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Into The Wild
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Posted in Emotions Tagged book, Christopher McCandless, conflict, Eddie Vedder, Emile Hirsch, family, film, Gordon Peterson, happiness, Jon Krakauer, Philosophy, relationship, Sean Penn., wilderness Leave a comment
How to Migrate a Website to a New Hosting Service Without any Downtime
I recently migrated one of my websites to a different hosting service. If you have a blog or website that you want to move, you can follow the same process to do so without any downtime for your visitors.
For the past couple of years, my Joomla!-based engineering website GreatEngineering.net has been hosted at SiteGround. Since creating it I’ve built 3 other websites, all hosted on IX Web Hosting because they have the best deal on multiple site hosting I could find. I use IX Web Hosting to host these sites on shared IP addresses, and Go Daddy for the domain registrations. This is the most cost-effective solution for hosting multiple sites that I’ve come across.
Since my hosting account at SiteGround was due for renewal, I decided to migrate the site to IX Web Hosting. This saved me the… Continue reading…
Radical Honesty by Brad Blanton
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Posted in Communication Tagged anger, conflict, family, freedom, radical honesty, self-consciousness 1 Comment
Life Coach Training with Beyond Success
If you’re interested in training to become a Life Coach, or in having a Life Coach or mentor, you might be interested in my experience of the Life Coach training coursre run by BeyPond Success.
I first heard Paul Blackburn from Beyond Success speak at a Think and Grow Rich event run by Stuart Zadel, back in July 2007. At the time, I had been suffering from Chronic Fatigue for about 4 months, and was feeling very anxious, agitated, exhausted, and desperate about my future. Having visited a bunch of doctors with no success, I didn’t know why I was ill or what to do about it. I was beginning to worry about how I was going to be able to earn money again in the future. I had burned out rather spectacularly from my Engineering career, and although I had plenty of available job… Continue reading…
Communication, Public Speaking, and Leadership Skills Development at Toastmasters
I’ve concluded that our ability to communicate authentically with other people is the most important life skill that we can possess. We often spend a great deal of our education learning how to analyse, think, solve problems, and understand how things work; but tend to downplay the importance of subjects that teach us how to communicate. The ability to communicate, inspire and influence other people is also a key leadership skill. Whether in business, relationships, or just in our personal lives, our ability to communicate our thoughts, feelings and ideas to other people is absolutely crucial to our success… and ultimately our happiness.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been improving my communication and leadership skills as a member of Chatswood Communicators Toastmasters club. I have to admit that I wasn’t really thinking of becoming a world-class communicator when I first came across Toastmasters. In… Continue reading…
Posted in Communication Tagged communication, leadership, public speaking, toastmasters Leave a comment
Why I use Exetel for my ADSL2+ and Telephone
Last time I looked, Exetel had the cheapest deal on combined ADSL2+ & telephone bundles in Australia.
Six months ago I decided it was time to upgrade from ADSL1 to ADSL2+. Those YouTube videos kept stalling, and I was building more and more websites so I wanted a faster Internet link. At the time, I was with Optus on a Telstra ADSL1 line, and Optus had just come out with their ‘yes’ Fusion ADSL2+ bundle deal. But it looked pretty expensive, I was tired of waiting on hold for Optus customer service, and they refused to waive the 24-month contract period even though I was switching from another plan and had been their customer for over 5 years. So I decided it was time to shop around.
After weeks of looking at advertisements, comparing prices, surfing the ‘net for the best deal I could find, a friend… Continue reading…
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Nice Guy Syndrome
When I start hearing the same message coming at me from multiple independent sources, that usually gets my attention. This year I’ve had several sources giving me the message that women want men with backbone who they can “push up against”. They get tired and ultimately resentful of Nice Guys who always yield powerlessly to them, and everyone else.
I listened to an interview by David DeAngelo (of Double Your Dating fame) talking with Robert Glover described what is wrong with Nice Guys most succinctly by quoting a comment from his ex-wife, who said “How would I know that you could ever stand up for me, if you can’t even stand up to me?”. Robert calls it Nice Guy Syndrome, and has even written a book titled No More Mr. Nice Guy! He points out that while Nice Guys think that what they… Continue reading…
Resolving The Money Riddle by Paul Blackburn
Paul Blackburn wanted to call his latest book How I went from Sweet FA to $10 Million a year in 18 Months, but his wife and business partner Mary felt this was an inappropriate business title and they settled on Resolving The Money Riddle instead. Mischievous as ever, Paul still managed to slip his preferred title onto the front cover as the tag line.
The theme of the book is that the most important factor in your financial success, or that of your business, is the grey matter between your ears. As in other areas of life, our mindset is everything. For Paul, running a business isn’t about the money; it’s a personal development opportunity that will push your boundaries at every turn. In other words, it’s about how you develop as a human being.
To be successful you’ll need to believe that you can do… Continue reading…
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Writing a book using OpenOffice.org
My first book, on attracting women, was created using the OpenOffice.org 3.1 Office Productivity Suite. I like OpenOffice because it’s free, is community-supported, and has most of the features that I really need to get my job done. Here’s my experience using it on seriously sized projects of over 200 pages.
I recently finished the 3rd draft of a 450 page book, so I know what it’s like to use OpenOffice.org Writer to create and edit a significant work with over 30 chapters, a two-level table of contents, and several pictures. I also used OpenOffice.org Draw for the cover design, and PDF export to generate files to send to Lulu for printing. I was pleased to find that OpenOffice.org was up to the task, but there were a few quirks I had to navigate and some missing features which made the task more painful… Continue reading…
