GDAY WORLD #219 – Using LinkedIn As A Business Tool

by | Mar 28, 2007 | Podcast, technology

UPDATE: Stan now has his own show on TPN! Check out The Connections Show!

My guest today is Stan Relihan, Australia’s #1 LinkedIn’r. Stan is a recruiter in Sydney and has over 5000 connections in his LinkedIn profile (including me). Stan tells me why he thinks LinkedIn is a valuable business tool for everyone, not just recruiters, and I set him a challenge – to get me a very cool guests for the show using LinkedIn.

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GDAY WORLD #218 – CJ Fearnley on Buckminster Fuller

by | Mar 26, 2007 | Podcast, science

After I did show #217 last week, I got an email from today’s guest – CJ Fearnley, Executive Director of the Synergetics Collaborative, a non-for-profit organization that brings people together to build on the work of the late, great Buckminster Fuller. CJ complimented me on the show and we agreed it would be fun to have him come on and talk about Fuller in more depth.

Buckminster Fuller

Here are some additional links about Bucky Fuller for extra reading:
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Geodesic Dome
Needle Tower
Design Science Lab
The Buckminster Fuller Institute

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TPN’s AFL Show cracks iTunes top rankings

by | Mar 26, 2007 | Podcast, TPN

Congrats to Jeff and Paul, hosts of the recently re-launched AFL podcast on TPN. It’s cracked the iTunes Australian top rankings! I think this is the highest any TPN podcast has ranked in iTunes, so I’m pretty proud of the boys.

AFL podcast

And a special shout-out to Molly Malone who introduced me to the boys in the first place and suggested they would make great hosts for the show.

I have an announcement to make…

by | Mar 26, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized

After many years of research, I have finally cracked the secret to the ultimate hot chocolate.

I took the boys into the city today for “Wicked Sunday” – the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s celebration of coffee. And ’twas there, children, that I stumbled upon the magic ingredient – Chocolateriaâ„¢ San Churro. The secret, I have discovered, to the perfect, hot, thick, to-die-for spanish hot chocolate for “churos” is to use the very expensive powder from Chocolateriaâ„¢ San Churro, with milk, and be prepared to stir it on a low heat in a saucepan for about 15 minutes. But, oh! Children! You will not regret this discipline, I assure you. TO DIE FOR.

In other Sunday night news… I just discovered by accident that if I click the scroll wheel on my mouse, Vista shows all of the open windows evenly arrayed across my monitor. h00t!

I still can’t figure out how to get my Google Desktop searches to open in Firefox instead of IE. I even tried uninstalling and reinstalling GD today but didn’t help. Goddamn IE!

In other Google frustrations, as my Gmail account is now 96% full, I tried to upgrade to Google Premium tonight, only to find that in order to do that I need to point my domain name MX record over to Google. Obviously cannot do that sir, as I am not the only citizen of TPN to be using it. So I’m scratching my head trying to figure out how I give the nice kids at Google my $50 for one of those 10Gb email accounts. If anyone knows the answer to my dilemma, please pass it on.

A Clean Inbox

by | Mar 24, 2007 | technology

Whew. I’ve finally reduced my inbox to EMPTY. That took a consistent effort over the last week. At the beginning of the week I was answering emails that were 3 – 4 weeks old. Bad. Very bad. Apologies to anyone I hadn’t responded to in a timely manner. I seriously get something like 100 emails a day which expect an answer or require an action and I need a better system. I wish Gmail had better auto-responding tools. Perhaps it might even be time to go back to combining Gmail with Outlook’s rules?

Ugh. Did I just suggest that? I must be losing it.

Death By Ecky-Thump

by | Mar 24, 2007 | Uncategorized

Tony Goodson posted this interesting story recently about how much bigger The Goodies were in the 70s than Monty Python but how the Pythons have really stood the test of time much better. You watch any Flying Circus today and it is still as subversive as it was 40 years ago. That’s really saying something. Compare it to the other British comedy of the time… The Two Ronnies? Morcambe and Wise? Dad’s Army? Are You Being Served?

HOWEVER… The Goodies have one credit to their name that I don’t think the Pythons have – they killed someone. Seriously.

This is from Wikipedia’s list of “Unusual Deaths”:

On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King’s Lynn literally died laughing whilst watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode “Kung Fu Kapers” in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of “Hoots-Toot-ochaye.” After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

Can you say… ECKY-THUMP?!