Archive for November, 2009

Scammers, Spammers & Spivs

By brendan at 25 November, 2009, 12:13 pm

I got emailed yesterday by a journalist who wanted to know about scams and dodgy websites. Basically the questions was “is there a resource you used to understand whether something was right, wrong or just a scam?”. Well there wasn’t any particular website, but if there was it would be likely to be instantly out [...]

Upgrading to MindX

By brendan at 24 November, 2009, 2:56 pm

I had coffee with Dan Dobos last week who’s been busy launching his new business, Office Autopilot in Australia, which is a wonderful web based marketing engine that combines offline and online seamlessly – eg a an enquiry from your website automatically generates a printed card that gets sent out. As an [...]

Sweat Equity & the Bee Sting

By brendan at 17 November, 2009, 7:55 am

I staked out my spot in the shade at the skateboard park. Got out my book, biscuits and water bottle and prepared for a relaxing hour while the kids went completely berserk. It seemed like only 2 minutes later when all of a sudden there was that screaming that signifies pain, as compared [...]

Innovation by walking through mud

By brendan at 6 November, 2009, 2:04 pm

Over the Melbourne Cup long weekend (yes, I know it wasn’t a real long weekend) I took my family and another family over to Lakes Entrance for four days of fun and frivolity. One of the activities we organised was a bush walk/navigation exercise through the Lake Tyers area. Although I had planned the route [...]