The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 19,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 7 sold-out performances for that many [...]

I’m spending the next few days in Kuala Lumpur for “Silicon Valley Comes to Malaysia”. It’s part of Startup Malaysia. I’ll be talking about being a ‘global startup’, and basically trying to share as much knowledge and experience as I can with the 800 entrepreneurs who were selected to attend from Malaysia. Then, I head [...]

When clouds of pain loom in the sky When a shadow of sadness flickers by When a tear finds its way to the eye When fear keeps the loneliness alive I try and console my heart Why is it that you cry? I ask This is only what life imparts These deep silences within Have [...]

Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond BY THE SPRING of this year, News International’s papers had firmly switched their support from Labour to the Tories. An avalanche of unforgiving coverage culminated on April 8, one month before the general election, in a Sun story headlined “Brown’s a Clown.” Brown’s strategists assumed that Murdoch’s motives [...]

I wasn’t nervous, til I saw the tank and the owner told me that it was natural or even good to feel nervous before entering. One thing’s for sure, these things aren’t designed by Apple. The first surreal sensations I had were that I was moving around in the tank, floating right to left, left [...]

In a word, this is freaking amazing. In case you hadn’t heard, something fairly radical has happened in the world of early-stage investing in Silicon Valley. Every Y Combinator company will receive an extra $150k investment (if they want it) on fairly generous terms, to top up the seed amounts that YC puts in. From [...]

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. [...]

I’m back in Vancouver. I had a super time in South Africa. The World Cup is definitely the biggest party in the world, and to anyone who considers themselves a football fan, I’d heavily recommend going to it at least once in your life. Brazil 2014 looks very appealing and I know people who are [...]

Naturally I was a little apprehensive about this trip to South Africa. My old passport had no blank pages and despite several grovelling emails to the Department of Home Affairs in South Africa and the airport authority in Cape Town, I would have to get a new one before entering the country. I flew in [...]