Month: March 2010

I’m sick of facebook being so successful so I planning to set up my own competing website called facebeard. If you have a beard you can friend other people with beards.  There may not be a huge uptake in the female community and those that do may be a bit rough, but at least the concept is there.  Where do I get VC money from?

Ricky Martin came out today as being 38, who would have known.

I was amused/delighted to see flickr had posted some then and now for St Patrick’s day using the library of congress public domain images as the then.  I had a look through and they only had 3/4 so I decided to track down a few more:

Valentia Island in Kerry

Thanks to : bubba2tish

Blackrock Castle in Cork

Thanks to: despod

Thank you Red October

Update:

I don’t know why but this is my most clicked page, who are you people and why do you keep searching for nu par ruski?

There’s a cool T-Shirt over on teefury today, you’ve got 24 hours to get it

There is an article over on network world covering how it has been 10 years since the top of the dot-com bubble when the NASDAQ reached 5,133. This was an interesting time for me as I was working in the states with a big tech company, boring chip design. However you would get calls from friends or friends of friends suggesting you might want to invest in this new startup that is going IPO, wink wink. It was all crazy, pets.com, garden.com, flooz, well at least Whoopi Goldberg career survived that one. Here are a few reasons why they thought the bubble could go on forever :

• It’s okay to sell products for less than what they cost you, because that will bring you lots of customers.
• Internet-based companies are immune to economic cycles.
• Internet companies can’t spend too much on advertising.
• Internet companies that carry no inventory are infinitely profitable.

Surely we can’t be that stupid to do it all over again….