rujmah’s Dis-Collected Thoughts

Follow these quick instructions to get the full (well... greatly reduced and not-at-all-like-the-real-thing) LeWeb experience from the comfort of your own desk.

All you need is a printer, an internet connect (implied if reading this post) and a seething resentment of all those who had the cash and/or the planning to get to Le Web this year.

Step 1: Print off the picture above (courtesy of Robert Scoble) as large as you can. (If you work in an architecture office - commandeer that huge one they print out the blue prints on.)

Step 2: Carefully curl the print-out into a tube so that one end of the pic meets the other. (If you have young children this should be well within your skill-set as you would have been making a load of paper decorations over the last week or so.)

Step 3: Put on the Ustream Le Web feed and place the print-out tube over head so that your peripheral vision is filled with the picture. (The more adept may wish to cleverly construct a hat of some sort to support this.)

Optional step: Cut a hole in the picture where the front of stage is and watch the UStream feed through it.

Voilá! You have your very own Le Web experience.

Further to this, depending on your particular preconceptions of Paris - whether xenophobic or francophile - you may want to add other elements to augment the authenticity. E.g. Chew garlic, play some Django Reinhardt, drink a bottle of wine, etc.

Or you could just stop moaning and start planning and saving for next year.

By the way - if anyone actually does this, please send me pictures.

Great pic from the stage at @leweb - more on Robert's Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/scobleizer/

You could be forgiven for thinking the guy in this picture was me. Certainly share his taste for this beautiful home - but probably not his skill.

Wonderful house. Seems Steampunkin' it up is all the rage.

Top 10 Quotes
Between his books, blog, articles, and presentations, Guy is a flowing fountain of words of wisdom.  Here are my 10 favorite quotes from Guy:

1. A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.
2. Don’t worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test… Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap – but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.
3. Evangelism is selling a dream.
4. Evangelism starts with the desire to make meaning.
5. It’s a beautiful time for Entrepreneurs … Life is good.
6. Leverage your brand, … You shouldn’t let two guys in a garage eat your shorts.
7. Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
8. Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
9. You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing,
10. Shut up, take notes, summarize, regurgitate, and follow up.

Plus, a deeper examination of the 5 critical components of the new entrepreneurship:

• Create (Don’t Compete)
• Lead (Don’t Manage)
• Communicate (Don’t be Shy)
• Automate (Don’t Duplicate)
• Accelerate (Don’t Stand Still)

CopyBlogger rocks. I love this blog. Just so well written and piles of excellent articles.

Now Brian Clark's come out with this excellent ebook called How to Become an Entrepreneur - http://media.lateralaction.com/creative-entrepreneurs.pdf

The simple title hides a plethora of practical and down-to-earth advice.

File this pdf alongside Seth Godin's Bootstrappers' Bible - http://www.changethis.com/8.BootstrappersBible

See the official product site: http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os

Daniel B. Clendenin has published a list of ten warning signs that religion has turned evil. For example, “fanatical claims of absolute truth,” “identifying the Gospel with nationalistic ideologies,” and “blind obedience to totalitarian, charismatic, and authoritarian leaders.” Heavy, important reading if you’re interested in religion.

More on Religion, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islamism, and Judaism.

You have to hold down Ctrl, then double-click the gray area next to the word slides in the slides pane. Not the top title bar Slides but the second time Slides appears.

Some how managed to pull out the Slides pane in Impress (OpenOffice version of PowerPoint) and it was floating all around the place. Was really winding me up and a quick google found this article posted by Solveig Haugland in January 2006. Nearly four years ago!

Interesting for two reasons:
1) This post is still helping people 4 years on.
2) Why hasn't this been fixed yet?!

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he's tackling a knotty passage. Hilary Mantel, whose Tudor drama "Wolf Hall" claimed this year's Man Booker Prize, jumps in the shower when she gets stuck. "The number of pages I've got that are water marked, I can't tell you," Ms. Mantel said.

Great article (HT @guykawasaki - http://holykaw.alltop.com/how-to-write-a-great-novel)