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Comment: To PowerPoint or not to PowerPoint…
Along with horrible colour schemes and badly designed templates …
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My Opinion 5th May 2025
I have some strong opinions on certain things and this is one of them.
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Throwing more tech at tech? There is a better way.
The perfect example is buying an even more expensive camera to get, supposedly, better pictures or video, as against furthering your understanding of the science of photography or videography and how your existing camera works?
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Travelogue: Christmas Island (The Indian Ocean One)
Travelogue: Christmas Island When you think of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, you might have visions of wide expanses of sandy beaches, swaying palm trees, deckchairs with small tables holding exotic cocktails and all the other stereotypical images you generally see in travel TV shows and magazines. And you’d be right […]
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Are all telcos equal? Nope… not by a long shot.
So, 2 weeks ago I could call Jacqui if I wanted to, while she was on a Cathay Pacific jet over Germany at 30,000 feet, but on a part of Australia that is actually civilised and not just inhabited by emus, wombats, kangaroos, rabbits and crocodiles, I can’t use a standard telco service without a great deal of muckin’ about.
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Seek and ye shall find. Or not. (But there are other benefits)
So, I devised a methodology of starting at one end of the house to the other in a sort of search pattern
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Two Things You Should Always Do
As fast as I’d have a complete system running, it would require a tweak here, a different look there, a new report required and so on. It just never ended.
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Do you purchase based on “influencer” advice?
A mutual acquaintance had purchased an item that had been recommended by someone on TikTok. Apparently, it all looked good, seemed to fit the need and was reasonably priced.
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Tariffs on software imports? It might happen…
The one thing I am waiting for is the moment when someone in Trump’s cabinet gets the smart idea that there are REALLY big bucks to be made with tariffs on software services and apps.
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Cyclones: Been there and done that. Do NOT risk yourself for anything.
My car was sandblasted down one side. Our rotary clothes line (that has a concrete block as a base) screwed itself into the ground so that the handle mechanism was at ground level.
