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Gates vs. Jobs
Hilarious video with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs playing PC and Mac (like in the Apple “Get a Mac” adverts on TV) with a great cameo at the end (I won’t spoil it for you)
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(via John Chow)

Been quite a while since my last post. Lots of stuff happening - been really busy.
Final few months of 2006 I was working very hard on a major site redesign and upgrade for InvestEd - which went live around new years.
Since then I’ve been working pretty much full time on getting my books up to [...]

This is a test from Ecto … blog editing software.
Just seeing how things go.

Following up from my previous entry Keeping your balls in the air, I came across a post from the Fast Company blogs this morning about taking time to think.
Here’s part of that post:
Margaret Heffernan: Stop Multitasking
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11:30, my calendar had an unmovable meeting. It lasted only half an hour but [...]

Let me paint a picture for you.
Imagine, if you will, a rack filled with balls. Each ball has written on it a task that you may undertake in your daily life.
Examples of such tasks are: your job, maintaining a healthly relationship with your spouse, looking after your kids, keeping fit, eating properly, cleaning the house, [...]

I haven’t been posting much of late … number of reasons - which I won’t go into just yet.
I have just got back from a 10 day trip to China for work, and unfortunately I’ve now come down with the flu. Been growing feathers and clucking a lot too … but I’m pretty sure that’s [...]

My desktop PC runs an AMD AthlonXP 3200+ CPU, but ever since I put the machine together, it has had problems with overheating.
I have an almost identical machine with more hard drives in it (which get really hot!) but with a AMD AthlonXP 3000+ CPU, which shouldn’t make that much difference, but has never had [...]

Adam Gaffin writes on a NetworkWorld.com blog about the World’s largest Windows error message. Quite amusing.

Ingrid writes and interesting post over at The 80s Club - 80s Cliques and talks about the various groups of teenagers typically found in an 80s American High School.
While some of them are quite US centric, there are some similarities that we had here in Australia too.
One issue I take is with the lumping of [...]

You know that satisfying feeling when you get the washing in off the line 2 minutes before a thunderstorm starts ? Yay.
Also closely related to that moment of panic that you feel when you hear thunder and realise there is still clothes on the line !