About 5 weeks ago I ordered some products from an Australia site called Direct Discount. I paid via Paypal. I got a confirmation email. Everything looked legit. But it’s been five weeks and still no product. I’ve tried emailing their sales support line but the emails bounce. They have a fax number on the site [...]

Canned coffee vending machines

Originally uploaded by seanbonner

Sean Bonner is posting great photos from Japan including this one of a canned coffee vending machine. Mmmmm. And I thought Nescafe sucked!

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On The Cranky Middle Manager Episode 101, Wayne interviewed guest Anita Bruzzese, a workplace columnist who’s “On [...]

A great example of Christian tolerance in the US senate.
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Chris Pirillo is getting up to speed on the problems inherent in the American system of democracy and capitalism. Interesting to see someone like Chris speaking out about this. Watch the first ten minutes of the video he’s linked to. Chris has just agreed to [...]

Did anyone register TPN in the Anthill Cool Company awards? Did you get hit with the $59 entry fee? James and Paul sent me an email this morning saying they decided to charge an entry fee after all. I’m wondering if you guys got hit. What do you think about having to pay an entry [...]

Got this funny email from lil sister Anita:
You’re friggin’ everywhere…I was looking up stationery for work and Googled ‘roller papermate gel II’ to see what it was and the fourth Google entry was this!
Is there anywhere I can go without bumping into you???! Geez!!!!!!

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The issue of B&T Magazine that I wrote an article about [...]

Mike Moore gets stuck into Wolf on CNN:

(via Chris Pirillo’s twitter)
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Remember Marc Rich? The guy indicted by Guiliani for trading illegally with Iran and tax evasion who then received a Presidential Pardon from Clinton in the last hours of his Presidency because he was a large donor to the Democratic Party? Well guess who his [...]

Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later.
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Productivity tip of the day - delete the “Latest News” live feed from Firefox toolbar. I think I checked that 50 times a day. It’s now GONE.
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How do you know that someone in Facebook is real?
I [...]

Does anyone out there know how to print a filtered outline in MindManager? I’m using Mindjet’s MindManager Pro 6 and when I filter my map to isolate certain tasks, and then view it in Outline View, the print option is disabled. Seems stupid to me. Anybody know how to get around this? I tried cutting [...]

G’Day World in MX

Originally uploaded by cameronreilly

Thanks to Daniel Bowen for scanning it and for CathyE to mentioning I was in it! There’s another benefit of Twitter! Oh and thanks to whomever it was at MX who gave me the plug. You know you’ve made [...]

And keep it? Apparently they gave G’Day World a plug. I’d love a copy or a scan.