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Cambodian Kickboxing Roadtrip to Fight on National Television

Pradal Serey is the Cambodian national sport and a branch of kickboxing (like Muay Thai).
Rattatan is a poor 29 year old Khmer fighter and started training at 26 to raise money and start his own barber shop.
As a natural athlete with cool demeanor and wins including knock outs he has been invited to [...]

Standing Out in a Saturated E-bay Market

Knowing your customer and creating a hard to reproduce competitive advantage is one way of standing out in any business. I applied these concepts to mobile phones, watch the video to see the results.

Wide Angle Hack for Flip Camera

One misty cold night in downtown San Francisco a punk ran off with my phone. I chased and cornered him on the other side of the terminal. The kid half my size refused to give it back and his two girlfriends were closing in. I had the option to use force and doing so would [...]

Use these firefox shortcuts and save 1 year of your life

While undertaking firefox intensive activities, my friend Mel was surprised how many shortcuts I was using and so was I.
Last year I was teaching excel and at that moment realised the shortcut virus had gone airborne and moved to firefox. Luckily, it was not the H1N1 strain and I am finding my new found ability [...]

Poverty is like Acne – Blog Action Day 2008

Courtesy of SlopJop
Everyone is going on about this thing call Poverty.
To be honest, I don’t even know what poverty REALLY is?
In fact, I am desensitized to most messages thrown at me about poverty.
I partially blame World Vision (and main stream media) for throwing the shock card at me.
You know?
The starving bloated fly ridden African child [...]

Linking Friends Flow Chart Using Facebook Connect

Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform – enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site.
Facebook Connect is a cool opportunity mainly because I have social networking enabling modules that Dotnetnuke (Open source .net framework) site owners can install, Facebook Connect is an excellent opportunity to re-shape the [...]

Be Aware Of The Book

Creative Commons – http://www.flickr.com/photos/florian_b/44227093/
Cash going into your business\muse\micro-enterprise and NOT the library? Here are free books to keep you inspired and skilled up.

http://thepiratesdilemma.com/download-the-book/
Here are four books go start your own X, Y and Z
http://free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
Question your deep seeded beliefs on copyright. Now go innovate.

http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
Our society is constructed on stories. Time to tell yours.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/bzzagent/The_Word_of_Mouth_Manual_Volume_II.pdf
It may infuriate but [...]

A tip to bridging communities? Move the goal posts

Sport teams have strong social capital but what does it take to get two rival teams to meet under difficult logistical conditions?
Maybe changing the objective from scoring points to scoring beers?

Generation Y

Mel has been doing presentations to companies on Generation Y. Here is her latest video.
Notice the Aussie accents? It is shot in Melbourne, a place I may just call home one day.
If you want to find out more about Generation Y for your company or org, contact me.

Cabin Pressure

In a time, not so long ago, while once again escaping the corporate world. I found myself at a Summer Camp in the U.S.A.
Similiar to a company, I had multiple roles, responsibilties and rewards

Waterfront Security
Wakeboard Instructor
with Benefits
and most importantly a Role Model to campers
I made lots of close friends
and the best one of all was [...]