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I've never really bothered to plan my shopping & have traditionally just bought whatever appealed to me on the day. But that is all about to change. I'm going to be planning my shopping from now on - checking labels and looking for good value. Any
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This week my goal is to take public transport to the city on at least 3 business days. Just been checking out the NSW government 131500 website to plan my trips. Now I just need to find a carbon reduction tracker so I can work out progress due to not
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"Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong!" -- Karl Weick The first part of this quotation is easy, it's always easy to fight as if you are right. Most of the time most of us are convinced that we are right.
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In the past I thought of frugality as a negative thing but recently I've been thinking that it would be good to simplify my life, to reduce the complexity and to also reduce my carbon footprint.
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Went to the Microsoft Liberation Day in Sydney the other day where they announced the Microsoft operating system Azure.It also gave me cause to reflect on the differing presentation styles of Steve Ballmer and Steve Jobs.Mr Ballmer has a very loud and energetic presentation style, but I came
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Have been visiting with the folks at Gartner and if they are right then the following topics will be popular next year with the corporate IT world: * cloud computing * web 2.0 * democratization of applications * consumerization of IT * green computing * the hype cycle * did I mention cloud computing & web
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"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." - Frank Outlaw These words really resonate with me as a result of a coursethat I'
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Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker presents a utilitarian slideshow on the technology and internet trends in the light of the current global financial crisis. Not exciting but worth a look if you're involved in a web business. Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentationhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/
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Some things never change. When human beings form into groups we want to ascertain who is friend and who is foe. We want to know who we can trust and to what extent we can trust them.However, until recently, face-to-face meetings were part of this assessment process. And close
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There's been a number of stories in recent times that say: Twitter is over (Yammer or FriendFeed or [insert new product name here] will replace it); Ev & Biz et al have no clue how to monetize it (so it will die a nasty death); and so, many
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THAR HAS BEEN LOLCATS 4 LOTZ DA YEERS IN R SOCIETY ... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jDfSqtG2E4&w=425&h=344] http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=
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All developers, project managers, scrum masters, product owners, or anyone who is planning on using agile within an organisation that has previously used a waterfall SDLC needs to view this talk by Mitch Lacey.In his talk from the Agile 2008 conference he shares candidly about a real life project