A Meaningful Life

I received an email from Google Apps notifying us that we are getting a 15 day subscription extension on our Apps Premier account basis outages in August. We didn’t actually experience much of an outage outage at Saasu. Very commendable of Google and it totally maintains my trust in their brand and the SaaS model [...]

Kevin Kelly presented at TED on The One. It’s about the new Internet, the semantic web. Watching it, I couldn’t but help think Kevin Kelly was very aligned to the Gaia Hypothesis without realising it. Maybe he is, and just doesn’t mention it in his speech.
Since reading Peter Russells “The Awakening Earth” back in the [...]

Here’s the 2008 list of what countries have given in AID to the World Food Programme.
What is amazing is that Iran isn’t on the list. Iran had an earthquake in 1962 which was one of the founding reasons behind the establishment of the WFP. Iran is making mega bucks out of oil at the moment.

USA
1,158,338,019

Saudi [...]

I was reading through celebrity chef Benjamin Christies website tonight and found this post on How to Cook the Perfect Steak. Well I was hungry in just a nano-second after reading this marinating idea…
dry marinate using sea salt, black pepper and macadamia nut oil
Macadamia nut oil !  My friends and I have spent many [...]

We are about to see the start of unshaped iPhone plan disasters reported in the Australia press and blogs over coming weeks.
Shaping is when your Telco service provider cuts down the speed of your internet connection on your mobile or computer device. It’s an alternative to paying high excess usage charges on a per [...]

There are many business models emerging amongst iPhone developers. Many remind me of Google using Search (the drawcard) to pump their Adwords product (the money engine).
Since learning that business model lesson back in the late 90’s I’ve always thought about what I call drawcards, and specifically in the tech space, drawcard applications. Browser widgets are [...]