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A person who knows stuff, but refuses to learn stuff will not be able to adapt to a changing environment. A person who doesn’t know stuff, but is a skilled learner and possesses the wisdom to apply that learning will adapt, master, and conquer any environment. I’m talking about all areas here – technical skills, people skills, diplomacy skills, sales skills, whatever. He who can adapt, wins.

It goes very quickly, and it’s a little cheesy, but I like it. Enjoy.

Entrepreneurs can change the world from Pieterjan Vandaele on Vimeo.

I got an email today from “UPS” about a delivery problem…
Although I do regularly send parcels to the USA, I could tell straight away that the email was fake. A quick Google confirmed it.

There’s two type of search engine marketing commonly bandied around the Internet marketing water-cooler nowadays… Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Pay-Per-Click (PPC). While SEO has had a more recent rise to fame, both have their own roles to place in a Search Engine Marketing (SEM) campign…

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My boss got a new Toshiba L300 laptop for the office.
It came preinstalled with Windows Vista Basic, which presented 3 problems:
1. Vista basic cannot be joined to a domain,
2. My boss has never used Vista or Windows 7, and I decided that the transition from the interface XP to the “newer” Windows [...]

I mentioned in this post about getting a concierge service, delivered through a flat fee, through my credit card provider. Here’s an update on some of the tasks I’ve put them to in the past week:

Sourcing Adobe Creative Suite at the lowest possible price
Determining routes, pricing, and schedules for a coast to coast trek across [...]

There are SO MANY possibilities around this… especially for those of us who are full time employed and want to built our thing on the side – but don’t have the time throughout the week and like to retain some semblance of a social life. But really, ANYONE can benefit from outsourcing. Once you try it the possibilities become obvious and VERY exciting.

The irony of this issue is that it will only affect PC’s that are already infected with particular viruses. It’s disappointing that Microsoft have just yanked the patch in response though… All those who aren’t infected and would otherwise receive the benefit of the update miss out will Microsoft redesign a kernel patch to accommodate a piece of malware… go figure.

Repost from http://www.networkworld.com.
Check out this article here, it lists some of the good, bad and ugly (whilst thoroughly entertaining – think Sarah Palin) Social Media hacks of 2009. Apart from being an interesting read, this will arm you with details you need to stop it from happening to you.

NOTE: THIS POST WAS WRITTEN OCTOBER 10, 2008, WHEN THE GFC WAS ON A VERY STRONG DOWNWARDS SWING. WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT THOSE WHO HEEDED THIS FACEBOOK NOTE AT THE TIME, EXPECIALLY IN THE STOCK MARKET, WOULD BE DOING VERY WELL RIGHT NOW.
I’ve probably spent too much time watching the stock exchange and the [...]