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I love the ride I’m on. I love what I’m learning, I love the success of it, I love the people I’m doing it with, I love the feeling or being a part of building something significant… Except for when its boring. Or I lose. Or the people I’m doing it with just don’t quite “get it”, or there are what seems to be insurmountable roadblocks.

Then what do you do?

I often get puzzled looking people, some who know me quite well (including, occasionally, my wife) looking at me quizzically and asking: So what is it you are actually doing at the moment?
So here’s the February update. I write this as much for myself as anyone who is interested to read it.
1) Tall Poppy Solutions [...]

Steve Jobs is on record saying that “the world is going to HTML5″. Interesting to pick up from the NY Times article the reports of sudden influxes of people requesting Vimeo (a video sharing site and competitor to Youtube) to support HTML5 encoding. Why do you think that is? I’d suggest that it’s because those who have asked for the changes either own, plan to own, or are targeting their content towards Apple Mobile users.

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?

Quick thought… I’m the kind of person who is very quick to start working out contingency plans if a dream, goal, task or venture or mine doesn’t seem to be panning out.
When bumps in the road come, my mind spawns a whole range of Plan B’s, way that I can change tack and either recover [...]

I am still working through the full story of what God is trying to say to me personally through this passage, but my encouragement I’ve taken from it so far is this: God’s provision is not something we need to rack our brains for, to strive and stress and struggle to find “that one good idea” that will set us up for life and provide provision for the Kingdom.

Here where things are up to at the moment, and a brief look in to where they are headed.
The group has three business units which are currently active in different forms.
1. Tall Poppy Solutions: The business solutions development unit. This was originally set up to serve Tall Poppy Online, but has taken on a bit [...]