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Shopping plans - Grocery & Non-perishables
I've been thinking about my shopping habits & have decided to focus on grocery & non-perishables first.
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Next generation of the web & Kevin Kelly's vision
I've been thinking a lot about the next generation of the web after reading Kevin Kelly's posts last year on the internet of things. Recently Kevin spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit and discussed some of his ideas for the future of the web. The
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List of things to simplify - finance
Thinking about things in my financial life that can be simplified or reduced: * credit cards * bank accounts * superannuation fund accounts * shopping * insurance Off to work out an action plan to simplify each of these - the goal is to make them simpler, cheaper and/or better value for money.
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Shopping plans
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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Time for some public transport
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 AND listen...
"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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First post re simplifying my life
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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Comparing the Steves (Ballmer & Jobs that is)
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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Key Themes from Gartner ITxpo 2008
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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Habit and destiny ...
"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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Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation
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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Twitter is Real Life
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