I like this…. www.lifeaftercoffee.com
The link leads to an article about a newspaper contest, which taking an existing (English) word and adding, removing or just changing one letter, will make a new word….
There are some clever people out there…
I particularly like: Foreploy, Sarchasm, Impotience, Hipatitis, Adulatery….
Yesterday was the 21st December 2007…the shortest day of the year and (because I really don’t like winter) which I affectionately refer to as the first day of next summer. I mean, if we just focus on the spring or even the hot summer and yes, even autumn, the cold winter will just wizz by in an instant. Try it…
And coupled with this is obviously the fact that all eyes are on the celebrations of next week…yes, it’s Christmas, the time of the year most of us really wish we could just crawl under a heavy stone and resurface sometime on the 31st December…ah a great day…my birthday by the way ☺…in time to welcome in the New Year. (more…)
It takes a lot to surprise me these days (i am just too old I guess) but I have to tell you that last night I was surprised…very pleasantly I have to say. I was invited to the first anniversary of the BNI Lisbon Lider Club (which when said in Portuguese sounds like Bennie…). BNI is a 22 year old business and professional organisation that allows one person from each trade or profession to join a chapter (group…and you can have various chapters in a city). With over 4,900 active chapters, and 100,000 members, it is said to be the most successful business referral organisation in the world. (more…)
I actually forgot where I took this quote, so I immediately apologise to the author….(found it….) but I think it’s something Startups and even experienced companies should be aware of. The extract of the article that is interesting is this - which should be remembered by all would be entrepreneurs:
Companies like Dogster that constantly examine user data - especially the discouraging stuff - are finding the information increasingly vital online. “Instead of working on a feature for months trying to get it perfect,” Rheingold says, “we’ll work on something for two weeks and then spend two or three days listening to users and fine-tuning it.”
Where old-economy giants once boasted of running “zero-defects” operations, today’s successful Internet businesses embrace defects as a way to get things right. Some management consultants even advise their clients to “get good” at screwing up.
We have been talking about renewable energy issues for quite some time….so it is gratifying when major companies finally jump on the wagon….. Google’s Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal
Times they are a changing…
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