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Podcasting Content is King
Andy Grace has a technology spot on The Cage breakfast show on Triple M in Sydney. As an aside, clever marketing kudos to the network who run The Cage in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with one lineup, but have a totally different lineup for The Cage in Brisbane Andy Grace wrote and interesting piece on…
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And then I made an Instant Film
Hot on the heels of my Rapid Filmmaking post, I attended a weekend conference where we made an instant films in teams of five and six. It was facilitated by Dimensional Thinking I don’t like being on a film set. The perfectionist in me doesn’t like the pressure to get the shot in one take,…
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Rapid Filmmaking
Roger L. Simon has a blog I monitor. In a post titled Something New in Filmmaking, he links to Truth Laid Bare‘s post about Instant Films a film festival set up in LA to make a film in 48 hours. These are short films and the festival has been going since 2002. Roger hopes the…
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Products or Services
My friends in YEO tend to be people who’ve outgrown a small business. The turnover figure doesn’t really matter, but I’ve noticed an attitudinal cycle. First entrepreneurs want to be in business. If they are early starters they may start washing cars or mowing lawns. Twentysomethings often start with a product business. Even if it…
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eBay scammers and phishing
kasia in a nutshell had the unpleasant experience of a scammer using her lovely photo of a lake to sell some land on eBay. Follow her wonderfully nasty solution via the link, As an eBay Power Seller I hate throw away bidding accounts. But throwaway scammers are worse. It would have been tempting to bid…
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Moving by July
Nella and I can no longer stand the place we live in. We moved here as a temporary rental while we looked for something we liked and the market sorted itself out. Six months to a year and we’d then buy a bargain home. Having two young kids I wanted a house and a yard.…
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Do what you love: love what you do
I’ve been thinking about what I do for a living. Larry Madill, a blogger in Los Angeles breaking into the film industry, asked inlearning curves: Now I wonder… Is that an impossible goal? Is it impossible to love what you do? Does it get so far under your own skin that eventually you get so…
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Kitchen Renovation
One of the small investment units kitchen is in a bad way. It is showing its age and the cupboard doors under the sink are water damaged. I’ll see if I can get some digital photos. The quote from the property manager’s handyman came in at $350 to supply and fit two cupboard doors! I…
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An organised life
In my Time Management post last year, I resolved to use my old Palm pilot to track my calendar. That didn’t work very well. Mainly I was jumping between two desktop computers and my laptop, while my Palm V was already 4 years old. The technology was not reliable nor flexible enough. I recently bought…
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Time Management
I’ve been a Palm user since 1999. My Palm m505 PDA has been playing up over the last few months. The digitiser is not responding. Generally it works, but then it fails at the worst possible time. Unfortunately I’ve taken to trying to remember stuff. My head is a lousy place for me to store…