I turned my computer on yesterday to find a barrage of updates from MS Update… you can see this both ways.
a. It’s great they maintain their products
b. How do they find so many updates each week; and also why do we wait (at worst) a week for an update that’s done?
To be fair, in a world of broadband, 10 updates totalling 36MB took no more than ~1 minute, although anyone on a dial-up must have real problems keeping a Windows Vista / Office 2007 combo up to date!
Chris
I came across a guide to creating a successful startup today and it makes an interesting read. Any of you budding entrepreneurs should definitely check it out! I know I’ll be bookmarking it for reference.
Tips include using Macintosh computers to save on IT department costs, free in-house lunches to simulate meetings and purchasing a professional coffee machine to save on coffee-trip time(I don’t need to be told that one twice!).
Find it over on calacanis.com.
Chris
Mahalo has posted an interesting (and somewhat comprehensive) list of the best fictional brands as featured on Television.
http://www.mahalo.com/Best_Fictional_Brands
Mahalo is a project by Jason Calacanis seeking to hand-index the web relying on both the work of a strong in-house team and the community to create a search engine that provides reliable results that make sense to people, not web crawlers.
If you like Mahalo, you can get involved using the Mahalo Toolbar or join the Greenhouse to begin contributing; if you write a page, you will even get paid!
Check it out…
Chris
*Edit: this post got featured on Mahalo’s Press Coverage page.
Hmm… I googled ‘blogitech’ and realised that it’s the name of the official blog by Logitech. This blog has nothing to do with Logitech, but do you think I should keep the name, or change it?
Let me know what you all think….
Chris
For the next few weeks I’m staying with my family and because it was for more than a few days, and I have quite a lot of work to do, I figured that I’d bring all my hardware with me. Also, how could I not keep you all updated!?
I now have my rig set up in a room less than a quarter of the size that it was designed for so screens and speakers sort of rule supreme in here! It’s almost cool, but in a ‘I-don’t-want-to-get-used-to-this’ sort of way!
At home, I’m sort of a workaholic; my main project at the moment (a music recommendation and ticket sales integration application called ‘Giggle’) takes up a good deal of my time often keeping me up programming until 3am. When I’m not doing that I’m blogging / twittering / reading up on what’s new. (Besides that, I actually have a moderately healthy social life; I just don’t often mention it here) (HONEST).
Now that I’m here, work seems like a less obvious thing to do. I will often sit bored for a while thinking that I have nothing to do rather than actually get on with the work I know I have!
This brings on the question, how important are surroundings to productivity. I always thought that I could work anywhere, and often work at home, in Starbucks, other cafes… etc, but can a certain environment bring out a certain quality in you.
I hope not, because I have a lot of work to be doing!!
Anyway… next post will be more tech-related! Promise!
Chris
