Musings for the entrepreneurially minded
Posted in Flying on May 28th, 2006
A number of people have asked me about details of losing pressurisation in flight at altitude. Flight crews are trained to react quickly to situations were there is a loss of presurisation. The human body relies on pressure so that the lungs can work getting oxygen out of the air and into the bloodstream. No […]
Posted in Flying on May 27th, 2006
Recently I took my kids on a tour of Sydney airport run by a company called Airside Tarmac Tours (http://www.airsidetarmactours.com/) It was all very interesting stuff driving around in a bus inside the airport perimeter fence and seeing how Australia’s busiest airport works. One thing that really amazed me was this car lot we drove […]
Posted in Flying on May 19th, 2006
Wondered why airline food is so bland and tastes like rubber? When cruising at 35,000ft the cabin altitude is at about 8,000ft. Huh? We’ll basically the higher you go the lower the air pressure gets. In fact above 10,000ft the human body starts to have issues such as a reduced level of ability for the […]
Posted in Flying on May 11th, 2006
If you are flying in economy class how are you able to get power for your laptop? Most aircraft are equipped with sockets at regular intervals amongst the seating to allow cleaning staff to power their vacuum cleaners (refer image). Laptop power supplies can fortunately handle a broad range of voltages. In fact the mentioned […]
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Life and Self on May 7th, 2006
Networking is a key element of the successful software entrepreneur. If you haven’t already done so you should subscribe to one of the major social networking apps for business on the web. Personally I use LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) and have found it easy to use and effective. LinkedIn caters to business people with both free and […]
Posted in Software on May 6th, 2006
The use of software technology is pivotal to enabling a software entrepreneur to bring their innovative product(s) to market rapidly. Below is a listing of 10 software technologies which your development team should atleast be aware of, if not integrate into your next product release. AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. AJAX enables the client to communicate with the […]