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5 March 2010 0 Comments

Facebook Marketing – Groups vs Pages

Which one do you think is best for a business? Here are some pros and cons.

1 March 2010 0 Comments

Downgrading a Toshiba L300 to Windows XP

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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 [...]

30 January 2010 0 Comments

Bold When Others Are Cautious

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 [...]

29 January 2010 0 Comments

Whatever Your Hand finds to Do

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Here’s the thing… I would describe myself as someone who is continually pregnant with the plans and dreams and hopes I know God Himself has planted in me, and will bring to pass. The problem is, there is the ever-present mundane-ness of the now…
You know the deal “I’m going to change the world, [...]

28 January 2010 0 Comments

Keeping the Lights On

KLO means Keep Lights On. It’s an fairly recent term heard floating around the enterprise, it’s the process of jettisoning absolutely everything non-essential to maintain the survival of the company through extreme circumstances. My family and I aren’t in one of those situations at the moment, far from it, but if we ever where to be, what would my KLO look like?

20 January 2010 0 Comments

Skype controls 12% of all international calls – Repost

Interesting to watch this progress – the take-up of anti-monopoly solutions like Skype since the Global Financial Crisis has been incredible (until, of course, Skype becomes a monopoly itself and people move on to the next thing).

14 January 2010 0 Comments

Umm, Excuse me… You’re Sitting on a Goldmine.

Knowing something that the majority of other people don’t know means that, by definition, you are in possession of a low yield intellectual asset. Intellectual property is the very best type of product in my opinion – there’s no physical product, nothing to produce, nothing to support, nothing to break, nothing to ship.

13 January 2010 2 Comments

How to paint a door – Top first, then sides.

Random little piece of info I kind of figured out after looking at a door in a house we are renovating at the moment.
If you need to paint a door, start by painting the top and sides of the door first. Once that’s done paint the faces of the door (i.e. the flat surfaces). Painting [...]