Archive for 2008
Tell Me How The Spark Caught Flame
I want you to tell me the story of how you got started with the Net. Tell me how your passion was sparked and why it keeps coming to full flame. Tell me why the Net matters to you, even after all of the long days, short nights and wrecked weekends. I’ve been writing my [...]
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Hitchhiking the Information Superhighway
« Post 2 | This is the 3rd post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series | Post 4 » “As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I like beginnings. This is a constant. In primary school, I tried to re-invent arithmetic. My [...]
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Back to the Beginning
« Post 1 | This is the 2nd post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series. | Post 3 » “When a job went wrong, you went back to the beginning. And this is where we got the job. So it’s the beginning, and I’m staying till Vizzini comes.” — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride [...]
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The Self-Hostage
Each day a few hand-crafted nuggets of spam make it past the small maze of anti-spam measures in place on this blog. In general they are fatuous, perfunctorily relevant comments on some past post. The spammer usually links to their SEO blog or some other value-free, irrelevant and (often) crass commercial site. Earlier today, someone [...]
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Pork Tenderloin Wrapped in Prosciutto, Chicken Forcemeat and Puff Pastry
When I was visiting my friends Cornelia and Sandro in Germany, Cornelia made a wonderful pork tenderloin wrapped in puff pasty dish. Taking her dish as inspiration, I worked up something similar for Christmas on Bowen Island this year. Ingredients & Method 400 grams Puff Pastry Make puff pastry (or set frozen puff pastry out [...]
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Merry Catmas
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Settling in for a Winter’s Blogfest
This is the 1st post in my MoFo Futures 2009 blog series. | Post 2 » Christmas is nearly upon the Christian and Consumerist parts of the globe. Along much of my latitude, snow is piling up in record quantities and weather warnings abound. Even in oft-green Vancouver, there is a foot or so of [...]
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The Baden-Württemberg Brief
Two days in Frankfurt, two days in Munderkingen and two days in Heidelberg between December 5th and 17th. Mostly just ordinary working and travel days. Visited Sandro Groganz of Init Marketing in Munderkingen. Worked from Sandro’s house after a nice dinner on Sunday. Caught up with (and was interviewed by) Rory MacDonald of Init Marketing [...]
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Externalities Win
Earlier this year, I gave a presentation at Münchner Kreis’ Leadership by Open Innovation in the Telecoms, IT and Media Industries event. What follows is a rough transcript of my presentation. I recognise that it has flaws, but may still provide some useful neuron twiddling for readers. I’m happy for feedback and suggestions. Externalities Win: [...]
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The Paris Brief
Spent from December 7th until 14th in Paris. Attended the AFUP Forum PHP. Provided opening keynote for event. (Slides here.) Well-attended, well-run event. 500 people over two days. Some excellent sessions – including a security session by Damien Seguy that needed to be given twice to meet demand. Small exhibition hall with a mix of [...]