Monthly Archives: March 2009

Working in the Shed

I love this new idea.  It is called “The OfficePOD” (which Apple won’t like) and it is a self enclosed working space for people working from home.  It is a home office space: the idea being that if a worker doesn’t have to drive to work but has a place that is just work focused [...]

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Jeez. This one just makes sense

So there is a new super easy eco friendly way to re-use that deliciously warm waste water from your hour power shower in the morning.  It is just a simple heat radiator that does heat transfer from the waste water to the water coming back into your shower clean.  They say it could reduce the [...]

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New Action Potential Post

My sister (Nora Purcell) is in China…  but she just put up a new post,  you can read it here.  It is a pretty cool story and sounds like just the most wonderful adventure. Here is a snippet Throughout the case study I was the beneficiary of a lot of people’s incorrect assumptions. People have [...]

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Where the Wild Things are

A movie by Spike Jones version of Where the Wild Things are is coming outand i just found a trailer!  I think it is going to be lots of fun, thought it won’t hold a candle to the original book!   That book was one of my favorite favorite books as a child, and is still [...]

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Beautiful Video

I found this wonderfully beautiful video.  Really magnificent. the time spent creating and filming this would be quiet the undertaking.

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Browser Wars

I saw an interesting thing today as I was browsing through some of my Google Analytics… (I only have time to check them once year) but on our Analytics (my biggest site) has some really weird/abnormal browser results. Read on to see the chart.

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Green Jobs

I have been brainstorming on the ideas on how to best use the ideas in the Outliers… The idea that you need to find and foster opportunities at the correct time. The idea that Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Bill Joy were all born within 6 months of each other that that is the reason [...]

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Gmail – I love you.

I love Gmail.  I have loved it for a long time.  I loved it so good and so hard But really.  It is wonderful,  I am always suprised and alittle horrified when someone says,  “oh, I should have brought my laptop, that so i could check that email” “what” I respond “can’t you just get [...]

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New Nano Car! Tiny little cars in India.

So final a car that i thinks is almost the price and the value i want.  (I am not a driver.  I don’t have a car.  I use Zip car, which is wonderful.)  So in India there is a new car coming out in July,  the price point – 2g’s! That is so cheap.  We [...]

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Cloud Computing

I am a huge Cloud Computing Fan!  HUGE!  It is incredible.  I was just thinking this because of all the cool technology I use that sits on top of the Cloud. I have video streaming service built totally on the cloud from amazons systems.  I use the S3 to store my videos (50gigs) and then [...]

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