Focus - an important trait of entrepreneur that I badly need to improve.Â
As of now, I am spliting my time into far too many things and more ideas are cropping up each day. Need to stop, reorganise and focus on, perhaps not one but definitely not too many things at a time.
For past number of […]
Archive for November, 2005
Let me quote this exchange among a group of iPod fan(atics) among my friends.
A: …S, Da, R I bought IPOD NANO!!. Haven’t name it yet. Any ideas? …
Do: … welcome to the Fellowship of the Pods… well, can name it "Aunt A"
Da: Welcome to the iPod family! Of course, you have to go through the […]
Few of my friends had quietly became domainer. What is a domainer?
Domainer is someone who buys and sells domain names.
According to Business2.0, this is the online version of real estate. Just like people invest or speculate in real estates, domainers invest or speculate virtual estates - domain names.
The latest (not really new but getting […]
Firefox and China websites
Published November 23rd, 2005 in Free Desktop, China and Online. 0 CommentsOne the the biggest frustration to Firefox users in China is the many websites that are still coded specifically for Internet Explorer (IE).
Often there is no indication to the requirement. The transaction will just work until the very last step and simply failed. All one may get is a blank screen or an unrelated […]
Too often we tried to push our way through when thing gets tough, spending ever more time and energy with diminishing return.
It usually doesn’t work but the mind tricks us in such a way that we think it does. Everything then spiral down to a total burn out.
I fell into this trap recently. Things […]
Hot on the heel of Firefox 1.5 RC1, RC2 is just released. Of course for those running 1.5, this is old news since the moment Firefox is fired up, it detects upgrade, downloads necessary files and prompts for install.
Wonder what you are missing?
Update: More on using free softwares in business at Free Biz Ware.
The blame game is something I very bad at and have no intention of improving. Unfortunately for me, in the envirnoment I’m in, the locals had perfected it into a fine art.
Instead of lamenting what happened today, let me just recount this little incident a week ago.
I went into a noodle stall for a […]
OpenOffice 2.0 had been officially released for a few weeks now. My beta release was upgraded last week. Yesterday, I downloaded the simplified chinese version and installed on one of the company’s computer.
Someone should setup a OpenOffice mirror in China. Took me a long time to download the whole package. Also I noticed that there […]
Spam. Damn spam!
First email spam, then blog comment spam, wiki spam and now the latest, Referer log spam.
Referrer spam is getting serious on my blog. On a conservative estimate, 50% of last month’s web traffic are spam.
Basically there is no effective solution to stop these spammers. If your webhosting has monthly traffic quota, […]
Selecting Technology and Business
Published November 7th, 2005 in Entrepreneur, Development, Startup and China. 0 CommentsTechnology changes fast. So fast that before one can decide which
technology to use, a new one is out to replace those in consideration.
At the same time, there are too many competing technologies. One can hardly find time to fully understand one, let alone so many of them.
Add
these all up and sprinkle in ample amount of […]
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