Tiago Matos’ Nest

It seems, even if this blog is a non-specific blog, that a lot of people stop by to know what the hell is a Hoggett Decanter.
As I live live in Porto and love Port Wine, the explanation why this decanter is so tightly associated with Port Wine comes next:

If the port becomes forestalled at some point, it is considered poor form to ask for the decanter directly. Instead, the person seeking a refill would ask of the person who has the bottle: “Do you know the Bishop of Norwich?” (after the notoriously stingy Bishop). If the person being thus queried does not know the ritual (and so replies in the negative), the querent will remark “He’s an awfully nice fellow, but he never remembers to pass the port.”
A technical solution to the potential problem of a guest forgetting their manners and “hogging” the port can be found in a Hoggett Decanter which has a rounded bottom, which makes it impossible to put it down until it has been returned to the host, who can rest it in a specially designed wooden stand known as “the Hoggett.”

via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_wine

But I am curious, why are looking for such a thing? Are you planning to get all your friends less sober with Porto? Did you got this decanter as a present and can’t really understand how to sit it on the table?

yum install apt
vim /etc/apt/sources.list

add

rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/4/i386 core updates freshrpms
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/4/i386 tupdates
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386 core updates freshrpms

and then:

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential
sudo easy_install -U mercurial

via the mayors: http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php

via the major: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/all-i-do-is-work-here.html

K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups. A lot of them seem to want to do a million different things because other companies have been successful at one of those things in the past. But that’s a bad idea. Way too many new products and services are too complicated. And I would suggest, often fail as a direct result of that.

via Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Some quick background - almost three years ago, I walked away from a career at Microsoft to “do the start-up thing”. At the time, I had no idea what it was that I wanted to do. All I knew was that working in a large corporation was stifling my creativity and I felt like I was stagnating.

via The Age Blogs: Start Up Stories.

IBM learned, from decades of experience, that competitive advantage lay in the hardware; Bill Gates had never had those experiences, and didn’t have to unlearn them. Jerry and David at Yahoo learned, after a few short years, that search was a commodity. Sergey and Larry never knew that. Mark Cuban learned that the infrastructure required for online video made the economics of web video look a lot like TV. That memo was never circulated at YouTube.

via The (Bayesian) Advantage of Youth. Many-to-Many:.

And it’s also understandable that a whole new generation of entrepreneurs are suddenly hot on bootstrapping, too. There are only two ways to start a business, after all: with capital or without. And in these uncertain times, capital is scarce.

via Start with Nothing, Planning and Strategy Article - Inc. Article.

She makes a good point. In my 30+ years in business I’ve seen way too much of “we’ve always done it that way” and I’d like to think maybe I’m kidding myself I’ve hated that phrase since the very first time in 1971 that I encountered it. In accounting and bookkeeping, marketing, product development, it’s widespread. That’s no reason to do anything.

via Tim Berry’s Blog - Planning Startups Stories.

If you try Photoshop CS4 for a while and then buy a serial key and cannot start the app:

sudo rm /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/cache/cache.db