Category: News

Google dependency

My internet connection is not great in Bali. I think now my internet bill is higher than my monthly rent! Partly because I moved to a cheaper place and now paying to have it in our office. From time to time, Google.com stops...

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Problogger launches paid membership forum

I don’t read Darren Rowse’s Problogger so much any more, but I just got an email notification that he is launching a new blogging forum on the .com version of his website. I always wondered why Darren never launched...

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Using Google Chrome

My laptop is still going strong after a couple of years, but it is starting to get slower and slower, mainly when starting up. I am reluctant to buy a new one as this one has been so reliable. A reinstall of the Windows would...

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Wolf of Wall Street

I just finished reading the “The Wolf of Wall Street” by Jordan Belfort. It’s a good read and a book which is hard to put down. It is the story of Jordan Belfort’s rise in the stock market world and...

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The World is Flat

For the past month or so I haven’t read a single book. Traveling through Vietnam and Laos the pickings have been pretty slim, especially in the way on non-fiction. I am in Bangkok now and I picked up a copy of “The...

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Mail from a Forbes reporter

Back in April I received an email from Andrew Greenberg from Forbes. He was writing an article on Google’s supplemental index. He found me through a comment I made on Aaron Wall’s blog. He wanted me to call him to...

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The four hour work week

I have read some good reviews of this book and not surprisingly it has been getting a great deal of attention in the internet marketing and blogging world. I am currently in Vietnam so I am not sure how I can get my hands on a...

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Life of Pi

I just started reading ‘Life of Pi’. I really like this quote from it: I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not...

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Blogger merged with Google accounts

I logged into blogger today and got a message asking if I wanted to merge my blogger account with my google account. I don’t use blogger for much these days, but I still have the original acccount where this blog started....

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Asian Expats

Have you ever felt you were the only person who felt a particular way? I couldn’t help reading this and feeling it relates to me fairly well: Nearly all are long-timers and most have become disaffiliated from their home...

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