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Motivated
I was driving into the office today. Given it’s a 50km trip each way, I usually either listen to a talk on tape (or cd) or I drive and think in silence. I actually like the thinking time. I was pondering why I’m struggling with myself to get to the office. Sure a 100km communte…
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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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3am Phone conference
It’s 4am and I’ve just finished a seminar in the US. The subject is What’s New in Marketing. Interestingly I attended via international phone conference while following the Powerpoint presentation on the web. I was dialled into the conference via a phone card for the first half. At 2cents per minute it’s a hard to…
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Comment spam
Since the upgrade to WordPress 1.5 I’ve lost my usual comment spam filters. Until I get caught up there is a risk your comment may be lost in the noise. If it doesn’t show up within a day please email me and I’ll try to resurrect it.
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Check your website
As this is my personal blog I don’t regularly do health checks on it. A health check includes clicking every link and interactive step on the process. If you run a business with an online presence this is an essential regular step. Don’t wait for the log entries to alert you, and most users wont…
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Upgrade to WordPress 1.5
WordPress, the software running this blog, was upgraded to version 1.5 That’s fantastic news as the new features look exciting. However the template system changes are non-trivial. After breaking it, I found these WordPress Upgrading 1.2 to 1.5 Instructions which got everything working properly again. It is a bit tricky – it isn’t obvious that…
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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…