Archive for August, 2007

Family Community Experimental

After having a discussion with my daughter, I realized I didn’t really have the right words to explain the difference between “my new family” and “my old family”. My new family being the wife and kids, the old family being my Mum, Dad and siblings. Describing the people that I live with as [...]

Deploying Open Source

Normally when we go to the supermarket, my wife normally doesn’t like me unpacking the trolley at the register, in case I put things in the wrong order for the checkout chick to pack them (who would have guessed that washing powder shouldn’t be in the same bag as red meat?). So normally [...]

Quote Layout

Last week I got a quote from a caterer for a dinner I am running. A round table affair to discuss water technology. It was fairly standard fare, a word document with the bare minium of information.
The quote P*ssed me off though as it was hard to read. [...]

a date with my wife

Yesterday I met with an MBA student from Monash that I mentor. One of the topics we discussed was how to achieve work life balance. His issue is that he works around 70 hours a week as well as study. Unsurprisingly his 3 kids are starting to wonder where he lives.
I [...]

Blog Now

Blog now.

So you have been reading about blogs and your thinking about getting one going as part of your marketing plan because authentic communication is hot. So I thought I’d cover off on two really easy ways of creating a blog.

1. Go to http://www.blogger.com [...]

Blog Comment Badness

I decided to keep a record of all my Smartcompany.com.au blog postings at a website I setup called http://wordpress.l2i.com.au I used the free (that’s open source license) wordpress software on one of my servers, a quickly setup a site. No costs involved and took me around 5 minutes to get the basic [...]

Building your very own Steam Engine

I have a mental image of a large long brass tube, covered with lots of dials, hand wheels and little valves that spurt steam. That’s the business I am building. Not the Churchill Club particularly, but any business I have ever built, plus the businesses I will build in the future. This image I call [...]