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Entries for August, 2008

inflation

Inflation effects everyone.
I was in Sydney recently for the CeBIT convention.  I got off the train at Circular Quay station and made my way down the escalator.  As i stepped off the escalator a small kind looking, obviously homeless Asian woman came up to me.
She tugged on the sleeve of my jacket.  “Excuse me sir, [...]

sheep

My family on my fathers side have a rich (well, not so rich these days) heritage in farming in western NSW.  His uncle Leo still runs a sheep station in the middle of nowhere.
Leo walks around his bit of land, grumbles to himself and is constantly calling his sheep “dumb animals”.
What does he expect? They’re [...]

buy now, pay later

We have tried a lot of different stuff in terms of marketing.
Our company sells advertising space to people that have their business for sale, and we are constantly changing our strategy to find the most effective way to sell to these people.
Its a tough market to sell to.  I mean, they are going out of [...]

Idea Communism

This is my first post in a blog that is no doubt one of many blogs to be started and forced upon the internet on the 19th of August 2008.
But hopefully, unlike some of the other 1000’s of blogs started today i can provide some useful information that will help someone out there.
I have been [...]