The film by Jack Rath on my voyage from Europe to Australia, has just been graced with a new look. Thanks very much to Simeon @ Rimfya for his great work! Take a look at the website here. Read more – ‘New website for Between Home’.
Web hosting is one of the hardest games on the Internet. It’s full of fly-by-nighters, scammers, and fraudsters. The margins are low, the costs in Australia are exorbitant, and high quality customer support is expected, yet rarely provided. The market is full of low-end resellers, mom and pop businesses, and ridiculously oversold hardware… It’s hard. [...] Read more – ‘Web Hosting: One tough gig.’.
I regularly visit the Auction Rooms, as they are just a two minute walk from the Electron Workshop – It was nice to stumble across this short documentary on Andrew Kelly, explaining the precision of their roasting process. Read more – ‘Auction Rooms on roasting’.
RC Helicopter footage from the independence day riots in Warsaw. Really nice footage, and also really interesting to see what parts of Warsaw look like – A lot like Berlin. Read more – ‘Warsaw by helicopter’.
Our lives are reduced to the bare essentials. We are given food to eat and houses to live in, cars to drive and clothes to wear, but even these are only allowed to us on the condition that we continue to produce. This system of production and consumption necessitates that our lives become alien to [...] Read more – ‘Survival Sickness’.
Just as the current wave of American start-up companies is fuelled by programmers-turned-businessmen, the next wave of journalism needs to be fuelled by programmers-turned-journalists. More on Openwatch. Read more – ‘Rise of the hacker-journalist’.
This is the project that is taking up most of my time these days – We’re converting a 1920′s, 285sqm warehouse into a really unique co-working space for digital creators – Here is a brief blog update on our progress as of today. Read more – ‘Electron Workshop: Update’.
As more and more high quality video devices get produced at lower costs, the greater exposure we have to amazing visuals, once relegated to big budgets film studios. Hoorah. Experience Zero Gravity from Betty Wants In on Vimeo. Read more – ‘Zero Gravity’.
It’s been several years since I’ve held a real camera in my hand… But, finally I had the opportunity to do some portraits – This is one photo in a series of three, featuring track cyclist, Brendan B. Read more – ‘We Desire’.
A motorbike I sometimes work on – A lot of work to go, but it’s now back to running mode, which is encouraging. I bought this bike to commemorate my 30th birthday, as the production month and year of this Honda CX500 are the same as my own. Read more – ‘CX500 Project’.
The reason it feels like work to study for a test or solve a puzzle is because, after a certain amount of time, the brain is trying to get you to stop. This is not to say that the brain does not want you to focus, however. Studying and the like are long-term investments. But [...] Read more – ‘On willpower’.
Have you ever wondered what the US defense budget might be? Around $680 billion dollars. But lets talk about something more interesting than the North American military industrial complex – What about the clean, abundant, and wonderful energy source of the future: Nuclear fusion. By 2020, it’s hoped that scientists will be able to create [...] Read more – ‘Ultimate cleantech: Nuclear Fusion’.
The richest, happiest and most productive lives are characterized by the ability to fully engage in the challenge at hand, but also to disengage periodically and seek renewal AND Any form of stress that prompts discomfort has the potential to expand capacity – physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually – so long as it is followed [...] Read more – ‘Disengaging’.
A soothsayer calls out to Caesar as he passes and warns him against the ides of March, March 15. Caesar ignores the man and dismisses him as a dreamer. Upon seeing Cassius, Caesar informs Antony that he would rather be surrounded by men who are fat and happy than thin men like Cassius. He is [...] Read more – ‘Being thin is dangerous’.
This is fantastic: If determination is effectively the product of will and discipline, then you can become more determined by being more disciplined… In some very energetic people’s lives you see something like wing flutter, where they alternate between doing great work and doing absolutely nothing. Externally this would look a lot like bipolar disorder. [...] Read more – ‘On Determination’.
This is fun. A little open source app that pulls the triangulated position database off of your iPhone, and pulls up a nice little heat map of locations. In the last six months, this is where I’ve spent most of my time. Neat. Lear more and download the script from here. Read more – ‘Where have I been?’.
If you want to be Walmart, by all means seek venture funding: you’ll need lots of it to stand a chance at succeeding. If, on the other hand, you want to build a company guaranteed to preserve your values, fund it yourself and maintain control. You’ll own something to be truly proud of while helping [...] Read more – ‘I Enjoy’.
Knowing when to quit is twice as as hard as knowing when to push through. Ben Saunders – Open Ending from Ben Saunders on Vimeo. Read more – ‘Open Ending’.
1. Upon awakening, quit your bed at once, like discarding a useless pair of shoes. 2. In the morning, before dressing, light incense and meditate. 3. Eat at regular intervals and only to the point of satisfying hunger. 4. Retire at a regular hour. 5. Receive a guest as when you are alone. Be alone [...] Read more – ‘Some Advice’.
This post has been a long time coming. I already blog in various places around the Internet, and have done so since circa 1998 in one form or another… However something has been missing of late. When I first ‘blogged’ a decade ago, I fondly recall the word ‘blog’ did not exist, and my version [...] Read more – ‘First Post’.
