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Archive for June, 2008

20 Jun, 2008

Sydney Apple Shop Opening

Posted by: Marc In: Apple| Business| iPhone

It was a spectacle with followers no different to sport or rock-star crowd pull. It’s simply about passion for something. That’s just how humans are. There’s nothing wrong with that in my book.
I posted on SydneyNorg a citizen journalism website (love that concept) about the opening in a bit more detail. I met up Bronwen [...]

16 Jun, 2008

Batch Processing Your Day

Posted by: Marc In: Habits| Life| Philosophy

Some time ago I wrote about transition time costs and how they are a big cost to personal and business efficiency. Problogger Darren Rowse was right on the money today in his post about batch processing tasks together to get efficiency in his blogging business. I think he misses the “why” it works but the [...]

I had an experience today reading a post in Google Reader which when I later opened the post on the bloggers website I realised it simply wasn’t as clear and easy to read as it was in Google Reader. Google Reader had cleaned it up quite well.
So for bloggers out there it’s worth a quick [...]

13 Jun, 2008

Donkey and Oil Price Correlation

Posted by: Marc In: Economics| Humor| Trading

Donkey prices are going through the roof. A good mate on the trading desk at Deutsche Bank I worked with sent me a hilarious news snippet (in a nervous laughter kind of way).
For those who are wondering if there is inflation: the Turkish newspaper Zaman reported the price of donkeys in Yozgat district in [...]



  • Marc: Yeah i agree, it's just plain frustrating and not even close to acceptable. We have many flaws usability flaws I will admit openly. Not as frustrating
  • Gary Barber: However you never want to have a web application that frustrates people and makes it hard for them to do want they want to do with their data. Remo
  • Farhan Rehman: Interesting... It's often been said that the clutter in ones physical space, be it work, or home, is a reflection of the cluttered thoughts in ones m

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