I was chatting to one of my friends yesterday about his 30 year business career. During the course of this conversation one statement in particular he made stuck in my mind.
“I don’t have failures, just setbacks”.
In my opinion this is a counter productive way to think. Everybody fails at something at one stage [...]
Cliches yes, but all too true:
Patience is a virtue: Patience can be learned, and its is a big advantage for you to learn it. In learning how to be patient, it is also prudent to learn how to identify situations where is is advantageous to be impatient. Not everything can be (or should be) waited [...]
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. - By Paul Boutin (http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/16-11/st_essay)
This is the first line in an article that was sent to me in a WebProNews email. The article basically states that blogs have become passé due to over commercialization and [...]
When people find a certain way of doing things that work for them, they’ll generally stick to it.
At the start of my career as a junior PHP programmer, i was lucky enough to land myself a job at a great web design company. The job started great, but after a while of doing the same [...]
I am an IT manager in a small business, so often i end up doing all the IT work and occasionally some of the marketing work. We just don’t have the money to hire a lot of staff to do specialized jobs.
The advantage of this is that i am often forced to apply the LAYG [...]
The Large Hadron Collider got switched on yesterday for a bit of a test drive. The news world has been going nuts on this story, already declaring and accusing this machine of this and that.
A popular consensus amongst these news reports is that is going to cause our demise as a human race. And I [...]
No, you shouldn’t.
Why? In my personal experience I’ve found out that emails sent to address from a bought mailing list is regarded by the majority of people who receive it as spam. They don’t know who you are, they don’t know how you got their email address and after those two factors, they don’t care [...]
