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 [...]
Read More >>Super8 living forever
By brendan at 3 August, 2009, 12:11 pm
One of the things I find terrific about being alive today is that we can actually see what people whom are no longer in their prime or have passed away, were actually like. Not just movie stars, but old documentary footage of leaders such as Churchill and Kennedy. We also get to see old home [...]
Read More >>Cloud Money
By brendan at 5 November, 2008, 1:40 pm
In 1998 I stopped getting paid to be an Accountant. I came to the conclusion that being a scorekeeper wasn’t satisfying enough for me, I want to be kicking goals, not cheering from the sideline. I called it – Getting in touch with my inner salesman.
I said “stopped getting paid” rather than [...]
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 >>Who can you trust?
By brendan at 7 July, 2008, 3:42 pm
The other week I caught up with one of my brothers for lunch, and as per usual we spent a while character assassinating members of the extended family, before moving on to the main topic of the day which was expert advice. My brothers position that was that business is simply too complex and you [...]
Read More >>Membership Options
By brendan at 4 September, 2007, 6:36 pm
Does it date me to say “What Cheeses me off”?
So the other day I want to edit some audio files I have recorded on the new Digital Voice recorder (sweet gadget but I will deal with that another day). Basically I just want to chop the files up into the separate speeches. Peter [...]
Deploying Open Source
By brendan at 26 August, 2007, 8:50 pm
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 [...]
Read More >>Open Sauce
By brendan at 16 May, 2007, 4:44 am
When I moved out of home I basically lived on pies, pizzas and takeaways. At the end of the first year, a friend of mine, Stewart, moved in and pointed out that he suspected that the black slime at the bottom of a cupboard had started life as a potato. I wanted to argue against [...]
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