Blog of an Open Mind

Unless of course for some strange reason you actually enjoy getting grief…
Four months ago my wife bought me a Tmobile phone from Woolworths as a surprise birthday present. Great I thought, lovely surprise, nice phone, thumbs up…
A week ago the phone refused to charge so off to my local Woolies I went, receipt in [...]

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OK that didn’t go too well. FireFox install and import was straightforward as expected but I’ve got real problems with Thunderbird.
In Outlook I had some very detailed rules set-up to move emails, flag them or print them and looks like the filters, Thunderbird’s equivalent, is not as advanced so I’ll have to find a [...]

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OK tonight I have decided to try a little experiment. Basically I’m going to switch from using MS IE and MS Outlook to FireFox and Thunderbird for my web browsing and email for a short evaluation period. Lets say until this Sunday to give it a fair chance…
Those that know me will know that [...]

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Read this today on the beeb website about the new Motorola advert where a young chap skims his new pebble phone across the ocean to a young lass. For reasons known only to themselves, Motorola decided it was necessary to warn users at the end of the advert that the phone wasn’t waterproof!!
Well thanks [...]

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Got a great surprise today, one of my clients sent me some very tasty looking chocolates to celebrate System administrators day!
Now I had never heard of this, more info here: www.sysadminday.com, but if it means I get presents by the bucket load just for doing what I love, bring it on!

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…on so many levels
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I had both sides of the coin today…
On the one hand I had to give one of my clients some news that I knew for a fact they would not like and I was actually concerned about telling them. Granted they weren’t exactly chuffed but the matter was dealt with calmly and professionally by [...]

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In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name.
For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen.
Aleve is also called Naproxen.
Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin.
Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of [...]

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Just recently I have had to make some very tough and far reaching decisions about the business and the direction I wanted to go in. I spent a great deal of time considering the implications, weighing up the benefits and pitfalls as well as making sure I kept my eye on the “bigger issue”
Through [...]

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Well last night I thought I would join www.ecademy.com as I’d heard an awful lot of the forums I lurk in about the place. For those that don’t know, Ecademy is one of the world’s largest networking portals designed to connect like minded individuals and businesses…
I settled on the PowerNetworker membership simply as I [...]

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