Test Blog

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2009-09-11T17:41:00.001-07:00

*** This is just a test blog post. I took the text from Paul Graham's website just because it was open in the closest tab ***

Like all investors, we spend a lot of time trying to learn how to predict which startups will succeed. We probably spend more time thinking about it than most, because we invest the earliest. Prediction is usually all we have to rely on.

We learned quickly that the most important predictor of success is determination. At first we thought it might be intelligence. Everyone likes to believe that's what makes startups succeed. It makes a better story that a company won because its founders were so smart. The PR people and reporters who spread such stories probably believe them themselves. But while it certainly helps to be smart, it's not the deciding factor. There are plenty of people as smart as Bill Gates who achieve nothing.

Lounge music (from Wikipedia)

2009-04-03T14:14:00.000-07:00

Lounge music is a retrospective description of music popular in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing the exotica, easy listening, and space age pop genres. It is a type ofmood music meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place — a jungle, an island paradise, outer space, et cetera — other than where they are listening to it.^[1] The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music-influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout, Nu-jazz and downtempo influences), whilst remaining thematically focused on its retro-space-age cultural elements. The earliest type lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as Light music. Contemporaneously, the term lounge music also denotes the types of music played in hotels (the lounge, the bar), casinos, and piano bars.

This a new thread which means blog post

2009-01-29T15:05:00.000-08:00

Песню звонкую пропела и на изгородь взлетела птица в белых кружевах и шиншиловых мехах.

Testing widgets

2009-01-24T21:30:00.000-08:00

Hey Man, You Got A Second So I Can Fire You?

2009-01-23T16:44:00.000-08:00

How are we doing today? How we doin'? Great, great. You're looking good. Love the shirt. Let me guess: Christmas present? Knew it. Great. Hey man, whenever you get a sec—and it's no biggie—I was hoping you could just pop on over to my office real quick so I can fire you.

Nothing to worry about. Trust me. Just a short little one-on-one session about you being fired. We'll have a bit of unnecessary and degrading small talk and then I'll clunkily segue into terminating your position here. I'll follow up by apologizing like I care and that'll be that. The whole thing will take a second out of your day. Promise.

You'll be in and out and unemployed in no time.

Obama Inauguration Speech Ruined By Incessant Jackhammering

2009-01-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama's Inauguration Day address—a speech that many believed would jump-start the healing process of an ailing nation, foster hope and goodwill across the world, and serve as the ultimate stamp on the Democrat's historic win—was ruined Tuesday by nearly two hours of nonstop jackhammering.

Another test post

2009-01-15T01:54:00.000-08:00

This is the introduction.

And this is the content. With some fake <tag>.

Test post

2008-11-17T01:37:00.000-08:00

Let's close the comments here.

A post with DISQUS comments enabled

2008-09-28T12:16:00.000-07:00

Hello, world!

Important message

2008-09-19T04:50:00.000-07:00

This is NOT my personal weblog; I use it to experiment with Blogger. You can find my REAL blog here.