Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Personality Test

A really cool way of testing your personality is at PersonalDNA.com using really slick sliders and 2D layouts.

I’m a Free wheeling Leader apparently

And two of my children are:-
The Animated Visionary and The Cautious Director:-

So perhaps we will get a family business up and running one day althought our common thread is a low empathy!

Thanks to Erick Schonfeld at business2.blogs.com

First Skype video

Here is a still of my first video Skype call with Nick. Only problem is it seems to crash his network 🙁

Its really cool, although a biyt ‘jerky’ . I like the PIP (picture in picture) mode.

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, senior vice president of global sales and business development, sold $793 million, and Ram Shriram, a director, pocketed $442 million, according to Thomson Financial.

All very interesting especially when you read here the tricks Google are playing with their bottom line. “But since Google calls them “GSU”s instead of “stock grants” they can claim they aren’t technically breaking FASB rules by not expensing them at the time of issuance- because the FASB rules didn’t spell out the phrase “Google Stock Unit” in its new regulations. This is important because if all those GSUs were properly expensed NOW, Google would be showing massive losses per quarter instead of a profit.”

Be interesting to see how low the stock will go….


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 pageapart from its penchant for nauseating neologisms, such as “blogosphere” — is that, rather like academia, it is an incestuous community consisting mainly of people reading each other’s work, with success judged on how many links you can get to your site from people who are just as boring as you.”

Thanks to Ellee for emailing me The Times story.