Category Archives: Business

Start Up School

As a person who hopes to rule the world, I am always reading as much as I can about startups. The book Founders at Work is one of the most inspirational books that I have come across and here is another piece of wisdom from one of the Y Combinator alumni Mr. Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html. These [...]

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Effective communication between geeks and everyone else

I have a problem, I want to move more into the business world but it seems I only speak geek. This is a very serious problem, especially when you are working in a small company and the majority of people are non-geek. I have a solid command of the english language having been raised in [...]

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Building software to rule the world

As a person whose main goal for being in IT is to become filthy rich and make others bow to my will I naturally look to those who have accomplished this task for inspiration and ideas on how to do the same. I am sure that many entrepeneurs out there do the same, we buy books [...]

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HostMySite security breach Redux

After calming down a bit and speaking to my friend about the HostMySite security issue I think I will show a bit more patience with HMS on this issue. The reason being (and this is a big stretch for forgiveness!) HMS offers budget hosting for ColdFusion sites. At US $19.95 per month it is cheap for [...]

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Seth Godin, Alexandra Burke and more randomness

This is just a completely random post about several small things that have been whirling around the periphery recently. Firstly, I’ve almost completed Seth Godin’s excellent Small is the New Big. This book is a must read simply because it reiterates the need for independent thought. You may have the next huge idea but because [...]

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