Someone else’s urgency

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

"One thing I’ve come to realize is that urgency is overrated. In fact, I’ve come to believe urgency is poisonous. Urgency may get things done a few days sooner, but what does it cost in morale? Few things burn morale like urgency. Urgency is acidic. Emergency is the only urgency. Almost ...

Get mad at yourself for your mistakes

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

BoyGeniusReport reports on a curious exchange between a Mac owner and Apple's Steve Jobs. Said customer was irate because he spilled water on his MacBook Pro and was quoted a base $300 to start the repair with no guarantee it would fix the unit. He emailed Steve Jobs and the ...

Mobile/Portable Computing Caveats

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

One thing that is nice about John Dvorak is that he truly has a visionary streak. In all the years I've read about technology, Dvorak has seldom been right. He's managed to cherry-pick the absolutely wrong from the blatantly obvious for years. That has to count for something. The rant this ...

more on co-working

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Back in 2006 I seriously investigated the possibility of setting up a co-working facility in Belfast. At the time I was pretty much asset-free :) I had a working, profitable business but not enough capital to undertake something of this magnitude. We were looking at a 3 storey building within ...

Two sides to every “truth”

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

It was nice to see a Belfast Blogger on Macsurfer this morning though it went a little sour when I read the comments. The biggest thing I like about blogging is the potential for conversation and by extension, for resolution. It's also an opportunity to present both sides of a "truth" ...