End of Quetag Blogger

Well Blogger has decided to stop supporting FTP publishing and this has forced me to update and move to a new format. Sorry to see the old format go, but hope the new one is as good.
All archived links remain, however all new posts are here.

Blog traffic – From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned

Just stumbled on this article. Very interesting.
I would agree on the keywords in headlines and twitter being important.

I think having a blog on blogging (or making money from Adsense!) are also key topics people really search for online. Interesting.


Blog traffic – From 0 to 200.000 visitors, 8 blogging lessons learned

The rise of asian cool

With all the turmoil in the markets and the downturn in N America, is there a fundamental change underway. Is the balance of economic power moving from N America (as it did from Europe) to Asia.

We should expect other changes, not just economic, such as fashion and
trends will move too. Asian design will become trendy, pop music will
lead from asia as will design. I think you are already seeing some of
this in car styling.

The demographics, young population and shear weight of numbers make this
inevitable.

Watch out for this on the highstreet.

Return from the cloud

So I tried it. Moving all my documents to the cloud. Google documents or Zoho.
Not sure it has been a huge success. I do not think cloud computing is ready yet for prime time.

• Word documents were ok, but the formating was tricky.
• Excel Spreadsheets were slow and harder to edit, and the final straw was the size seemed to be limited.

In summary, ok for notes and quick documents, but not yet ready for primetime.
I do like the way dropbox works however. This is a local version of the file, but sync'd across all your computers. This works well (but too expensive still for a main drive).

So am now on a hybrid strategy, Google Doc's, dropbox and local backups.

Google wave setup

hooray, have finally been able to get a wave invite (and thank you very much to that person, it is much appreciated).
Will be finding out more about it now.

More fun with Maths

Say to your friend, "Pick two numbers, both of them less than 10."

Then say, "Choose either one of those numbers and multiply it by 5."

Then, "Add 7."

Then, "Multiply the result by 2."

Then, "Add that number to the other number that you picked initially."

Finally, you ask, "What's your answer?"

Knowing that, you can now tell your friend the two numbers he originally chose, and also the one he started with and multiplied by 5.

Here's how: From your friend's final result, you subtract 14. That gives you a two-digit number made up of the two numbers your friend initially selected. The left-hand digit is the number he started with and the other number multiplied by 5. (ie divide the number by 5 to find out)

New Domain Launched

Got the new domain launched tonight. All a big experiment really.

Camel problem

An Arabic man is riding a camel across a desert expanse, when he encounters a novel sight. Three young Arabic men are fiercely arguing, surrounded by 17 camels. Dismounting, the stranger was told the problem. Their father had died, leaving (as their only real inheritance) these 17 camels. Now, the eldest son was to receive half of the camels; the second son, one-third of the camels; the youngest son, one-ninth of the camels. Problem: how could they thus divide the 17 camels?

The stranger adjoined his camel to the collection, making it 18 camels>. Then, the stranger apportioned 9 (= 1/2(18)) camels to the eldest son; 6 (= 1/3(18)) camels to the 2nd son; 2 (= 1/9(18)) camels to the youngest son. Having solved the problem and assuaged their argument, the stranger mounted his own camel and rode away.

Raffi Sheet Music

I have been looking for Raffi sheet music to play along.

One option is the book.

However I have just found lots of his sheet music on his site.

Have fun, in case you were looking for this too.

3 men rent a room for $30

Here's another one;

Three men rent a hotel room. Each pays $10 for a total of $30 spent on the room. The next day the hotel owner tells the three men that they over paid for the room as it only costs $25. The three men tell the owner to give them each a dollar back and he can keep two dollars.

If you do the math, each man paid $9 a piece for the room for a total of $27. The owner kept $2 which brings the total to $29.

The question is where did the other dollar go?