Archive for January, 2006

Windows Not Live

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

I signed up for the Windows Live Mail beta a while ago but heard nothing further about it until last night when I received this email:

Thanks so much for your interest in Windows Liveâ„¢ Mail beta
This is kind of embarrassing to admit, but we have a bug that won’t allow us to make the Windows […]

Design revamp

Monday, January 9th, 2006

One of my goals for this week is to improve the design aspects of this blog. I’m bored of how it looks. The plan is to make it look a bit more interesting and to follow the guidelines laid out in Jakob Nielsen’s article The Top Ten Design Mistakes.
I don’t have the time, or […]

Don’t compromise on your name

Thursday, January 5th, 2006

I’m currently reading The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki. In Chapter 2 there is a section devoted to how you should choose a name for your business. I found some of his points particularly interesting given that I have tried to come up with a name for my business in the past and […]

Where do you want to go to today?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006

Here is an interesting tool that allows you to generate a map of the countries you have visited. Here is a map of the countries I have visited so far:

That’s 17 countries, which is about 7% of the total. Looks like I still have a lot to see!

Cheap long distance calls

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

A friend of mine just started a telecoms business and I said I would give it a plug on my blog so here it is:
Telefonics offers cheap long distance calls at rates that are up to 70% cheaper than other carriers.
There, done. All I have to do now is collect my fee

New year, new list

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

It’s the beginning of a new year. Time to reflect on the previous year and look ahead to the new year. The highlights of 2005 for me had to be spending 2 months in Madrid improving my Spanish and visting Google’s headquarters in Mountain View (I saw Larry Page in the canteen too); the remaining […]