Dive into the archives.
- Mac Girl Open Source Challenge
Here’s the deal: I haven’t used Linux since the age of 15 so we can pretty much safely say I never used it. I’m your token Mac Bird, I’ve been working on macs for about 5 years now, I physically cringe when I have to even look at Windows (yes, say what you want, aesthetics of daily tools are important). I want to switch from Mac’s operating system to Linux. I want to do all the things I do on my macbook in open source apps. I really don’t care about the guts of it, what and how, I want it to work. I’m not willing to change any of my usual habits to go open source, I want it to work around me. Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts…
- The joys of travelling
..But there was no escaping the fact that the dark, fermented water I was given in a Guinness glass was undrinkable. I bought it as a joke, for my Guinness-loving polish friend and I learnt the hard way: no joking. Beer is serious stuff in Belgium. So I had a bottle of Duvel at the airport and waved good-bye to the international city where everything seems really local.
- How to screw up entering a new market?
1. make a device that is more expenseive than what people are used to pay for this type of thing
2. before it is released make so much hype you’ll irritate half of the opinion-creating media
3. release the device
4. undersell because point 1.
5. cut back the price by $100…
- Useless blogger and the sea of unwritten posts
Marquez wrote once about his sea of unwritten short stories - stories he had ideas for, or just killer titles that he couldn’t make up a plot for and how they all swam away unwritten creating a sea that every writer has to learn not to sink in. I have had so many post ideas they formed quite a significant pond by now and I feel a bit short on breath…
