Archive for December, 2006
Sunday, December 24th, 2006
Last night I was at a party where the conversation between strangers turned the conversation to where it always goes when strangers collect in groups. We talked about movies and music.
I extolled the virtues of some of my favourite films (Tron, The Sound of Music, Strange Days, NightBreed, The Great ...
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Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Violent Acres has a wee sermon on how to fight.
It's fun reading. I've always found that responding to imminent violence with confidence works wonders.
I used to fight a lot in school. Always hauled up for it. In primary school there were two guys, Martin and Colin, who I fought with ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
Moments with a secret smile in my years at Apple is written by someone with 20 years experience at Apple in the sales departments. In this post he waxes about selling to resellers, selling to education, selling to companies who have no money and selling to the government.
Yes, another Apple ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
Reading this:
Resumes are tailored for a particular job, and let’s face it, often “cosmetically enhanced”. If you’ve been blogging for years, you certainly did not do it with a particular job in mind; your blog is likely to be a true reflection of who you really are, what you ...
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
The speaker is David Heinermeier Hansson. He created Ruby on Rails. The full quote is:
Apple will continue to trounce everyone else for the preferred geek platform. The stigma of being a Web programmer still using Windows will increase.
To be honest, the stigma of being on Windows no matter your occupation ...
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
I like Paul Murphy, the nom-de-guerre of Rudy de Haas. His book, The Unix Guide to Defenestration was a very good read from the point of view of someone wanting to set up a service-based IT organisation and a lot of the hints and tips in there are worth their ...
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Saturday, December 16th, 2006
No growth without assistance.
No action without reaction.
No passion without restraint.
The things we touch have no permanence.
There is nothing we can hold onto in this world.
Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
A faithful heart makes wishes come true.
Make a wish.
- ...
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Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
I'm just going to point you at a comment I made on Jame's Eirepreneur blog about the differences between Serviced Offices, Virtual Offices and Bedouin workspaces. Apparently it was good enough to deserve it's own post.
This is an area I'm really excited about.
In this post I'm kinda defining the ...
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
I've been so busy that I've not had a chance to blog in a wee while. Or so it seems.
I find myself presented with not only a dentist appointment (*groan*) but also three exams. Sure, they're just multiple choice exams but they're for a certification - one that means ...
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Saturday, December 9th, 2006
Michael Kanellos has the dirt.
He tells us that Apple will come out with a new phone and tells us that it will fail.
This has got to be some sort of record. A product, that a company has not acknowledged it is developing, will fail, based on projections from a journalist ...
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