Dec
25
TESL-L: ghost from the past
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What was that? I thought it was a TESL-L list. TESL-L was the first tesol mailing list I ever joined online. And it provided a great resource of learned posters and information way back in 1995-6. It was amazing. Fast forward to 2006, though, and one begins to see why it WAS a great mailing [...]
Dec
23
RockStartup: Dramatic and Educational!
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Well, it’s all drama at Payperpost as the Dot.com company as they struggle over the move to the new premises. As usual in such a move, things get delayed, stuff goes missing, problems compound, all at the very stressful.
I’m quite enjoying the entire series a great deal as the drama moves forward… and the [...]
Dec
23
A Lulu New Year: It arrived in time for 2007!
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Well, the calendar that I ordered from Lulu arrived finally! Boy, did it arrive!? I picked it up on Thursday when I was feeling really bad after a lousy head/brain cold. It cheered me up no end, when I saw how it looked! You can read about the post here, and see it here. The [...]
Dec
16
Want to join my Pixi-ad Carnival? It’s a little ad 20px by 20px, you can have an image, a link, and a popup message that will say whatever you wish. I’ll be launching this at the beginning of January. $30 per “?” for 2007 on this blog. Once the Carnival is complete, it will remain [...]
Dec
13
Live Video Conferencing: Go Live and Get a Life Back!
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Have you ever traveled somewhere only to waste hours on a flight, hours getting to the airport, and hours waiting at an airport? I don’t dare mention lousy hotel rooms! I know you’re a bit skeptical of video conferencing, but perhaps Video Conferencing Equipment can change your mind!
LifeSize Room™ is offering a system that [...]
Dec
12
Commitments, Focus and 2007!
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Have you ever noticed how many things there are to do on the Internet? MP3s to listen to, Videos to watch, Groups to join, Chats to finish, Emails to write, it’s really busy work. And yet, it’s also quite frustrating because you sit down to write an email, and 2 hours go by, you’ve done [...]
Dec
12
RockStartUp.com - TV REALity Show
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I’ve been enjoying the first two episodes of a dot.com reality tv show about the startup of Payperpost.com as they go around promoting the concept at conferences and set up the offices. These guys work 80 hour weeks, putting me to shame for sure! I don’t know at the same time if I even envy [...]