Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 12th, 2007
The Scobleizer writes: I’ve been hearing about the Chandler project for years..
Me too, Robert.
It's nice that the default screenshots of Chandler, much regarded as an Outlook killer, are all on the Mac and, frankly, the application looks better for it. It still looks a little cluttered but it's a ...
Posted in Commentary, Syncbridge, infurious | No Comments »
Friday, October 12th, 2007
I like the idea of offering flat fee services but that's because I've done it. For about two years we offered flat fee we'll sort out your broadband woes which was designed to help people who had opted for wires-only broadband installations and found themselves out of their league. We ...
Posted in Commentary | No Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
I know it's an odd diversion but I was reading "A Walk on the Wild Side of New Age Finance from Financial Armageddon this morning.
They detailed the concept of Level 3 Assets:Level 3 assets are those that trade so infrequently that there is virtually no reliable market price for them, ...
Posted in Annoyances, politics | No Comments »
Thursday, October 11th, 2007
John Gruber of Daringfireball talks about unsupported hacking of the iPhone and the sense of entitlement people have.
The point isn’t that you shouldn’t hack, or that you don’t have the right to do whatever you want with something you own. The point is that if you hack, you’re on your ...
Posted in Commentary, Hacks, infurious | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Damien muses on the Google-Jaiku purchase. It's a great jigsaw puzzle but flawed only in the way that Google tends to be a 85% company. They may have infinite money and a load of code-overbrains working for them but it seems to me that they do the first 85% and ...
Posted in Commentary, iPhone | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
Fraser Speirs writes about his general annoyance with Health and Safety:
Please don’t go here. Please don’t do that. Please don’t leave your stuff here. Please don’t walk like that. Please don’t ride your bike. Please don’t use those kids’ shoes with the wheels on them. Don’t skateboard. Don’t run. Don’t ...
Posted in Annoyances, Commentary | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The Northern Ireland Science Park may not be the most obvious place for an bedouin entrepreneur but it's a live and working Bedouin workspace in Belfast's Titanic quarter. You can Join Up and benefit from the following:
Bronze (available to individuals only) - £50 per quarter paid in advance (1 month ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Startup, Wireless, infurious | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The BBC News site has an article on Entrepreneurship and failure.
Almost four in ten would-be entrepreneurs are too scared of failure to do anything about their business idea, a report suggests.
...a third of those who wanted to set up a firm worried about the impact of the venture on their ...
Posted in Commentary, Startup, infurious | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
CalConnect.org
This is for my reference.
Posted in Syncbridge, infurious | No Comments »
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
I spotted this link on Reddit
I didn't know where else to put it.
I'm left with a sense of loss, of immense despair, an angry ennui with a world that accepts this. I'm angry with the man. How could he? What was he thinking? How can he do that?
It makes me ...
Posted in Commentary | No Comments »