There are some good lessons to take from Richard’s story of the death of a Web 2.0 company: Actual lessons from Kiko

Paul Graham thinks you’re screwed if Google comes into your space. I don’t agree. Neither does David at 37Signals. You will need to differentiate and play harder and smarter though. Just do it better. [...]

I was awoken this morning grasping for pencil and paper to write down a dream I had. Funny thing is, it was 2 UI ideas for a new app we are working on. One of the ideas was growl notification for a particular feature and a dialogue with 3 options on it. These will likely [...]

“Don’t check your email when you wake up, or before going to bed”

Before you do, knock off a task or 2 before getting sucked into the rabit warren that is… email. This gets you on a roll for the day – even after checking what is waiting in your inbox.

This one is a tip of [...]

I was at WWDC! .... and still in Australia.



Keith too. Thumbs up from him.

Thanks Matthew Tonkin for hooking us up

Matt held up his Macbook Pro so we could see around.

We waved to people standing in line, and a couple people waved back!... ahhhh, technology!

#2 – Have a getaway work place in short waking distance such as a café, library or park.

Previous to my recent move, I was in a Suburban wasteland, with no alternative places to sit and work. Being stuck at home with little outside contact, sometimes for days, made it very easy to get into mental [...]

Over the last week, I’ve had a Black MacBook on loan from Apple to run some app tests. It was nice to be able to live with one for a week as well, and get a feel for it. Here are my stream-of-thought points.

Good:

    Nice size and weight  – feels bit less of a commitment [...]

A new medical paper was released recently:

PLASQ:  probe-level allele-specific quantitation

From: http://www.bepress.com/harvardbiostat/paper44/

as Adrian (plasqer in Switzerland) put it, “we finally have a catchy slogan!”

From a brief untrained reading, it seems to be a classification method of cells to aid tracking of mutations which lead to cancer. Or I could be completely wrong.

Heading to sydney for a couple of nights Tomorrow. Friday, 2pm, I’ll be giving a talk about plasq, and how we collaborate globally to create software.

Feature Presentation – Developing on the Mac

Wish me luck

It is great working from home, and wouldn’t have it any other way…. but… Working from home the last few years, I’ve learnt, sometimes the hardway™, that you need to take special measures to make sure you remain sane and happy.

In an attempt to perhaps help others, and even more of a hope to start [...]

I love cooking, learning about and eating food. I was very happy to discover the new house has a lovely lemon tree and a plant known as Monstera deliciosa. It’s a lovely looking plant that also yields quite an amazing fruit.  Wasn’t sure if it was edible at first, as it is quite a [...]