September 2008
43 posts
The Cab Ride I’ll Never Forget | Zen Moments →
If this story doesn’t make you watery-eyed or feel a bit choked-up, you probably need a holiday.
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“I want to apologise to my fans for screwing up again, and to promise them...”
– George Michael says sorry to fans after drugs bust
This has got to be one of the best press statements, ever.
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The Times - iPhone finally arrives →
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How did you score today?
by Steve Mathew
Years ago I bought my first sales book about becoming a Rainmaker, by Jeffery Fox. It had all the usual tactics and strategies for sales people. I learnt a lot. But the one thing I took from it was a simple daily scorecard for sales people. (I used the tactic again when getting Fireworkx off the ground).
It goes like this:-
Everyday you MUST score 4 points. They are...
270 Tools for Running a Business Online -... →
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The big Open Source issue - Who Buys Lunch?
By Steve Mathew
I know some of my colleagues are groaning as they read this post. It’s true, I have been clucking on about this issue for years. But until now, I haven’t fully committed it to writing. What prompted me was an article I read last week by a blogger who was berating the South African government for not really embracing the Open Source Software (OSS) movement.
OK, so let’s get the...
“The problem with infinity, is that is just damn-well doesn’t know when to...”
– Me
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The Richest People in Tech
1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), $57 billion
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), $17.3 billion
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), $16 billion
13. Sergey Brin (Google), $15.9 billion
14. Larry Page (Google), $15.8 billion
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), $15 billion
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $8.7 billion
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), $6.8 billion
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay),...
“What you have doesn’t make you unhappy. What you want does.”
– Seth Godin
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WatchGuy photographs himself every day for 17 years
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iPhone SA launch date set - 28 Sept →
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“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”
– Milton Berle
So true. It’s timeless and universally true.
“To this day, Google has still never run a TV commercial. Their popularity has...”
– 60 Minutes” (CBS, 2005) - transcript
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
WatchTime & Attention Presentation: “Who Moved My Brain?” | 43 Folders
There’s something about this that appeals to me. I think it’s the bit about breaking up bits of work into smaller chunks that can actually get done between interruptions.
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“Indeed, V8 processes JavaScript 10 times faster than Firefox or Safari. And how...”
– Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web
I guess that explains my snappy end-user experience.
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Two geeks bantering over freshly installed Google...
me: using chrome now - but the gtalk gadget - this is working ok - chrome seems good and clean - and fresh tra la la
Ludwig: indeed. i loaded omigsa in .2 seconds flat. the speed is tremendous.
me: yeah I like the built in search in the url bar
Ludwig: yeah
me: seems they took the apple webkit and mozilla engines and “merged” them - they wrote their own javascript engine which the folks say is faster
Ludwig: i also think it is. gmail is noticably faster
Ludwig: right click on a page and go ‘inspect element’ -Leon’s gonna love this
me: oh wow, groovy
“Is this the first post on Tumblr using Chrome? He asks.”
– SRM
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“What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web...”
– Mr Pichai, VP Product Management, Google.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Google launches internet browser
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