Archive for May, 2009

Event Report – Smart Clothing

By brendan at 26 May, 2009, 4:24 pm

From the Churchill Club event on the 14th May 2009
Australian swimmers were the first to use the ultra low friction swimsuits that are now common attire. Sensors woven into clothing can communicate the heart rate of the elderly. Remote sensors such as accelerometers and environmental monitors can be picked up for as little as $20 [...]

Milestones or Millstones

By brendan at 26 May, 2009, 1:28 pm

Three times in recent weeks I have been asked the question “Is LinkedIn useful”. All three people had a service offering (lawyer, designer, facilitator) and were on LinkedIn but had less than 5 connections. My response in all three cases was “Yes, but not until you have atleast 120 connections. Reach that milestone then ask [...]

Some thoughts on climate change

By brendan at 19 May, 2009, 9:09 pm

I had coffee today with Monique Conheady of Flexicar and amongst other things we discussed Global Warming and Climate Change. Now the funny thing about talking about your ideas is that all of a sudden you have to defend what were previously whimsical musings. What’s even funnier is to write a post about them, you [...]

The Best Advice I have Received

By brendan at 19 May, 2009, 12:00 pm

Last week I wrote about the advice I would give myself if I could go back in time till when I was a fresh faced graduate. I had a couple of other ideas as well, but on reflection I realised they weren’t actually mine. They were great peices of advice that I had got from [...]

Advice I would give to myself

By brendan at 15 May, 2009, 2:14 pm

Two events last week prompted me to write this post. The first was that my wife watched some crappy movie with our daughter the other week about magically becoming young again for a while. Actually “crappy” was her word not mine, although our daughter thought it was great. The second was later that week I [...]

Event Report – The USA on Australian Technology Firms

By brendan at 12 May, 2009, 12:00 pm

From the Churchill Club Event on the 30th April 2009
Two questions were put to two Americans, and an Australian whom had just picked up $5M of investment from an American VC in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis: One – How do Americans see Australian technology firms moving into the USA, and Two – [...]

3 questions around a good idea…

By brendan at 11 May, 2009, 9:35 pm

Last week I mentioned I was going to have lunch with an old workmate Glenn to discuss an idea he been asked to get involved with. I responded to his initial email in detail about things to think about in regards to getting involved, but not whether the idea was a good one in the [...]

Some freebies for equity

By brendan at 6 May, 2009, 1:51 pm

When Glenn and I went our separate ways many years ago it was because he wanted our business to be more about lifestyle than I did. He wanted the office to have New York attic style windows and be above a coffee shop. I felt we had to keep our belts a lot tighter [...]

Remote Access update

By brendan at 4 May, 2009, 10:26 pm

Ages ago I wrote about remote access to your pc via free product called VNC. However I have just discovered that it doesn’t work as well as it used to, as the free product doesn’t work with Windows Vista. And Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection software doesn’t work with all versions of Vista (its there, just [...]