Archive for August, 2006

Back seat

Monday, August 28th, 2006

As alluded to earlier by MJ, I'm taking a back seat when it comes to Infurious.??? This is because I've spent most my spare time this year working on SyncBridge and I feel like I need to redress the work/life balance a bit - I think my family needs more ...

On changing your life, being your own boss and going bedouin

Friday, August 25th, 2006

This article at Entrepreneur.com speaks volumes: "When I was researching my business concept, I interviewed owners of 100 businesses that had closed," says Williams. "I found that three-quarters were nowhere close to failing financially. They closed because of highly personal reasons, such as a health crisis, or they just woke ...

Flipping the competition

Friday, August 25th, 2006

For a while now, the MP3 player market has been dominated by Apple with their iPod and they've had Creative nipping at their heels with their range of copycat players. Creative, unhappy with being trounced at the MP3 market, launched a series of patent disputes against Apple based on ...

Monetising..

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

There are few words I hate more than "monetising" (that's "monetizing" in the US). Because we need money to buy food, keep a roof over our heads, pay for broadband, upgrade our computers and buy shoes (yes, those are in order of importance), we find ourselves considering ideas on a basis ...

Cocoaheads: 2nd meeting : Tuesday 15th August

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Last night, we held the second Cocoaheads meeting in Roast on the Lisburn Road. Coffee was not bad, bagel was gorgeous. Present was: Aidan Rogers, Edward McCaughan, Matt Johnston. We discussed: Our coding: Not much had progressed since SyncBridge came out. Edward expressed some frustration in getting stuff finished. I think this goes ...

Donald J. Boudreaux teaches ecology/biology/medicine/genetics

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Donald J. Boudreaux is an idiot. I don't care if he's the current chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University, he's a disaster as an orator. Apparently his knowledge of economics, love of capitalism and lofty post gives him unprecedented insight into medicine, the environment and social ...

The Cafe Question

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Mark Morford writes: There are always choices we can begin to make, changes we can begin to invite, rules we can work to upset, angles of penetration we can try to explore. And if that's not worth trying, well, what is? His article is about how we have become enslaved by ...

Coming alive

Monday, August 14th, 2006

??????Don??????t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.?????? ???????Harold Whitman I got that quote from PicoBusiness just now. I spent too long working for [big company] and then I spent some ...

WWDC Afterthoughts

Saturday, August 12th, 2006

WWDC left us with some very exciting technology to look forward to. I've started learning ObjC again - with a sprinkling of Cocoa so maybe I can turn into a programmer. The additions to ObjC, such as garbage collection and a lot of script-to-framework libraries will make a difference to ...

One Dot Oh - the beta ends!

Friday, August 11th, 2006

This week brought our 300th user as well as 100 000 events processed by syncbridge.com. It also brought us out of Beta and you can see the new website at syncbridge.com., have a look at the new tour page with the accompanying movie (voiced by both of us) and last but ...