Monthly Archives: August 2009

Mandy wrote about failure and the Fail Party in her ITWeb column: Celebrating Failure

A week of birthday parties.. Monday, upgraded my blog farm to 2.8.4, survived my first (Kundalini) yoga class. Tuesday, heavy rain, gym, spinning. Seems Ingi got engaged a while ago. Wednesday, fetched my 5DmkII, a run to Bantry Bay. When … Continue reading →

It’s ok to fail “Go ahead, Cornelius, you can cry…” Sometimes it’s very liberating.. figure out when to quit, step away, realise you failed, take a deep breath, learn and move on. Rewind a few weeks I while ago I … Continue reading →

An idea from the Gartner Symposium this year.. Chief economist at First National Bank, Dr. Cees Bruggemans told us how the global economy lost a tire recently.. it was a major bump in the road (even if you look at … Continue reading →

A cross-training week.. Monday, watched Antz again, a visit to the Nike factory shop, lunch at Melissas in Newlands, got a new squash racket (let’s play?), dropped Mia off, dinner at Will’s.. good Pad Thai, very nice bottle of Saxenburg … Continue reading →

Who’s idea was it? ..valid question. What’s more interesting is: How big was the idea? and Who were on the team?

The Free business model has won. Stating the obvious. It’s just not cool selling anything. Scarcity is not a cool business model. We know all this, and it scares us, maybe because it does not really make much sense, at … Continue reading →

Regular readers may know that I don’t like content traps (most centralised Web2 services). I like to own, manage and backup my content.. even trivial things like Facebook status updates. A few people have asked for more real time content. … Continue reading →

Mostly a Gartner conference week.. Monday, Gartner Symposium at CTICC, tea with Cath, drinks at Daddy Cool with the Gartner journos.. they can party, met Samantha Perry from Brainstorm. “What is your meaning of winning?” — Chantell Ilbury “With great … Continue reading →

Yes, yes, this is very late. Did you think I switched to micro blogging?.. nope, I was just busy. Monday, dropped Mia off at playschool, visited Will to chat about a wireless network project, fetched Mia from school, lunch at … Continue reading →