Life Lessons
I was checking the referrers list in my blog this morning as I’m always curious to know where people come from to get to my blog. I noticed that somebody had been searching for a friend of mine’s name at Google and had landed on my page. Except that when I redid that person’s search [...]
Okay, here goes my attempt at creating a totally incomplete, biased, and opinionated summary of why you should care about Web 2.0 as a non-techie geek who can barely use their computer to begin with: Why do it at all? · Web 2.0 is about connecting people: it won’t change the world, it [...]
Microsoft was right to crush Netscape and Java. I realized the other day that I spend a huge portion of my time in a browser. I use Firefox on the PC at work and Safari on the Mac at home. From home, I will have Outlook Web Access on one tab, Gmail in another tab, [...]
Back in 2003, I attended a pivotal event at the Vancouver Enterprise Forum. Normally, these events generally follow a predictable pattern. People fill in the room, buy a drink and wander aimlessly. The venture capitalists avoid the nervous entrepreneurs with the bad pitches and the keen students stand nervously in the corner, not sure who [...]
This speech is about “connecting the dots, love and loss, and death” is fantastic. Read it. Forward it to your kids, your friends, and your parents.
