New Word of the Week: Scotoma
Last week I wrote about the word Monocarpic which means to bloom once and then die. How sad. This week I heard someone use the term ‘Scotoma’. I decided to look into it because it is a nice illustration of a common Entrepreneurs problem. But first: Scotoma An area of diminished vision within the visual field. You might not know it but everyone has a Blind Spot, which is the popular name for Scotoma. Your eyes don’t actually see everything in front of you. There is a black spot somewhere but your brain fills in that gap for...
read moreAuction Ads – Link to eBay auctions and make some money?
You may have noticed a bit of new content in my blog sidebar. I’m experimenting with a couple of new services which have been launched recently. One is the Auction Ads service pictured here. Auction Ads displays ads to eBay articles on your blog similar to Amazon does with their widget. I don’t think I will make ANY money on this but I like the idea and will try it for a month or so just to see if it works for people. So far I am getting a click through rate of almost 3% which isn’t bad at all for an ad. Check out...
read moreBoris & Faye or Maria & Sith Lord?
My ears hurt and I can’t hear very well. My head is buzzing and I’m cold and shivering. Faye is keeping me company on the couch and when she noticed I was wearing my bathrobe she went looking for hers. Now we are enjoying ourselves with my Blackberry Pearl camera (the onyl Camera I have left besides my iSight) and my new Blackberry 8800. I feel better already! Ah, and Tessa is back from Boston since this morning and went ut to buy french fries together with Loïs. Not the most nutricious dinner but I don’t feel like...
read moreMy photo of Michael Arrington on Valleywag
Valleywag posted a short blog about Michael Arrington and used a photo I made as an illustration. More important: they gave me full credit by adding my name + a link to my Flickr account. Michael Arrington’s Razor-sharp Wit – Valleywag Nice… The photo was made at the Techcrunch party in New York right at the very second Michael launched Fleck.com by pressing one button. The reason he laughs is because we displayed a huge error on the Blackberry that suggested everything crashed at the...
read moreNew Gadget Day!
Today I’m expecting TWO new gadgets to arrive!!! Ahh, I love the smell of a new gadget in the morning*. The first is the ExpressCard 5-1 reader I wrote about before. I bought two: one for myself and one for Guido van Nispen. It slides into my MacBook Pro and accepts 5 different memory cards. No more cables! Just slide in the memory stick from your digital camera and download photos. What a relief. The other gadget is the new Blackberry 8800. A friend offered to send me one after I complained about the Blackberry Pearl. He even told me he...
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