Month: February 2006
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Oops thats $5 billion gone……
John Battelle reports from Barrons that “As Google starts to spend the $5 billion it raised through two stock offerings in the past year and a half, its senior executives have aggressively sold shares. Co-founders Brin and Page have each sold more than $1.5 billion of stock. CEO Eric Schmidt sold $493 million. Omid Kordestani,…
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Oops thats $5 billion gone……
John Battelle reports from Barrons that “As Google starts to spend the $5 billion it raised through two stock offerings in the past year and a half, its senior executives have aggressively sold shares. Co-founders Brin and Page have each sold more than $1.5 billion of stock. CEO Eric Schmidt sold $493 million. Omid Kordestani,…
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Technorati Search: brrreeeport
Robert Scoble suggested, as an experiment we should all blog the expression brrreeeport to see how it travels around the world on on this technorati page. I guess it all fits in well with what Samuel Blanning of Southampton mentioned in The Times letter page “apart from its penchant for nauseating neologisms, such as “blogosphere”…
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Technorati Search: brrreeeport
Robert Scoble suggested, as an experiment we should all blog the expression brrreeeport to see how it travels around the world on on this technorati page. I guess it all fits in well with what Samuel Blanning of Southampton mentioned in The Times letter page “apart from its penchant for nauseating neologisms, such as “blogosphere”…
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Blocked drains
Well done to Anglian Water. Woke up this morning to find that when flushing the toilet the water backed right up the bowl. Ah I thought the pesky drain blocked again (at one time it was always getting blocked) so I took my trusty rods to the end of my drain (we share it with…
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Dan Hussey – English Chair Maker
Suzanne forwarded me along the web address of her chairmaker. If anyone could benefit from a good blog like English Cut did then Dan could! Just imagine a blog eulogising about the creation of an English chair made from coppiced ash. It could follow the cycle of tree management to the creation of the chair…
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Blocked drains
Well done to Anglian Water. Woke up this morning to find that when flushing the toilet the water backed right up the bowl. Ah I thought the pesky drain blocked again (at one time it was always getting blocked) so I took my trusty rods to the end of my drain (we share it with…
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Dan Hussey – English Chair Maker
Suzanne forwarded me along the web address of her chairmaker. If anyone could benefit from a good blog like English Cut did then Dan could! Just imagine a blog eulogising about the creation of an English chair made from coppiced ash. It could follow the cycle of tree management to the creation of the chair…
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Tuesdays
What is so special about Tuesdays? Why does everyone seem to want to organise events for Tuesday evenings! Tomorrow night I have the choice, in Cambridge UK, of the following events:- CHASE Postwatch – The postal services – Tue 7th Feb, Meet first Tuesday in every monthCFEL David Cleevely (Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of Analysys)…
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Naked Conversations
Arrived home, in the UK, from LIFT06 to discover that Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book has arrived, delivered from Amazon, Frankfurt, Germany. Pity it didnt arrive before LIFT as it would have been good to get it signed by Robert. Now just need to read it and see how it compares to their original…