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 →
The Gift of Giving
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, a compact Canon Digital IXUS v.2 . Each photo makes me smile with amazement. Whilst taking the photographs I did not expect them to turn out so well. But it was not till I was uploading them that I realised how... 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 →
The Risks in Receiving the Free Products
Microsoft and AMD have sent free Acer Ferrari 1000 and 5000 notebooks loaded with MS Vista™ to a group of high-profile bloggers. From Scott Beale's post, a portion of the letter sent to each recipient. Take note of highlighted text: "Full disclosure - while I hope you will blog about your experience with the... Continue Reading →
Use Convenient Naming in HTML
Jonathan Snook has written a great post that I have commented as a "succint statement of validation" regarding the over/use of DIV’s in a web site. Like many coders who layout their plans on paper first, I carefully decide what the DIVs will be entitled for the remainder of their lifetime online. Some have standard... Continue Reading →
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