Politics
How is it that the world's most prominent democracy is so incredibly bad at being, well, a democracy? 8 years ago I looked on from Australia in shock with the rest of the world as America re-elected the least competent and most destructive person to sit in the
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Note: my personal blog doesn't get a whole lot of traffic, so I'm trying an experiment. If you're here and reading this, you're a friend and I'd love your feedback and opinion on something. So, while we haven't
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Brian Chen writes today in the NY Times about much cheaper it is to be on prepaid here in the US than go onto a post-paid plan. He lays out the numbers starkly: prepaid plan on Virgin Mobilepeople are happier with As my friend MG says over on his blog,
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I spent a few hours yesterday afternoon with the 2012 class of StartMate companies in our Sydney incubator. As someone who's spent their career working in business to business technology, I was excited to see 3 of the 8 companies focusing very strongly on solving real pain points
When I was 14, I joined the Junior Air Force in Australia, known as the Air Cadets. The first night I went along, I saw them marching around and calling orders and having their uniforms inspected. As as teenager, I thought it was the stupidest thing ever. I vowed not
Eric Ries, the author of "The Lean Startup", defines a startup as "a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty". Implicitly, a startup entrepreneur is someone who chooses, willingly, to embrace extreme uncertainty. Most people think uncertainty=high
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A few weeks ago, I finally bit the bullet and moved our AffinityLive.com marketing website to a US hosting provider. There were lots of reasons for making the move, not the least of which is that more than half of our new signups are coming from the US, a
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Update 1: I've recently written an updated post covering how to get your visa in Canada, with some fresh details around the DS-160 and appointment process. About two months ago I moved to Silicon Valley from my home town of Wollongong in Australia. While the process of moving
My reason for moving San Francisco almost three weeks ago was to pursue investment for AffinityLive, and with that money grow the R&D team in Wollongong as well as establish a sales and marketing team here in the US. Of course, implicit in this is the assumption that
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#protip - never rent a ZipCar unless you know exactly where it is located. As in you've eyeballed the spot and the car yourself BEFORE you book it. Am spending the day down in Palo Alto today, and had a gap between meetings. I'm meeting up
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I checked in on the headlines this morning and got a big shock, one I didn't really see coming. Google has acquired Motorola for $12.5B and gaining another 20K employees in the process. Some pretty interesting thoughts already emerging, even though as John Lilly says, the structure
TL;DR version: the Chromebook is already 10 times more useful than my tablet, and the fact it is only running a very fast browser allows this thing to be fast and useful like a fully loaded laptop, but with the battery life, lighter weight and low cost profile of