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The state of your knowledge

September 20, 2009 – 11:56 pm

I just can’t sleep tonight, I can’t make it happen.  It’s 4 hours since I went to bed and this must be the third time I’ve turned on the light to do somethign because I’m bored.  It’s also ages since I posted, time to write again.
Donald Rumsfelt, the eejit who seemed to be very must [...]

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So long, farewell and goodnight

March 1, 2009 – 11:01 am

I’m bored of having marketing messages yelled at me via my inbox with giant image only emails demanding I click on things to get full details.  So I am going through my inbox unsubscribing from all the sales mail subscriptions that I get.  Some notes on how hard it is to actually unsubscribe…

STA Travel – [...]

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Some brilliant advice

February 26, 2009 – 7:31 pm

During these troubled times, lots of companies will try and “do something new” to make more money.  There’s nothing wrong with this (so long as you do it well), but I like this…
Set your goals and don’t suck.  Eg. Stop trying to be everything to every man, and be everything to somebody.

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10 minutes of INC causes revelation

February 15, 2009 – 8:32 pm

I’ve just had a bath, and a very large gin, and whilst sitting there reading INC magazine, I ran across some words on mangement styles which seem extreamly obvious, but extreamly useful.
On the subject of managing your staff, “Trust, and verify”.  Now this at first is super obvious, but I’d never through about it.  If you [...]

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Money – the root of all evil?

January 25, 2009 – 11:58 pm

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Well, it would appear that the UK is perma-fucked when it comes to all things economic at the moment. Those heady days of rising house prices making you more money that your job earned you are over, and cheap trips to the USA to do a bit of shopping [...]

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