For those outside the range of Internet spatter from in-fighting, you might still be interested to hear about today’s big fight: Google vs. Microsoft To regular readers of Internet news, it’s a lot like a scene from a classic Japanese picture-film where stop motion animation has one giant, city-crushing beast is bashing another over the head with a train station. It’s fun, it’s entertainment, survival matters dearly to the beasts, but really, the rest of us are just watching; there’s nothing we can do but oooh and ahhh and cheer on our favorite beast or the underdog.

For months now, I’ve been involved with a project that has too many chefs in the kitchen. The truth of the matter is, it seems that too many times (as I’ve read other VC blogs and start up stories) there’s a good chance that there are waiters pretending to be chefs, in the kitchen.