Archive for May, 2005

C’mon Aussie C’mon

This reference to Cameron Reilly and The Podcaster Network on Business2blog made me laugh …

where an Australian host who sounds like Crocodile Dundee interviews venture capitalists.

Anyway, its good PR for Cameron and kudos for the Aussie scene.

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80’s flashback

I was listening to a commercial radio station yesterday on my way to visit a client, and they were playing a “lunchtime of 80’s Hits” set. Why is it that in the 80’s when I was a teenager, I hated all this stuff yet now I hear it on the radio I’m into it? I also enjoy tuning into Chartbusting 80’s on C31! Is it just that I appreciate it more because of the absolute trash they play nowadays?

It’s not like I have a hankering for returning to the halcyon days of my mispent youth — this was not a particularly easy period of my life (for me or my parents!). Mmmm strange … maybe it’s because, in the words of Pink Floyd …

The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

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Full text now in feeds

For anyone with a subscription to my site … you can now get the full text in your feed! Thanks Tony for setting me on the straight and narrow!

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Web Sites built to order

Why is it that nearly every small business I come across on the web offers “Web Design” as a product/service?

I’m not going to give specific examples here… but this phenomenon borders on the bizzare. Oh look … a brain surgeon has decided to start a small business specialising in Subarachnoid hemorrhage and is offering to build web pages for a reasonable price.

Is it because there is soooo much money to be made from web design? — I don’t think so! Whatever happened to “sticking to the knitting”?

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12 different ways to think differently

Here are twelve mental ’stretching’ techniques that can enable you to think differently … via Dave Pollard’s blog:

1. Meditation
2. Reconnect With Your Senses
3. Reconnect With Your Intuition
4. Analogies and Metaphors
5. Conversations and Interviews
6. Synthesis, Distillation and Restatement
7. Reading (and Writing) Fiction
8. Psychoactive and Other Drugs
9. Learning a New Language
10. Learning Something Outside Your Comfort Zone
11. Do Impulsive and Serendipitous Things
12. Collaboration

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