Archive for October, 2007

Broken Mother in Law

By admin at 31 October, 2007, 11:02 pm

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator.
Not very pretty is it? Consequently most people refer to URL’s as Web addresses, such as www.churchillclub.org.au Now the Churchill Club’s web address is fairly easy to remember and fairly easy to cut and paste into an email to send to someone. But sometimes we are faced with much longer [...]

Smarty Pants

By admin at 30 October, 2007, 10:31 pm

Feeling a bit philosophical today as I have been thinking about thinking. Its not normally what I write about, so I have included the words Mash-ups, Google Earth, data sets and search engines so you can’t say I have strayed too far.
To my story………
The other day I met with a senior member of the [...]

Benchmarking Web hosting

By admin at 30 October, 2007, 10:31 pm

On occasion I have a tendency to slag off website hosting providers that give shitty service. It occurred to me that this is a piecemeal approach and it would be worthwhile noting what I get for my money as a benchmark for you to think about.
Note I have two providers , one in the [...]

Control-freak@churchillclub.org.au

By admin at 30 October, 2007, 10:29 pm

So the other day a guest signed up for a Churchill Club event called “How to build a Killer Board”, which was a lunch time panel session we ran on getting your Board of Directors right. Now when he signed up, he gave his address as “churchillclub.org.au@hisdomainname.com”. (Obviously I just made up the [...]

Google Based Reconnaisance

By admin at 28 October, 2007, 11:23 pm

Just a quick snippet this week, on a what I think is a clever use of a search engine for some competitive intelligence.
So a friend rings me up and says, “this company has a job going, and if I remember rightly you know the owner”. I say “I haven’t spoken to him in [...]

Peeing on a log

By admin at 16 October, 2007, 11:24 pm

Over the school holiday’s I took the kids camping at Lakes Entrance. A great time was had by all; fishing, 4WD, going down Buchan Caves, couple of vineyards etc. But like all good things, the holiday came to an end and I’m back at work.
Going through the backlog of emails received whilst I [...]

Technology Enabled Bastard Bosses

By brendan at 15 October, 2007, 11:25 pm

To record some of the Churchill Club sessions, we decided to invest in a digital voice recorder. We purchased the Olympus WS-331M [ pls link to http://www.olympusvoice.com.au/products/digital/voice_music/ws331m.html ], which is a tiny little device capable of pickup up most speakers in a conference. While fiddling with it to determine what it can and can’t do, [...]