Archive for July, 2007

A Brilliant Idea

Published July 26, 2007 office space , private life , random ideas , sailing 4 Comments

A friend of my told me about his plans to sail around the world a while back. I suggested that instead of “just” hitting standard destinations along the route, he should visit the best surf spots around the globe.

Westcoast of Europe (UK, France, Spain, Portugal), Morocco, Canary Islands, Cap Verde, Caribean, Panama, Costa Rica, Australia, NZ…All of them are along the route most sailers take, and full of world class surf spots.

The trip would probably take 2-3 years to do. And at least 2 years of preparations. But what a trip it would be!

I wonder if he can get back to Monday mornings in the office after such a trip.

Rock’n roll Vacation, Part Deux

Published July 26, 2007 blue swede , random ideas 0 Comments

I think I’ve found a concept that would work, but right now I don’t have time to do it. Well I have time, but I spend it on other things.

What I would like to do is to arrange weekends of “jamcamps” in central London. Get 20 decent amateur musicians together for rehearsals on Saturday and Sunday, and then do live gig on Sunday night in a pub / club / restaurant. No point in sending people away to remote islands, as originally planned (thanks Demian and Oscar for good feedback).

I’ve spoken to a few companies with studios in central London and the costs for a studio is not more than 5-10 GBP / hour (including equipment). Which makes me believe that there’s a real opportunity - I’m sure the demand is there.

If I live and have the health I hope to do it one day.

Outdated Censorship

Published July 12, 2007 friends , random , social networks 0 Comments

It seems like in the world of investment banking, MySpace is still ahead of Facebook. My friends over in the city can without a problem spend hours on Facebook, throwing cakes and poking each other. But MySpace is a big no-no. This is the message they get:

“Under the current BankName Information Technology Risk standards,
http://www.myspace.com/ is considered to be in one of the following
categories: Dating/Social .

BankName does not allow access by default to “Dating/Social” websites
on the Internet.”

Come on, bankers! Noone cares about MySpace anymore anyway.

Glissers Making Friends

Published July 12, 2007 business development , friends , surf directory , swedish surfers 2 Comments

Glissers has had a good week.

First, globalsurfari.com and Gary Brewer added glissers accommodations to their global surf forecasting tool. You’ll see a list of surf accommodations close to the surf spot you selected, “powered by glissers.com”. Nice :)

Secondly, the guys at Nordsurf wrote about a nice piece about glissers, and asked their community to help out with the directory. Nordsurf is something as interesting as a Swedish producer of surf equipment, and their boards are supposed to be top quality.

More about Nordsurf and globalsurfari.com on glissers blog.

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