I was invited to speak for five minutes at the Bright Ideas networking event last night. Here’s what I said: You’ve heard of them before – Orville and Wilbur Hewlett and Packard Jobs and Wozniak Page and Brin Mitchell and Youens Even Zuckerberg had a team behind him, even if he screwed most of them…
Continue reading →Parliament passed the Copyright Amendment Act into law under urgency last night, effectively forcing Internet Service Providers to police people allegedly infringing copyrights, with the ultimate sanction being a $15,000 fine and disconnecting the offender from the Internet. The whole idea is stupid and irritating on many levels, but to me, the worst aspect is…
Continue reading →“Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.” – Marilyn Monroe
Continue reading →In January 2011, I spoke to a Summer of Tech event about why Wellington and New Zealand are great places to start an online venture, and the importance of keeping your exit in mind. Tech Entrepreneurship with Dave Moskovitz from SummerOfTech on Vimeo.
Continue reading →I finally upgraded my Thinkpad X201 from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick over the weekend. I’m pleased to report that the process was nearly flawless using KPackageKit. Despite segfaults in KPackageKit which didn’t seem to deter it, the upgrade process went very smoothly and took about an hour. I’ve only encountered three minor problems: There were…
Continue reading →Overheard: “The path of least resistance is only paved for the first 200 yards.” @tferriss (via @davetenhave)
Continue reading →Civilisation may be two meals away from barbarism, but it’s only one coffee way from whining. @thomasbeagle (via @ThisCJ and @saniac)
Continue reading →Some things just take time – especially recognition. My Free and Open Source Freelex / Mātāpuna Dictionary Writing System was just reviewed by Oumar Bah in Language Documentation and Conservation. (Download the PDF of the article). Bah writes: It is a DWS much like Toolbox, iLex or TshwaneLex, but uninke the others, it is entirely…
Continue reading →I was one of the judges this year at the NZ Open Source Awards, and presented the award for the Open Source Contributor of the year, which was won by Tabitha Roder for her work on the One Laptop Per Child project. Watch the YouTube Video, including my now-famous quote, “We cannot afford to have…
Continue reading →The Bright Ideas Challenge was born out of a conversation that I had almost exactly a year ago with Nigel Kirkpatrick, the CEO of Grow Wellington at an event designed to address the problem of how to better commercialise IP coming out of our region. Mark Clare helped whip the original concept into something that…
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