Author: Paul

  • World on Fire

    A while ago I came across a music video by Sarah McLachlan called "World on Fire".  The music video was available through the iTunes Music Store and I watched it mainly because there isn’t much else I can access from the iTunes Music Store because South Africa doesn’t have access to that content yet.  What…

  • Financial advice to bloggers, by bloggers … and other interesting stories

    I am a bit behind with most of the 80 feeds on my Newsgator (yes, I know that is light reading for most of you).  I am working through old Problogger posts and here are a couple interesting posts for you (thought it best to give you a summary rather than a bunch of separate…

  • Growing a small tech business in South Africa

    I have a small business of my own that launched in October 2004.  When I started working on it in about June or July 2004 I was so excited about it.  After a fair sized payment to my web developer we got it off the ground and I soon had my first subscribers.  In the…

  • Pretty and smutty?

    I came across a very interesting site called "Pretty Smut".  I linked to it from Lisa LeDemure’s site.  As you can imagine, the site has sexual content although not in the sense of the huge majority of adult sites.  The images on the site are fairly provocative and nicely done.  I don’t know the names…

  • Mark Jen and the mountain

    One of my favourite fired bloggers, Mark Jen, has posted some pictures from his recent trip to Seattle.  His photo’s of his hike up Mount Seattle (I am not familiar with city abbreviations so I assume ‘si’ is a reference to Seattle) are spectacular.  His Flickr photoset is even more impressive and it is also…

  • Yahoo! in the mix

    I just noticed that Yahoo! Search Blog runs on MovableType.  Pretty cool, I think.  Especially in light of recent developments.

  • Feeds on Yahoo! Mobile

    Users of Yahoo! Mobile will be pleased to know that they can now access their RSS feeds on their mobile phones.

  • Yahoo! buys Flickr and I only found out now!

    Well all the rumours are true!  Caterina Fake over at Flickr announced that Yahoo! has bought Flickr (I only found out a few minutes ago): Holy smokes, SOMEBODY out there is bad at keeping secrets!!  Yes! We can finally confirm that Yahoo has made a definitive agreement to acquire Flickr and us, Ludicorp. Smack the…