.130-07:00Back in January I went to L.A. to offer advice on how the Philatron.com website could be improved. Philatron was started in 1974 by Phil Ramos Jr, and is now one of the top brands in custom coil cable products. The last public article had their revenue at $15M back in 2003. I would guess they're pushing $100M by now, but that's just speculation. My good friend Eric introduced me to Phil, and http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/05/philatroncom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-1637637707805544363Wed, 02 May 2007 22:00:00 +00002007-05-03T08:48:26.229-07:00On June 9th Shab will be performing at the 2007 San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A pretty big honor for a solo artist considering the scale of the group performances featured yearly at the show. Even more so considering that she was selected to close the first segment on the opening night of the 3-weekend event.In a few weeks we should be launching her new website, which will hopefully be http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/05/2007-san-francisco-ethnic-dance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-8254638385498007635Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:58:00 +00002007-04-20T11:45:14.190-07:00I've been taking Kali for over three years now. When I first started this blog, it was typically my favorite subject to write about. During that time I started Brazilian jiujitsu and capoeira classes. Each of these styles have led me through humbling experiences. Repeated arm-lock submissions in jiujitsu and headkicks and handstands in Capoeira have taught me over and over again to respect http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/04/kali-and-tuhan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-2703418199270350758Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:04:00 +00002007-05-14T12:26:55.731-07:00My earliest car memory was when I was maybe 5 years old and we were visiting my Grandfather in Chicago. We went for a ferry ride in Lake Michigan and on the pier was a store with a bunch of wind up toy cars. I wanted one so bad, but we had spent enough money just getting to Chicago. To this day I still collect Hot Wheels to make up for that disappointment.My next pivotal car memory occurred inhttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/04/peter-egans-side-glances.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-6781416793460486695Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:11:00 +00002007-04-17T15:16:39.530-07:00One of the best Google mashup concepts yet. Imagine a local phone book that points you to a business then shows you a video of that business. It's like a high end Craig's List. Turn Here's San Francisco Bay Area Map is a good place to start to see what I'm talking about. The Emeryville-based company is located only about a mile or two east of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, so there's a http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/04/turnherecom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-8132696850891566352Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:33:00 +00002007-05-14T12:25:52.221-07:00In "The Book of Five Rings" the author, Miyamoto Musashi, an undefeated swordsman, talks about something he refers to as "sickness". It basically means focusing too much on something ... anything. For example, paying attention to every distraction when you're on a date, or conversely paying so much attention to your companion that you don't see the cars passing when you cross the street. In http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/04/balancing-balance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-3491716708948021045Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:33:00 +00002007-05-01T16:55:23.095-07:00I've written a little about capoeira angola in the past, but if any art isn't properly represented with the written word, it's capoeira. So, here are a few of my favorite capoeira YouTube videos. Next, I'll have to throw in some Kali stuff.CRAZY flexibilityMestre Cobra Mansa throwing some wickednessMestre Moraes schooling on rasteirasOld school styleThese are my all-time favorites, but for morehttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/04/extreme-capoeira.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-117104231859518953Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:31:00 +00002007-02-12T13:36:51.196-08:00We had a one-week company retreat in Breckenridge, Colorado that ended today. The best part is always meeting all the people I normally work with virtually throughout the year. Part of the activities this time (for me at least) included snowboarding. I was fortunate enough to have a co-worker that used to be a snowboard instructor. How fortunate is that? I thought it would be easy, but I http://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/02/week-in-denver.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8330507.post-116951008042473193Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:54:00 +00002007-09-28T11:37:23.705-07:00I can't believe it was sitting there right in front of me all this time. For those of you not familiar with Capoeira, music plays a HUGE role in the art. The problem (for me at least) is that all of the music is in Portuguese.With a monolingual person like myself, that's no small hurdle. Learning songs in a different language is tough. In a lot of cases I find myself just mimicking the soundshttp://moluv.blogspot.com/2007/01/capoeira-lyrics-and-music-holy-grail_22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (moluv)2