I have learnt that the only awkward gifts are those with no flavour, function or future. It's important to recognize that gifts lacking these essential elements may fail to make a meaningful impact and may leave both the giver and recipient feeling uncomfortable. Let's explore why how our choices can help us steer clear of... Continue Reading →
How a Lot of Words Are Going to Change Life
In the process of leaving a comment at the flyingsolo.com website inside a post that tells how "how a few words can change a life", I found myself writing a thousand word essay! So I decided to do a bit more research and make it a post, giving my own personal incite and experience to... Continue Reading →
9 Tips to Better Photography for Printing on Fabric
Turns out it isn't all that difficult to convert your photographs into stencils. Most children do this during their formative years. Now every parent can relive those fridge-covered days! But the first thing you have to ask yourself: Which photograph do I use? None of my current photo's seem worthy of putting on my chest!... Continue Reading →
Shooting with a Canon IXUS-2
Earlier this afternoon I decided to test out the finer-attributes of my little camera: The compact Canon Digital IXUS v.2 It appears that with the right adjustments, I am quite the marksmen. Check out these great photographs of antique wooden balls. Wondering where the balls came from? My wife’s late grandfather enjoyed collecting interesting items... Continue Reading →
Reading Your Way into Your Future
I’m not going to steal Marc Hedlund’s thunder by simply copying and pasting his text to here: This post is the greatest piece of advice any entrepreneur will read, and every web-geek should already have read. This is basically a summary of a lot of great proverbs collected over his working lifetime, then gave his... Continue Reading →
Being an Online Entrepreneur
1. Philip Greenspun When I found this article by Philip Greenspun talking about 'making money from your Website' earlier tonight, my head span and I really had to laugh at myself. Let me tell you why: Back then I realised quickly that my pages were getting overloaded with data, taking far too long to load,... Continue Reading →
Changing the WWW, One Bad Link at a Time
Some things on the internet are extremely difficult to believe if they are real or not. OK, ok, 99% of the internet is unbelievable. Even the stuff that says "Yeah, this is real" invariably isn’t. This is yet another of those occasions - but I am prepared to eat humble pie if this proves to... Continue Reading →