Archive for December, 2005

Happy Festivus

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

I just wanted to take a moment to wish readers of the Profits Guru Blog a Happy Festivus!
What is Festivus?!?!
Festivus is the perfect antidote to Christmas - and might just be the next big thing!
It is basically a nondenominational holiday featured in an episode of the TV show Seinfeld.
According to Seinfeld, Festivus is celebrated each […]

Walkman inventor Andreas Pavel

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The New York Times carried an article on the inventor of the Walkman, last week.
Walkman inventor Andreas Pavel first tested his invention in 1972 and spent considerable time and effort trying to sell his idea to companies including Grundig, Philips, Yamaha and ITT. However, his prototype was rejected repeatedly.
When Sony started building a […]

Tim Berners-Lee Has A Blog

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

The inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, has now started blogging .
He writes that future postings will be ‘geeky semantic web stuff mostly’.
This blog is likely to be very popular. His first post was inundated by peoples comments and reached a total of 455 overwhelmingly positive comments before the facility had to be […]