Given Amazon are clearly gearing their business toward minimised free cash flow, they operate less like a traditional corporation and more like a weaponised market-disruption machine. Question is, if their key owners don’t mind the lack of profits, what else do they want? Like the disruption / destruction of a particular industry? Next step is… Continue reading For whom the Amazon flows
ifPhone
If Apple want to do an end-run around wireless carriers, and enter the prepaid market with a bang, they need a device that can be bought without carrier subsidy for a price lower than (or extremely close to) their subsidised iPhone. Tis a big ‘if’ I know, but if they did, what would they compromise… Continue reading ifPhone
Sadness
After almost 30 years of owning the brown and white house on Brenda Street, the older Gears have gone. The past few weeks have been spent watching and helping as loads of memories were packed into boxes and moved into garages. But the reality of it is only now starting to hit home. No more… Continue reading Sadness
Making Yum Cha Feel Like Home
Dear friends, koinonos, start their long trip to Sydney. Goodbye for not long.
How We Do It In Australia
Enacted after the tragic mass murder at Port Arthur, Australia’s “National Agreement On Firearms” was a watershed legislative moment. Quoting from Wikipedia: Anyone wishing to possess or use a firearm must have a Firearms Licence and, with some exceptions, be over the age of 18. Owners must have secure storage for their firearms. Before someone… Continue reading How We Do It In Australia
Owning your words
Interesting take from Scott Hanselman on the respective value of social networks vs. self-hosted blogging. Own your space on the Web, and pay for it. Extra effort, but otherwise you’re a sharecropper. – Tim Bray Actually, Anil Dash has posted similar thoughts recently as well. Perhaps there’s something to this whole owning your space thing.
Skyfall
Thoughts on the new 007 movie: – very British – more gritty than even Quantum – diverges hard from Quantum / Mr White / etc storyline Things that mildly amused me: – Voldermort takes over Hogwarts – I kept expecting Macaulay Culkin to pop up with an impish grin as they prepared for the final… Continue reading Skyfall
A spire
Dark foreboding clouds dangle precariously over the waking cityscape. Dwarfed by their scale, a church spire, silhouetted against the low light of early morning, charges upward to meet them.
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Protected: The Mills’ Fiftieth Anniversary Lunch
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