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Under attack…

I love hackers, especially code hackers, but I hate crackers.
My servers are being bombarded by break-in attempts – none successful so far as far as I can tell – but it’s putting an unnecessary burden on my network right now. I’ve taken some preventive measures, but if this persists, I might have to take my [...]

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    • Personal analytics (or: I just got me a Withings scale!)

    I just bought a body scale from Withings. For those of you who have never heard of it, it’s a wi-fi connected scale, meaning that whenever I (or someone in my house for that matter) step on the scale, it automatically transmits my weight and body fat mass. My wife thinks it’s a total waste [...]

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    • You can do better Starbucks!

    Last week a friend of mine told me that you could buy stuff (i.e. in my mind: coffee) from Starbucks with their new mobile application. I was initially skeptical since I had already downloaded a Starbucks app on my iPhone which didn’t seem to allow that. But I was also curious, so I went to [...]

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    • Know what you want and don’t ask for a meeting

    I just discovered a very good blog by Naval Ravikant (how did I miss that one for so long?!?) and his latest post on meetings is, oh, so on target!
    When I worked at Google (yup, news break, I left), I got lots of these requests from potential partners, startups, and entrepreneurs, and not because I’m [...]

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    • The wonderful world of Kindle…s

    I love reading books. All sorts of books; biographies, fiction, historical, informative, non-informative, etc, etc. But the problem has always been that I just can’t find time to read all those books. And that’s why I bought the Kindle device… or so I thought.
    At first, I was really amazed by the Kindle device, and loved [...]

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    • I’m never doing business with Siemens [rant]

    Newspapers struggle to get revenues these days, especially online. I empathize with their situation, and know that there are real jobs at stake and lifestyles to preserve. But it seems that some online publications confuse that situation with a license to screw over the user experience, and don’t understand that it hurts them and it [...]

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  • Wrong person in the wrong place: how experience can help you innovate

    If you ask anyone here in the Silicon Valley whether age matters when it comes to starting a company, a lot of people will tell you that young people have a better chance at getting something off the ground. In fact, at the start of this year I went to an MIT event where Doug [...]

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  • One task finished today is better than ten pending tomorrow

    Yesterday I was the super man of productivity. No, I didn’t leave the house to isolate myself from the rest of the world. No, I didn’t feel particularly energetic. I simply had planned the day with some concrete things to work on, and spent about half the day trying to get these things done. Many [...]

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  • My 5 favorite iPhone apps

    It’s true, I still use an iPhone (although the Nexus One is my primary phone, and I love it!). When it come to discussing apps on mobile, my natural inclination is to focus on how many crap apps there are out there (and most of them are crap, even if the idea might be good, [...]

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  • The movie industry just doesn’t get their customers…

    With the birth of my daughter Emma Kara about a month ago (now you know why I haven’t been blogging :) ), my wife and I decided to sign up again for NetFlix. Since we used to subscribe, we knew the convenience of getting our favorite new releases every Wednesday morning by mail, and now [...]

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