Archive for the 'Working Smart' Category

Does the food you eat affect the quality of your thinking?

I’m an avid reader of Steve Pavlina’s Blog, and an entry I was reading today, got me thinking.. I just had to post a response.
Steve Pavlina, for those of you who’ve never heard of him, is a Personal Development Innovater, who through his blog, and website is sharing his experiences with the world, with regards […]

NetTuesday Help’s Londoners Find Their Blogging Voice

Net Tuesday, November, stirring the Non-Profit Tech Community in London

Amy Sample Ward, the new Community Builder at NetSquared, which is a community for non-profit techies (and also a project of TechSoup Global), came to London, in September 2008. With her experience, and background, in supporting and nurturing the non-profit tech community in the US, she […]

Summary of Benefits of Wordpress

I’m going to be part of the team advocating WordPress tonight, as a blogging platform of choice,  and pulled together some brief notes on what makes WordPress so great.
Would love to hear your thoughts, on why you prefer WordPress over other blogging platforms, and also, a link to your WP blog, would be appreciated.
If you happen […]

Crowdsourced Obama to Win US Election! - Internet Predictions…

So, the US presidential elections are a hot topic, no doubt.. It seems I couldn’t avoid them, thanks to my colleage at work, who streamed the debates, and news from the US elections, into the office, each and every day!! Thanks Greg :)  As much as I wanted nothing better than to ignore it, like […]

Personal Development for Smart People Weaving into a New Dream for the Modern World

So, I’ve recently been reading Personal Development for Smart People, being an avid follower of Steve Pavlina, and having just finished the book.. I’ve found myself having experienced a real roller coaster of a ride.
Not least, because of how self-reflective the book is, and how it forces you to examine your life, from so many […]

LinkedIn grabs Huddle, as the first European startup to be integrated into OpenSocial Apps

LinkedIn has recently made the move from being just a network tool, to adding applications to the platform.  Much akin to the Applications, now a mainstay of the Facebook platform, and long seen as a way for developers to infiltrate the existing trust networks that exist on the inside of Online Social Networks, LinkedIn, has […]

Troubleshooting an SBS Server’s network connection

So, this is the second time in a row, that our SBS Windows Server has caused trouble.. It decided to just die, over the weekend, and upon returning to the office this morning, and after doing much troubleshooting, and checking, I decided the fact that I couldn’t reach the firewall, because of IPNat.sys and that […]

Twitter Breaks Down the Walls of Corporate America

Imagine you could talk directly to the CEO of a company, whose service you use on a daily basis.  Imagine your ideas, suggestions, feedback and criticisms reaching the guy at the top directly.  More importantly, imagine being able to join in the conversation, and listen in on the thoughts of the person steering the company.  […]

Imagining a Future Before It Has Happened

Life has a funny way of showing up sometimes..
I was browsing Steve Pavlina’s blog, and happened across an interesting article, that talks about  how we can imagine things in the future, before they have even happened.  And how that worry, and regret, for something that hasn’t occurred takes us out of the present moment, and […]

Google - Too Big to Keep It’s Promise? Chrome “Launched” But Nowhere To Be Found

It seems the blogosphere is awash with talk of Google Chrome, a browser that Google is launching.. Though, according to their Blog, it was meant to be available across the world today..
“We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.”
9/01/2008 02:10:00 PM [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html]

Though at present, there seems to […]