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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
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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
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I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade, and I've been working in tech that entire time. But just this last week, I made the move. I now live in Silicon Valley. Why do it, what does it mean for my life, my businesses and my
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Just a quick note to let you know that we're kicking off a regular Silicon Beach Drinks here in Wollongong. After kick-starting the tech entrepreneur scene three years ago, and playing a massive part in bringing together a really strong community, we thought we'd have our
Aside from my work as an entrepreneur with Internetrix and Hiive Systems, I'm also pretty active in my community as a board member of Regional Development Australia (Illawarra). The Board of our RDA is made up of some pretty impressive people from lots of walks of life, leaders
A quick one that hopefully my geeky friends, followers and random Google searchers will appreciate - a way to restart all services being managed by the popular Daemontool's supervise package on Linux. We use supervise extensively for running our various custom daemons that power AffinityLive, and because we&
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Amazingly, it has been almost 6 months since I last wrote a blog post. There's probably been a million things go through my mind that I've thought about blogging about, of which 0.1% would have been worth sharing, but it is still a bit of
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With the first StartMate applications closing in a few weeks, a few of the organisers and mentors are holding an information session this Friday evening in Sydney. If you're thinking about applying to Australia's first Y-Combinator type startup program, but you're not sure whether
Since announcing StartMate - and its list of investors and mentors - back in August, those of us working on the project, particularly Niki Scevak, have been working hard on getting all the scaffolding of this new venture in place. And while there's a lot of boring bits
A campaign, backed by donations from members of the Fix the Princes Hwy at Heathcote Facebook group, has gone live this morning, with a large display sign installed at Heathcote to let some of the 25,000 people who use the Princes Hwy a day what the so-called Minister for
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My Pop passed away earlier this week. While very sad for all of us, it wasn't tragic, as he'd been going down hill a fair bit over the last couple of months - his heart had finally had enough, and just quietly, I think he had
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As you're probably aware, the Minister for the Illawarra decided to screw over the people of the Illawarra earlier this week when he over-ruled advice from the RTA to put in a clearway at Heathcote. NSW Labor used the cover of the Federal election campaign to make their