This reminded me of an event that I would have liked to attend - the celebration of entrepreneurship day organised and hosted by the Strathclyde Entrepreneurial Network. This took place on Wednesday and now that I've had a chance to check out the programme I am regretting not making the time to check it out when I was within a floor of its location!

How to Start a Startup by Paul Graham:

"You need three things to create a successful startup: to start with good people, to make something customers actually want, and to spend as little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.

And that's kind of exciting, when you think about it, because all three are doable. Hard, but doable. And since a startup that succeeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies getting rich is doable too. Hard, but doable.

If there is one message I'd like to get across about startups, that's it. There is no magically difficult step that requires brilliance to solve."

Putting his money where his mouth is Paul Graham also announces the Summer Founders Program:

"In How to Start a Startup, I said there could be ten times more startups than there are. A lot of people who could start successful startups never do. When you're young the prospect seems too intimidating, and as you get older you lose the flexibility you need in your life to start one.

The most intimidating part is starting. So I decided I should offer something more encouraging than words."...

via Danny Ayers, Raw Blog The Law Enforcement and Forensic Examiner Introduction to Linux: A Beginner's Guide [PDF] by Special Agent Barry J. Grundy:

"This (sic) purpose of this document is to provide an introduction to the GNU/Linux (Linux) operating system as a forensic tool for computer crime investigators. There are better books written on the subject of Linux (by better qualified professionals), but my hope here is to provide a single document that allows a user to sit at the shell prompt (command prompt) for the first time and not be overwhelmed by a 700-page book."...

I've been proved wrong. The Vets came second in the BBC - Test The Nation quiz.. The Celebrity team won.

Team Smeed scored 50/70 (71.42%) - above the national average and just shy of the top 20% ;-)

The family are watching the BBC - Test The Nation programme just now. Two of Heather's flat-mates - Giles and Matt - are in the Vets team. No doubt the Vets team will be the most academically qualified but since the topic for tonight's quiz is "Entertainment' I confidently predict that the Vets will fare abysmally! ;-)