Archive for April, 2008
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I'm finding Cocoa very hard. A few months ago, Aidan spent some time to coach me through the basics and while that went on I managed to get a lot of 'relatively' advanced things done. Going back to the code I wrote, even with the benefit of several weeks of ...
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Due to my own experience, I have no assumptions that a person in business may be a man or a woman but I find myself wishing for a third, gender-neutral noun for use in English. I know we have 'it' but it's less neutral and more potentially derogatory.
IrishFlirtySomething writes:
"So I ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
A thoughtful piece from 37Signals on the necessity to monetise Twitter
"That doesn’t exonerate them from building a more stable service. Especially not considering that they have five million dollars of other people’s money to do it with and a few years of practice."
"If the growth in Twitter usage was mirrored ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
The title for this blog post derives from the autre-title for "The Hobbit" which was "There and Back Again". It details an arduous journey, full of frustration and friction, in order to have an adventure and then return home.
As the months pass in $BIG_COMPANY, it becomes clearer to me what ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Social, Startup | 4 Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Reddit dredged up this gem which makes me wonder how close (or how far) business should be to politics.
Certainly makes their feelings clear. That will remain for a long time. If they use a colour-preserving detergent.
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
The Co-Working Belfast guys (David Rice and Andy McMillan) are really hoping that some of you will pledge a desk in the co-working building they have planned for Belfast.
I've already pledged a desk (that I'll be unlikely to use but will pay for anyway) and Mac-Sys is pledging a couple ...
Posted in Bedouin, CoWorking, Do Something Now, Startup | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
The Economist on Techno-Bedouin.
"The proper metaphor for somebody who carries portable but unwieldy and cumbersome infrastructure is that of an astronaut rather than a nomad, says Paul Saffo, a trend-watcher in Silicon Valley. Astronauts must bring what they need, including oxygen, because they cannot rely on their environment to provide ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
From Signal Versus Noise
Freedom is an application that disables wireless and ethernet networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time. Freedom will free you from the distractions of the internet, allowing you time to code, write, or create. At the end of your selected offline ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
The blog "Cocoa Is My Girlfriend" includes a shout-out to Jordan Languille who did the graphics for Rickshaw and web imagery for Infurious recently.
"You can see Jordan’s portfolio at his site. I’m quite pleased with the results and highly recommend his work. This is not a paid endorsement. I just ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
"First one I’ll call it Broadcasting Mode. Fucking annoying. I un-followed Guy Kawazaki for this reason. 200 tweets per day with hyperlink.Duh!! Have you heard about RSS feeds?? What are you trying to do? The worst usage someone can do of Twitter is definitely Broadcasting."
- Pat Phelan - Is ...
Posted in Annoyances, Commentary | 2 Comments »