Earlier in the week Guy Kawasaki caused a stir within the blogosphere with his post about How to Get a Job in Silicon Valley. The biggest issue, the 1 page resume! Gretchen from Job Syntax disagrees with this particular piece of advice. So does Gautam Ghosh who provides a perspective from India, which echos muchContinue reading “Guy Kawasaki causes a stir”
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links for 2006-08-15
Getting Things Done Software Systems (Part 1 of 2) – Download Squad Part 1 of a 2 part series in GTD software. (tags: GTD productivity software) 18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work 18 tips on how to stay focused while working, ranging from email management, to having lunch at your desk (occasionally). (tags: GTDContinue reading “links for 2006-08-15”
links for 2006-08-14
Cutting the cord to analog phone – Network World While in Australia we are struggling to get above 1.5Mbps broadband the Japanese are starting to get 100Mbps for about US$36/mth!! ADSL2+ is not really the answer if we want Australia to have high quality broadband based on international standards. (tags: Australia broadband telecommunications networking)
Social bookmarking and news
Over the last few weeks I have been playing around with the different social bookmarking/news sites, specifically Digg, Reddit, Netscape and to a lesser extend Newsvine. The strange thing is I am finding them quite addictive. A quick backgrounder if you are unfamiliar with these services. Essentially users submit stories, other users vote and comment,Continue reading “Social bookmarking and news”
links for 2006-08-07
Telstra scraps broadband network plan. 07/08/2006. ABC News Online All I can say is WTF!! Australia is rapidly falling behind the rest of the world this just seems a very silly situtation for both Telstra and the Government to have ended up. (tags: Australia networking telecommunications)
Off the air for a little bit
Over the weekend we moved house and as a result we have no broadband connection at home, not the fault of People Telecom it seems Telstra is having a little trouble getting our phone connected so we can then get ADSL connected. I hope to get it all sorted in the next couple of days.
When you web enabled business process is slower/more complex than the old way
(Warning this post includes a RANT, if you are not interested just skip over it.) We are moving house this week so I am busy tidying up all the loose ends. It is just amazing to me how poorly implemented the web side of businesses are here in Australia. Part one, my broadband connection. InitiallyContinue reading “When you web enabled business process is slower/more complex than the old way”
SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM, not!
I just noticed Joel Cheesman has posted about how to stop Spam on a WordPress blog (for a history on Spam check out the Wikipedia entry). While I would agree that adding entries to you .htaccess file works it is a fairly brutal way of handling spam. I also just noticed Joel has removed trackbacksContinue reading “SPAM, lovely SPAM, wonderful SPAM, not!”
links for 2006-07-21
jobster blog: jobster employer products and pricing Jason Goldberg provides a fantastic summary of what you get when using the Employers side of Jobster. A definite read if you have anything to do with recruitment and provides a clear picture as to how they have just received another US$18mil in funding. (tags: jobs jobster recruitment)Continue reading “links for 2006-07-21”
No posts for a week or so
Once again we are going away for a few days, as such regular programming will be suspended until around 31 July. We are going skiing, at least that is the plan as right now there is not a whole lot of snow! If you feel so inclined you can watch us on the Snow CamContinue reading “No posts for a week or so”
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