Steve Sammartino – author of Start Up Blog – just listed ten reasons for outsourcing digital work and why it’s ethical. My personal ethics were easily satisfied with reason 9: The outsourced work is not dangerous – we are not sending kids down a mine or employing child labour. So I don’t see any ethical… Continue reading How to survice being outsourced
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Proposed adjustment to carrier fee structure
I would love to share my Internet connection with my neighbors as a way to reduce cost and increase speed and I’m pretty sure a lot of companies would love to do the same thing. Nowadays everyone with a wireless router and an ADSL modem can share and even sell their bandwidth. Except for a… Continue reading Proposed adjustment to carrier fee structure
Lomborg vs. Lomborg-errors & Co. (Part 3/3)
What’s with the precautionary principle? Lomborg discusses the Precautionary Principle in his book, but none of his critics seem to refer to this discussion. They seem to ignore it, because they do exactly what he warns about. Lomborg essentially argues that the Precautionary Principle is being abused by scientist to attract unjustified large amounts of… Continue reading Lomborg vs. Lomborg-errors & Co. (Part 3/3)
Lomborg vs. Lomborg-errors & Co. (Part 2/3)
Debunking Cool It Critique My short answer to the critique on Cool It is that it is mostly right about the details, but completely wrong about the big picture. The most comprehensive resource of critique on the book can be found on http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/. Kåre Fog and others have spent many years creating an inventory of… Continue reading Lomborg vs. Lomborg-errors & Co. (Part 2/3)
Startup Camp and the Cultural Divide between those who Have Money and those who Want It
Startup camp Last weekend I participated in the first edition of the Melbourne Startup Camp. What happens when you put twenty five people, who may or may not know each other, in a room, divide them into three teams and tell them to start a company within less than 48 hours? What if you also… Continue reading Startup Camp and the Cultural Divide between those who Have Money and those who Want It
If there was one thing you wish you had known before…
One of the questions in the student evaluation of the Google Summer of Code reads: If there was one thing you wish you had known before getting started in Summer of Code, what would it be? It is a very typical evaluation question and we all sortof know what it means and how to answer… Continue reading If there was one thing you wish you had known before…
Nieuwe homepage
In een poging mijn versnipperde online identiteit aan elkaar te lijmen heb ik WordPress geinstalleerd op ‘mijn’ server. Op dit moment kan ik er al mijn weblog op bijhouden, die dan automatisch ook op Livejournal komt te staan. Comments kunnen alleen op mijn homepage en je kan ze ondertekenen door ‘in te loggen’ met je… Continue reading Nieuwe homepage
Ik wil ‘m!!!
* hij kan met een klein zonnepaneel werken (2 WATT!!!)* hij deelt Internet met z’n vrienden* hij draait Linux* hij weegt 1 kilo* hij is knalgroen* je kan ‘m buiten bij vol daglicht gebruiken Check de review. Hij kost 100 euro, maar is helaas (nog) niet te koop hier. Echter, er gaan geruchten over een… Continue reading Ik wil ‘m!!!
Teveel achter de computer?
Als je een minuut lang op alt en ctrl + tab moet drukken om er vervolgens achter te komen dat het postkaartje wat je aan het schrijven bent op je fysieke bureaublad ligt, zit je dan teveel achter de computer?
Internet
Na iets meer dan 3 maanden is het dan eindelijk zo ver: Internet werkt bij ons in huis / kantoor. Jammer dat ik nog maar 7 werkdagen te gaan heb.