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On October 23, 2005 Dane Jesper Kenn Olsen, 34 became the first person to successfully run, in daily increments ranging from 14-93km, one lap around the Earth on land masses, setting a Guinness Book of World Records record. What began from the Old Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, England on

Mark Morford strikes again. I have been having this very conversation with everybody I know. It seems that my entire circle of friends, colleagues, and acquaintances is in the midst of this overwhelming busy-ness right now. I have been questioning the value and the lack of stillness myself and then

I found this in Rob Brezny’s Astrology newsletter [http://www.freewillastrology.com] this morning: “Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to

Here are the details on one of the first Sustainability Cafés: When: Monday, March 6, 6:30 – 8:30 pm Where: BCIT Campus (CHBA BC, Building NW5), 3700 Willingdon Ave, Burnaby, BC SUSTAINABLE HOMES Description: What do you consider a “sustainable” home? What do you need to get there? Where

(If you are looking for the 2007 event information, please click HERE [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2007/3/21/2822791.html].) I am very excited about our launch of the 30 Days of Sustainability [http://www.30daysofsustainability.com]. For the month of March, Vancouver will host a cornucopia

Have you ever received a gift you hated? And then you either threw it away, hid it, or regifted it? A good friend of mine is launching a new boardgame called GiftTRAP [http://www.gifttrap.com] with which he hopes to raise $1M for Right To Play [http://www.righttoplay.

The 19th Annual Angel Forum came to a successful close this afternoon. Thirty-six companies in the software, manufacturing, communications, internet, and medical device sectors presented to 70+ investors over the course of a full day of sessions. Each presenting company was given 10 minutes to pitch their company, market, team,

I caught this story about the death of Paul Pearce, a runner in the UK, through a Google link and had to post it. It sounds like this guy was awesome. I love that they asked for people not to wear black ties but to come in running gear instead.

During my time as a computer consultant, working with clients to clarify their software goals (or their website development goals for that matter), I had this conversation more often than I care to remember. This is very funny (or painful) to any of us who have ever worked in the

In a stroke of brilliance, Yahoo is now buying companies before they are even founded [http://www.yardley.ca/blog/index.php/archives/2006/01/11/yahoo-announces-acquisition-of-company-before-its-foundation/] . This definitely wins best parody of the month. Or is it even a parody?

I wonder if any researchers have done the analysis to see how much overlap there is between Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the personality traits that are actually useful for succeeding as an entrepreneur. My guess is that these are not pathologies…but prerequisites!

It took me 2 hours to write up the meeting notes, half an hour to fix the bullets that weren’t working because of the lousy text editor in Writely (where my friends and I were collaborating on the notes), 1 minute to find out that Writely can not actually

I attended theReady to Rocket [http://www.readytorocket.com/] 2006 session this morning, which was sponsored by Rocketbuilders [http://www.rocketbuilders.com/] , a Vancouver based market strategy and consulting firm that helps technology companies capitalize on market opportunities. The presentation started with an overview of the successes from 2005. Next,

It’s that time of year again. If you are an investor willing to invest in startups, or an investor seeking between $100,000 and $1 million, registration is now open for the 19th Annual Angel Forum, hosted by Bob Chaworth-Musters. I’ll let speak for himself: Current Angel investor

The last time I remember Scott Adams doing VC comics was in the boom. This must mean we’re there again. Dilbert comics can be found here [http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert].

Yes, I see that InFlow exists (but has no download). Smartdraw doesn’t have auto-layout. And The Brain is a really cool little application but keeps hiding parts of the content. Amazing. I thought we were futher along the network mapping curve.

If you think you’re athletic, check THESE GUYS [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=515642196227308929] out.

I swear I’m not making this up. The long tail is all the rage these days. (See chart). (courtesy of The Long Tail Blog [http://www.thelongtail.com]) These are some of the long-tail searches that people used on various search engines to get to my site – bob the

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

I just spent two days at the IT Financing Forum and will likely be putting up some notes soon. But the quick summary is that it was a great two days with many wonderful conversations, a good overall mood, some fantastic learning, and I met quite a few new people

It’s better than it used to be. I have one set of contacts in my Exchange/Outlook folders. And they’re synced to my phone and PDA. But they’re not synced into Gmail (you have to use import/export). Nor are they synced to my Mac (running MS

Thanks to John Zagula for his post [http://marketingplaybook.com/2005/08/24/big_ad_big_budget_big_laugh_big_sales.html] about The Big Ad. I like John’s comments too. Lots of questions, few answers. And funny in any case.

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I’m working on a lot of projects lately that have caused me to ask this question and to try to get really clear on

(For the most recent articles on Web 2.0, check out my full Web 2.0 articles category [http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/Web20].) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some great links about corporate wikis and blogs * What’s it all about? * The Wisdom of crowds: http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/

The Vancouver Enterprise Forum event on Web 2.0 was an evening of firsts, at least if I judged it by the number of people signing up on the spot for the event who were not regular VEF attendees, the number of people who stayed after the presentation to talk