Archive for March, 2008


The Art of the Start

I’ve just started reading The Art of the Start - the time tested, battle-hardened guide for anyone starting anything - by Guy Kawasaki.
I’m only a few chapters in but it’s a great book. I was particularly struck by the first few paragraphs of the Introduction or “Read Me First”:
There are many ways to describe the [...]

To CV or Not to CV?

Seth Godin has a typically brilliant post on his blog today entitled Why bother having a resume? in which he makes a very good case for not having a resume or curriculum vitae.
Seth makes some very good points in his post, among them:
A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your [...]

RSS Diet - Complete

A week has passed since I started my RSS diet which brings the experiment “phase” to an end.
“Will you be going back to RSS?” I hear you ask; and the answer is no, I will not.
I really expected to find not using RSS difficult, that I would be spending more time on websites trying to [...]

RSS Diet - Day 2

It’s now the end of day 2 of my RSS diet and I’m pleased to say that I’m not missing Google Reader and my multitude of feeds at all.
Interestingly, not only am I not missing RSS but my time spent online has also dropped. I thought that I would need to spend longer reading my [...]

RSS Diet - Day 1

I’ve decided to conduct an experiment; I’ve decided to see how I get on not using using an RSS reader or following my multitude of RSS feeds for one week.
I’ve always read and followed a large number of websites for both professional and personal edification and RSS, being created for this very task, seemed to [...]

Apple Announces iPhone SDK & Enterprise Support - RIM Shares Drop $3

Apple today announced details of the SDK (finally!) and enterprise support for the iPhone.
The SDK will allow developers to build native applications i.e. ones that run on the iPhone such as the calendar application, rather than webapps which require an internet connection.
Apple also announced enterprise support via a Microsoft ActiveSync licence, which will bring Blackberry [...]