Archive for October, 2008
Finding Free Time
By brendan at 28 October, 2008, 2:12 pm
A couple of weeks ago I had a panel at the Churchill Club talking about the differences between Exporters and Global Operators. One of the speakers was Simon Baker (he was great), recently of REA Group who had bought multiple on-line real estate operations while building REA into a global [...]
Read More >>Skinning Cats on the Internet
By brendan at 14 October, 2008, 6:15 pm
After email and web browsing, the number one tool I use on the computer would have to be the standard office suite. You know; Word, Excel, Powerpoint. But if you have read any of the previous weeks blogs, you would also know that I have just moved over to a Linux based Netbook . [...]
Read More >>Newslettah!
By brendan at 13 October, 2008, 5:31 pm
2000 I was running a multimedia business called Carradale Associates and had the opportunity to vend it into a new IT support business. I pretty much let all the contractors I was employing go, other than the oldest one who I really wanted to look after. Unfortunately he and I had a difference of opinion. [...]
Read More >>Moving email into the cloud
By brendan at 7 October, 2008, 12:45 pm
Last week I advised that I had decided to try out a netbook as a replacement for my dying notebook. And to make things a little more interesting, try it with a Linux based operating system rather than my usual Microsoft Windows. (Note – The notebook has now died – bugger)
The rationale is [...]
