Simon’s Blog

It’s been obvious to many observers that, over the last decade, standards in our universities have been declining. However, it comes to something when Professors of Thermodynamics believe that the theory of evolution must be wrong, because it violates the Second Law.
I am genuinely shocked. This is the kind of stuff I would […]

Steve Gillmor has a problem. Me. Not really. But, I read his blog today oh boy…
I have to confess, I enjoy Steve’s writing, even though I find it really hard to understand… (I know I’m not the only one). Anyway, I think I got some of it after three or four readings. […]

It’s funny. Just a couple of days ago, I was reading a post on Scoble’s blog, entitled - Google, The World’s Largest Startup? The post was all about Google APIs and widgets, and how great they are. The comments section made for some interesting reading, especially comment #7 from Google’s Mark Lucovsky. […]

Well, I did some digging. This blog entry by Chris Adamson seems to sum things up.
Seems that the folks behind Java on Blu-ray (BD-J) aren’t yet serious about developers. The Blu-ray platform won’t get close to being optimally exploited until that changes…

Java will be embedded into every Blu-ray player on the market, and that includes Sony’s PS3 gaming console. That means, over the next five years, Java-enabled (Java ME CDC) devices will very likely be connected to well over a hundred million TV sets around the world. The question is: what kind of opportunities […]

One of the things we do is help companies be really smart about their IT strategy and operations. In this business area, we like to partner with companies that see IT not as a cost centre, but as a competitive weapon. How do you use IT as a competitive weapon? There are […]

CNN Money had some fun asking some top-tier VCs whey they’d like to invest in. Collectively, there was an imaginary $100M on the table. It makes for interesting reading - it’s not often you get a cross section of what’s at the top of a diverse set of VC minds.
I was particularly interested […]

Are you an entrepreneur? Do you watch ScobleShow? If not, maybe you should. Here’s why.
I guess you know the most valuable thing about attending conferences isn’t hearing the (same old, same old) talks from the same old, same old people. Nope. It’s the conversations that take place off-line that are really useful. […]

So… you’ve probably seen that Yahoo! and Google uber-bloggers Jeremy Zawodny and Matt Cutts have got caught up in a “who copied who” war of words, when talking about the design download pages for the companies’s respective IE7 browser toolbars, bundled with the IE7 browser. See Jeremy’s original post, and Matt’s follow-up.
I think all […]

So, you’ve seen the news - Sun Microsystems has just released Java SE 6, and you’ve installed it.
Now, with Java 6 installed, you want to see how it runs. So, how about a simple “Hello World” applet? Feel free to try this one. It doesn’t do anything interesting - it’s just a test. […]