Archive for March, 2006

Beat the Rest. Be the Best.

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Guy has some new rules for revolutionaries. And as usual they're hilarious as well as informative. How to drive your competition crazy. I have always welcomed competition. I don't want to be a single player in a market. Sure, if I'm honest, then I do feel a twinge of sadness ...

Who wants to eat dog food?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

There's a difference between "eat your own dog food" and "be blindly stupid". I never liked that term anyway. I'd rather "eat my own cooking". Why does it have to be "dog food"? Anyway. The Scobleizer has an entry on his blg about how he's a bad parent and a bad ...

How would you taste?

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Wired has a great article today. It's just a collection of quotes from Steve Jobs, the half-Syrian silicon Valley wunderkind who's achieved more than most of us can hope to. Especially seeing as he was a millionaire before the age of 30. I've failed utterly on that one but let's ...

RubyCocoa - to_i and to_s

Monday, March 27th, 2006

I've been using a lot of RubyCocoa over the past few days, and ran into a few issues that took a while to solve. Blindingly obvious with a bit of foresight, so I figured I'd write this short entry to provide that foresight (or hindsight) to anyone searching for ...

You can have 3% of your own company. Final Offer.

Sunday, March 26th, 2006

This evolved into a blog topic from an iChat we had this morning. It also neatly fits into two posts by Guy Kawasaki ( The Art of Recruiting and a follow-on confusingly titled The Art of Recruiting. Both were written from an employer point of view but today he includes a ...

Probable software change

Friday, March 24th, 2006

We're getting a lot of blog spam. I'm not comfortable fiddling with b2evo's somewhat mind-numbing PHP, so we'll be switching blog software at some point in the near future. I'll keep this blog here as a read-only historical blog so that links/trackbacks still work, but no further comments ...

Nitro Q & A

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

If you're interested in Nitro, check out http://oxyliquit.de - they've added Q & A, tips and tutorials (including my Og tutorial). Lots of useful information, and a place to ask questions and get answers on the project.

Looks crap in IE!

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

Yay! I've just looked at our web site for the first time in Internet Explorer - it looks crap! IE's inability to place <div> tags correctly means we have a big black box on our home page, with the content scrolled off the screen below :-)

MacBook Pro arrives. Powerbook goes to deserving soul. So, a Review.

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

So it arrived. I'd had some experience with the Core Duo Macs through a 1.83 GHz iMac which arrived in the office about a month ago. It was quick, but hardly portable which meant I didn't get to snatch a play as often as I might like. I dallied with SheepShaver ...

NSTableView (and HTML tables)

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I remember when I first wrote a web page that had a table in it which contained more than just text. It didn't work on the majority of our university's web browsers (Mosaic was the most commonly used, although Netscape 2.0 could show the images just fine). Very ...