Copacetic

Dontcha just love external validation. Robert Sutton also believes in firing the Asshole (see rule 9).

Blog Maverick gives some plausible background information to the Google/YouTube deal. Excellent analysis of the timing of the music deal with the acquisition.

 I know, I know, I’m a corporate shill,  but I liked this sony advert.

Google plays a running defense. Now I don’t want to see a goddamn soul say Xerox or Rollerblades, do you hear!

I’ve used Google’s new Custom Search Engine feature to create a first pass at a Web 2.0 Search Engine for Irish companies. Any can contribute to make it better, so please do.

Its also in the sidebar of this blog.

From Cool Tools, animated lessons on how to tie all kinds of knots. This site is so much better than those utterly useless static diagrams in most sailing books. Using different colour ropes really helps as well.

Here’s a video of the GooglePlex’s in a container that Robert Cringely wrote about some time ago. 

S3 is a cool virtual disk service provided by Amazon. Unfortunately its only accessible via an API so mere mortals don’t get a lookin. Thankfully Jeremy Zawodny has compiled a list of list of backup tools that will give you access to the service.

S3 is priced at 0.15 USD per GB per month and 0.20 USD per GB of bandwidth consumed.

Darren drew my attention to an essay by Paul Graham entitled “The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups“. Its a pretty good list but of course it could just as easily be entitled “The 18 mistakes that kill companies”. The only difference is that when big companies (DEC, Data General, Compaq, Symbolics, Thinking Machines, ICL) make these mistakes, death is long and lingering rather than short and sharp.

More sanctimonious rubbish from our moral guardians at the IEDR.

Dev would be proud.