Posts filed under “Geeking out”
A new responsive design!
I’m happy to announce that this small, little blog of mine now has a responsive design! Okay… now what the hell does that mean? It means that no matter what device you use to come to my blog, it’s always going to be readable and look nice. If you see this on a desktop browser, [...]
Google+
If you haven’t heard, Google+ has launched. It’s the start of Google’s social projects, and it looks like it’s already the start of something big. (>10million users in <2 weeks!) If you’re interested, you can follow me on Google+ here. EDIT: I’ve also done some magic so you can go to my Google+ profile by [...]
Startup accelerators in 2011
I’ve long been interested in the seed accelerator model, as started by Y Combinator. I wrote my master’s thesis on it, and wrote a follow-up post this spring. Recently, two things have happened that I wanted to write about. First, I restructured the spreadsheet where I maintained a list of all companies to come out [...]
Looking back – 1.5 years since “Copying Y Combinator”
It’s been nearly one and a half years since I originally wrote my paper on seed accelerators: “Copying Y Combinator: Why and How”, which focused on how other people or organizations could create their own programmes. I wanted to reflect on what has changed, and what hasn’t changed since, and what that means for the [...]
Meet the rockets that will be bigger than Apollo (SpaceX)
I’ve been a big fan of SpaceX for a long, long time. SpaceX has cracked the nut of becoming a viable, commercial heavy-lift aerospace company. They’ve redrawn the economics of the industry, and have a very bright future ahead of them. The last two recent successful launches of their Falcon 9 rocket have been spectacular! [...]
Living and loving live music – thanks to Songkick!
Yesterday I saw The National in concert, and it was absolutely awesome. It was the first of a string of four concerts I’m going to in the next few weeks. I’m seeing The National, Arcade Fire, The New Pornographers (with Neko Case!) and Kings of Leon. But I would never have known about all of [...]
A fun bookmarklet to change the web you see
Ever wanted to change what you see on the internet? Well, this little bookmarklet let’s you do just that. Just drag this link to your toolbar / bookmarks bar: Edit My Web! Go to any webpage, click “Edit My Web!” and play around. Instead of having a page of raw text, you’ve got a page [...]
New theme & general spruce-up
If you see this post on the web, you’ll see that this blog finally looks a bit different. After having the same theme for well over a year, I finally updated it. Normally I wouldn’t write about it, but I have to tell you about the Suffusion theme by Sayontan Sinha. I first heard about [...]