Larry Page is quoted as saying, "the only true failure was not attempting the audacious." "Even if you fail at your ambitious thing, it's very hard to fail completely." I'm reading, In The Plex, How Google think, works, and shapes our lives. By Steven Levy, (I bought it on the sofa whilst watching Formula One on TV, I love my Kindle) It strikes me odd, that on this blog - … [Read more...] about A Healthy Disregard for the Impossible
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How a Cornish Charity is Helping in Japan
Shelterbox is a disaster relief charity which specialises in sending much needed emergency equipment to disaster zones. They have a great website detailing what they are about, go check it out. They have a donate button on their site by the way. … [Read more...] about How a Cornish Charity is Helping in Japan
Why I dumped Friends on Facebook
At one point I had a few thousand "friends" on Facebook, most of these were business rather than personal. Not really trusting FB to keep the separation between business and personal as solid as I would like, I have set up a new FB account for this blog. I realise you can set up fan pages and groups, but I wanted an FB account that was completely owned by Cornwall SEO and to … [Read more...] about Why I dumped Friends on Facebook
Why Stumbleupon is not Dead
A quick look around the blogosphere and there are a number of posts about Stumbleupon being dead. When what they really mean to say is, "I can't get Stumbleupon to do what I want it to do so it must be dead." There is of course an overuse of the "Dead", when it comes to describe something they think no longer works. For me dead equates the end, finality, nothing left, no … [Read more...] about Why Stumbleupon is not Dead
Inspirational Women In Business
I still firmly believe that business is unfortunately still a mans world, you only have to too peek into the board rooms of the top 100 companies to prove this. Which is absolutely nuts, as it means we are wasting a huge resource that is simply sitting there waiting to be unleashed. The argument for not having more women in business has been made redundant by the examples of … [Read more...] about Inspirational Women In Business
Because It's Not Google
Do you find it weird that BING is an acronym for, Because it's not Google. I am sure it is an odd coincidence, but the conspiracy theorist in me likes to think there is a Microsoft engineer who is laughing his ass off right now, whilst eating his Doritos and leveling his Dwarf Mage. I've been a heavy user of Google since 1998, a very happy user in fact. The big G always came … [Read more...] about Because It's Not Google