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It's not really about bunnies, Easter is the most important holiday in the Christian calendar & celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This holiday also has earlier origins in Pagan festivals, such as those of the Goddess Eostre, celebrating the end of winter & arrival of spring. BTW
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Here's a fascinating bit of interspecies communication (or miscommunication?) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULlsVcW5bRI&w=445&h=364]
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DoggieRescue.com is a registered NO-Kill animal rescue charity in Sydney. But they receive no government funding and they need help to stay open. DoggieRescue is committed to rescuing neglected, abused and abandoned dogs from the death rows of Sydney pounds and finding them loving homes. I've just
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At Growthtown last week I gave a brief talk on focus and flexibility and a key idea that came up was that of rabbits. Startups need balance - but it is hard to balance focus on competing needs, lack of resources, maintaining cashflow momentum, while staying flexible to respond to
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Here are the slides that I did not use for my talk at Growthtown earlier in the week - but they do give a flavour of what I actually drew on a whiteboard. Balancing Focus & Flexibility As You Growhttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=balancingfocusflexibilityasyougrow-090404092403-phpapp01&stripped_
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With their un-organised approach to management and decision making Quakers are the poster children for collaboration, collective creation and getting things done. Quakers do not have a formal hierarchy and have no single person in control of their society. It is an approach to getting things done that aligns to
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We had interesting discussions about many things last night at the ACS meeting in Wollongong. But one discussion in particular - about the use of social networking platforms in the office - really helped to clarify my position. I am getting heartily sick of the debate about whether 'young&
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Having recently seen the film, I'm now reading the comic novel Watchmen . It is the kind of fiction that really gets you thinking about many things. A great quote from the book is: The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... The solution
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March 24 is Ada Lovelace Day - and many will ask who was Ada? Ada Lovelace was one of the world's first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She was born in 1815, the
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To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day on 24 March 2009, Nick Hodge has kindly invited me to participate in his show. More details over at Nick's blog. Lord knows what we're going to talk about - but you can guarantee that between the two of us it