26 August 2010
I needed to do this today… The disk utility in OS X 10.6 can only create CDR images, not ISO images which I needed for use with VMWare Fusion. Luckily the BSD back end of OS X makes it simple to do this stuff the kung fu way… Here are the instructions: 1. Insert the [...]
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26 August 2010
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” – Sire Isaac Newton. An opportunity has presented itself for me to get some time with a few fairly well known Australian businessmen over the coming months. I love it whenever I get to spend time with people that are further [...]
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23 August 2010
My two year old has this expression that she busts out whenever I’ve been away for too long – it’s goes “Daddy I MISS you…”. That’s kind of how I feel, with all of the crazy stuff that has been going on over the past little while it’s been hard to find time to blog… [...]
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12 July 2010
Image via Wikipedia Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
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27 June 2010
Image by aquababe via Flickr One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don’t know that something can’t be done. So they try something that’s so audacious and usually end up pulling it off. - Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures. From the NYTimes.com.
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25 May 2010
Image via Wikipedia I got asked an interesting question over the weekend, one that I often asked other people: Q: What’s in your heart to do? My Answer: I want to build an empire. I’ve answered it many times before (and for the record, there are lots of other things that i want to do [...]
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01 April 2010
Image via Wikipedia Anyone who knows me, or has read more than a few posts on this blog, will know that I love Timothy Ferriss‘ book “The 4 Hour Work Week“. The strategies are awesome, and the book is inspiring on many levels – The D.E.A.L. strategy in particular is fantastic. But it’s not the [...]
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30 March 2010
For my money, a good business idea needs the following: A problem (a.k.a. a need) For that problem to be common enough to create a market (i.e. there’s no point creating a product if you’re the only one who’ll ever use it – I find this is very rarely the case though) For their to [...]
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23 March 2010
Apple, like most companies, have an internal update release schedule to keep the market engaged with their product. They don't let the public know what the exact schedule is, but the guys who run this site keep track of it. If the product you are thinking of buying is at the end of it's cycle and is probably about to get superseded, a) it is about to become a whole lot cheaper, and b) if you're a cutting edge type of buyer you're about to get sorely disappointed.
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23 March 2010
Image via Wikipedia One of the challenges us “part-time” entrepreneurs face is the creep of our “5 to 9″ (i.e. the side-projects) into our “9 to 5” (our employment). We are duty bound to our employer to work for them while they are paying us, and it is becoming a fairly core ethic of mine [...]
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