I sent a stern email to the Adelaide City Lord Mayor Michael Harbison this evening. Being an ardent anti-smoker, and a photographer of all things that "get on my bloody nerves", I took the time to compile a message that not only asked for a solution, but also was considerate of the recipients position in my... Continue Reading →
Eight More Tricks to Keep Your Money at Home
Here a dozen ways you can save money for your future - without spending anymore than you do now! In fact, more often they cost you nothing at all. 1. Simply keep four extra coins to make a full dollar. [Found via getrichslowly.org] How often do you get asked "Have you got twenty cents?" ?.... Continue Reading →
Improve Your Health Today
Humans are the only species on this planet that deliberately ingests carcinogenic substances into its lungs, sucking down fumes that can leave deformities in our unborn children. Oddly, smokers choose to put out the flame upon the ground they live, walk, and breathe in - all without fear of the ongoing horrors they cause when... Continue Reading →
How To Keep The World in Focus
Staying On The Journey Perfection sounds like a wonderful goal, until you realise how exhausting it is. To be perfect is to assume you've arrived. That you've learned everything worth knowing. That you've somehow achieved guru status. I don't buy that. I'd rather remain a student, especially when it comes to photography. There's something far... Continue Reading →
Six of the Top 25 Ways to Save Money
Originally posted on money.cnn, this is 6 of the top 25 money saving ideas they could think of giving all of us. Some might have an immediate effect on your wallet, yet most are long term goals that you will need a lot of commitment and change on your part. 1. Return on investment Apparently... Continue Reading →
Find Out What You Can Become
One of the biggest mistakes any person can make is not believing in themselves, their previous learning and their potential to do more than what they are currently doing. At any given time their are countless people hesitating to take that next big step, to step outside what they have done for so long, and... Continue Reading →
Sixteen Quotes to Bring Out The Best in You
Here are sixteen of the most amazing quotes that will not only bring out the best in you, they'll also push you forward in your life-journey. ‘Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.’~ Federico Fellini ‘Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building... 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 →
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 →
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 →
Coding to Validate to Code
According to the new CSS-validator over at w3.org, my CSS on my site validate. Some might say "So what?" What they and you don’t realise: I do not use any special software to write my HTML (eg: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc) nor my CSS (eg: Topstyle, Stylemaster, MacRabbit, etc). I taught myself from reading and learning... Continue Reading →
Ten Things NOT to say at the Xmas Lunch
It's that time of the year again, where we all go to lunch with work colleagues to celebrate surviving another year in the same work environment together - where we might have to endure sitting on a table loaded with big-wigs, fat-cats, and managers. The astute employee uses this location to their advantage, wielding a... Continue Reading →
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