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My Wife is an Ecosexual...

gianpaolo — Fri, 18 May 2007 21:08:18 GMT

I was browsing through Wired Magazine earlier this morning and I discovered that my wife is an ecosexual... Cool!

P.S.
for some reason, I think this blog post will have more views than average :)

I also had a joke relating ecosexual and SaaS but I'll keep it for my next presentation at a conference

Not a SaaS related post

gianpaolo — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 02:28:00 GMT

As a "dotcom refugee" I can related to many of these points... very nice.

From onstartups.com (orginal post here)

17 Pithy Insights For Startup Founders

Seek transparency and understanding with your partners early. Issues get harder as time passes
Startup founders work long hours for a reason. There’s more work than there are people. If you’re seeking balance, seek it elsewhere.
Bad customers will drain you of passion. Really bad customers will drain you of both passion and profits. Unfortunately, most bad customers will degenerate into really bad customers if you don’t do something about it.
If you’re changing direction often, worry a little. If you’re changing people often, worry a lot.
It’s lonely at the top, but even lonelier at the bottom. In the early days of a startup, hardly anyone wants to talk to you (except some desperate vendors).
Eventually, your product will need to work and do something useful. No amount of marketing or strategy will get you around this.
At the end of each day, ask yourself: “Did the product get better for customers today?”. If you don’t have a good answer, stay up until you do.
Until you are profitable, time is working against you. Once you are profitable, time is on your side.
Learn to take calculated risks. The market rarely rewards safe bets.
To improve the quality of your output, improve the quality if your inputs. Read, converse and connect with the right people.
Force yourself to write, as it will force you to think.
At least once every year or so, your startup will almost die.
The problem you solve should be ugly. The solution you build should be beautiful.
Even the most successful startup ideas had 100 reasons not to pursue them. There is no perfect idea.
If the pain doesn’t kill you, it just hurts a lot.
You choose your destiny, because you choose your team.
Be who you are. Do what you love. Join people you like.

Blogging from Word 2007

gianpaolo — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:53:00 GMT

I installed Office 2007 beta 2 today… I’ve primarily been playing with Outlook 2007 and PowerPoint 2007… then just before going to bed I decided to have a quick look at Word 2007 and I saw a blog post ribbon!

Now I can blog from within Word, how cool is that!

I did a quick MSN Search on the feature and I found this post giving all the details.

BTW: if you go here you can “Register Now” for being notified when Office 12 beta 2 will be publicly available, which, if my information is correct should be veeery soon now.

Hava Data Will Travel (don't ask me, ask Roger)

gianpaolo — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:57:00 GMT

If you have been reading my recent posts, you must have noticed that I have been talking about data. Well, the person who knows the most about data that I know, has started blogging. Cool!

Here is a post discussing when and where you should be considering SQL Service Broker.

In Roger's words:

One of the most frequently asked questions I get when talking about Service Broker is how does it fit with the other messaging products that Microsoft has. Specifically, I hear a lot about MSMQ, WCF (Indigo) and BizTalk. In this post, I will try to clarify the scenarios where Service Broker is the right solution and the scenarios where one of the other products is a better fit.

enjoy!