January 2009
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Virgin: the world's best passenger complaint... →
This letter is good for a mid-week laugh. The photos of the food are rather disturbing - but familiar. I am sure they use the same catering company as some of our local airline carriers.
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Are you looking for a job?
While you’re refurbishing your CV take a look at this short article:
“6 words that make your resume suck”
It’s pretty obvious to focus on a potential employees’ past successes and the benefits to the employer of hiring someone, but you’d be surprised how many CVs I get which fail all of the above. They just list the things that people have done - not how...
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“In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior...”
– Steve Jobs, CEO Apple. (This has job to be one of my most favourite quotes from the guru.)
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How's your New Year's Resolution going?
Already slipped on a few of them? Turns out that’s a good thing.
40-46% of people who set resolutions are successful at the six month point
Having a resolution buddy and checking in with that person just three times will significantly increase the likelihood of success
71% of the people who achieved their resolution in six months, slipped in January and said this slip strengthened their...
“If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world,...”
– Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing that it has hit the milestone of 150 million active users.
Warren Buffet in 1999 during the peak of the...
“It’s wonderful to promote new industries, because they are very promotable. It’s very hard to promote investment in a mundane product. It’s much easier to promote an esoteric product, even particularly one with losses, because there’s no quantitative guideline. But people will keep coming back to invest you know.
It reminds me a little of that story of the oil prospector who died and went to...
Business Report - Porsche takes over Volkswagen →
OK, so Porche now owns and controls VW; VW owns Audi who controls SEAT. As a SEAT owner, does that mean I sort-of-kinda own a Porche?
The Single Secret to Making 2009 Your Best Year... →
I love Leo’s writing and follow his blog like a hawk. Also just bought his 1st book.
But this post today just hit the sweet (or is that sweat) spot.
Wind power costs 'worthwhile', says Eskom →
Um, dear Eskom, not so long ago (a month back) you dumped idea of building the 2nd nuke station as you didn’t have the funds. Nuke was too costly you said. Now you say wind is only slightly more expensive than coal. Is that total cost of ownership? (building, running, environmental costs and moth-balling costs when it needs to be shut down). I suspect wind would be the cheapest considering...
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Medical myths busted by the BMJ →
The bastion of medical knowledge, the British Medical Journal has released 2 articles busting a whole bunch of medical myths, including:
- We don’t use only 10% of our brains.
- Hair and fingernails don’t continue to grow after death.
- Shaving hair does not cause it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser.
- Reading in dim light does not ruin your eyesight.
- You don’t...
Busy getting some structure to my 2009 plans. Still pondering a few big hairy audacious ideas.