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Open Books Management
I run my company with an open books policy. Staff on the payroll have a right to see the Profit and Loss statement as well as the Balance Sheet. I believe if I’m asking these guys to go on the journey with me, they have a right to know what risks we’re taking. I’ve even…
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28 Days Later
Last Friday, Nella and I saw 28 Days Later directed by Danny Boyle. This is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. I see it marketed as a horror movie but that is just plain wrong. Actually horror is correct if you use the pre-splatter film definition of the term. 28 Days Later…
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Film & TV category
Some of you know I’ve raised risk equity for feature films and independant production companies. Films and television are a passion of mine. I’ve created the Film & TV category to write about Films and TV. The category probably won’t be too investment focused. I suspect I’ll comment on interesting trends or movies/TV I see.…
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Mr. Ray: The real ‘Nemo’sis
This CNNmoney article titled Mr. Ray: The real ‘Nemo’sis reports on a $10 Million USD suit by childrens entertainer mr. Ray against Disney and Pixar. mr. Ray (the musician) has a trade mark for his stage name and is worried merchandising for the Mr. Ray character in Pixar’s movie Finding Nemo will bury him. The…
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I need links
We had over 1,000 hits in August. One of the other sites hosted on this same server has some Kawasaki Jet Ski maintenance manuals. It got over 201MB of traffic in August on 500+ hits. With zero promotion. Googlebot is your friend, but I think Jet skiers are scary people. The traffic here surprised me,…
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William Gibson has a blog!
I’m going to stretch to make that headline relevant, I don’t think I’ll succeed… William Gibson has a blog. If you dpn’t know who William Gibson is, you have a choice: one of the early leading-lights of the cyberpunk SF writing movement; an astonishing writer; go back your morning bagel, who cares?. Two out of…
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RSS excites me
I mentioned in my Using Technology post that I’m excited about RSS. RSS stands for (among other things) Really Simple Syndication. That’s an easy way for articles and news to be published in other peoples websites, weblogs, newspages and even by individuals in software called RSS feed readers or RSS news aggregators. RSS offers two…
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Recharging the batteries
I need a break. Urgently! So Nella and I were looking at a weekend away in the Hunter Valley. Then we remembered we were already going away with a group of people in a couple of weekends. So going away twice in three weeks doesn’t really work. For one I’d miss my internet connection. We…
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Chris Batten site update
I visited www.chrisbatten.com.au again tonight. Chris Batten, Tax specialist from Macquarie Street, Sydney. Chris is a smart, aggressive bloke. Actually he’s a giant. Nella did a contract for him a few years ago now, so we got to know him. A lot of the content on Chris’s site has now moved into the membership (paid)…
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Bottom end of the market
I like buying investment properties at the bottom end of the market. A step up from slum-lording, but still basic, no-frills housing. Easy to rent, cheap to maintain. Nothing glamourous. Nella and I lived in one of these when we first got married. I wouldn’t buy something I couldn’t live in. Note that’s “couldn’t” not…