All posts of Ian

Being proved wrong – in style

Not content to just try to verbally convince me that the even-numbered Star Trek films were superior to their odd-numbered bretheren, John went ahead and proved the result with a statistics test. Then kennon went and dugg it and the rest of the internet came visiting. Memetastic!
19 years ago

Two new ShowMeDo Videos for Python

I’ve added two new videos to ShowMeDo.com, both for the Python language (announced over here). The first is for how to write Python code using the SPE editor and the second is for debugging Python code using SPE and WinPDB. These compliment our original Python videos and those for IPython.
19 years ago

ShowMeDo.com – new beta on-line!

We have a new release of ShowMeDo on-line! We’re receiving some amazing feedback on our market-test with offers of new videos ranging from language tuition through knitting and on to car servicing. We’d love for these new videos to compliment our current 10 videos. Our 10 videos are free to access (and always will be), […]
19 years ago

Making Money with On-Line Services

I’m seeing an increase in on-line services that let users earn money from their efforts. Many people like the idea of supplementing their incomes by doing something that they enjoy. Some examples: eBay – become a retailer selling whatever you choose Professional blogging – e.g. ProBlogger, write about what you enjoy and earn money through […]
19 years ago

Two Entrepreneurial Pieces

Two good entrepreneurial articles, first Paul Graham’s How To Make Wealth, previously only available in Hackers and Painters is now on-line. If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That’s been a reliable way to get rich for hundreds […]
19 years ago

Blink.com’s Founder Looks Back

Here’s a cool post from the founder of Blink.com, a failed but well-funded social bookmarking site from 1999. He talks about their past offering given the recent success of the del.icio.us social bookmarking service and their acquisition by Yahoo!. He laments their mistakes, it’s rare to see someone be quite so open about their decisions: […]
19 years ago

John – Thank You!

I’d like to say a huge thank-you to John to helping ShowMeDo take a step forward, we’ve now got a daemonised TurboGears server that runs 24/7 (woot!). There’s nothing to see yet (really, there’s just a blank page) as I haven’t yet put up any content or the real server…but we’re getting there. Fingers crossed […]
19 years ago

Upgrading Ubuntu, problems and solutions

I’ve just upgraded my Ubuntu linux distribution from “Hoary Hedgehog” to “Breezy Badger”. I ran into some trouble, I’m pretty sure it was all caused by me running out of disk space during the upgrade. For the record I’ve added the process here to go from a broken upgrade to one that works. I also […]
19 years ago

Great customer service

Two of my toys blew up last week. My 18 month old 17″ Viewsonic LCD monitor just stopped working and about the same time my 6 month old 512MB Compact Flash camera card died. I was (pleasantly!) surprised to see that Viewsonic offer a 3 year warranty on all LCD monitors – they just came […]
19 years ago

An evolutionary approach to starting a company

Here’s a nice post by a VC taking a look at two ways of building a new business – either start well-funded by VCs or start as a one-man-band in a garage (or a two-man-band from sofas for Kyran and I). “We don’t have a preference for one way or the other, but I will […]
19 years ago