Archive for December, 2007
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I've gotten so used to ranting about Bill Thompson's short sighted tirades on the world that it comes as a real shock when I not only agree but believe that he is absolutely 100% spot on with his assessment of the OLPC.
As a bonus he points out what a prick ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Yes, it's time to stop buying anything to do with Western Digital. They think we're scum.
One of the world's largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing online their media files that are stored on networked drives.
Western Digital says the decision to block sharing of music and audio ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
I've spent a lot of time in the past talking about "Going Bedouin", an idea of working that I adore and which I have tried to do for several years, while working for a large telecoms company and also while working for my own company. I feel it helped the ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Mahatma Gandhi dictated the seven blunders of the world to his nephew.
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
and an eighth added by his nephew:
Rights without responsibilities
As a father, husband (to be), business owner, people manager, taxpayer and ex-scientist, I find that a ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
When I bought and activated my iPhone, I asked for o2 not to include insurance. I have good enough technology insurance certainly to cover my iPhone as it covers all the other technology items I own.
Then I find this in my new o2 bill.
Monthly extras? eh?
I'd urge everyone to check ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
...and I've developed a reputation as being a bit of a git so why shouldn't it be me?
Talking to the Infurious team this morning over IM, Aidan reckoned this would simply be an example of the "Wise Fool", better known to me as the "wisdom of innocents" - the idea ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I read a lot of feeds usually several hundred posts in a single sitting and while reading I tend to create placeholder posts in my blogs so that they can serve as reminders of things I want to write about later.
For example, the ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
So, here's the deal. Let's say you want a job as an IT pundit. You first find out whether there's any jobs. There's one at ITWire, a site that reports to be "connecting technology professionals". You use your charm and wit to get a job. Brilliant. They didn't bother to ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
For a few months my son Jacob went through a patch of night terrors.
He would cry in his sleep and if I was there quick enough then the touch of my hand was enough to send him quietly to the land of Nod. However in ...
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Friday, December 7th, 2007
James at eirepreneur writes:'maybe we can do business some day'
Startup entrepreneurs should read that a few times. We like to think of ourselves as great socializers in this country, and we are, but not in the same way as the entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. As regards doing business we're much ...
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