The Hungry Gardener

September 6, 2011

There’s a series of ads on TV that feature a visual metaphor for something to do with finance. An egg-timer to represent a mortgage and sand in the timer to represent the repayments. That kind of thing. I don’t remember what company or product the ad is for but the reason they have stuck in [...]

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Sprints for game creators and playing in the browser

September 2, 2011

From Hacker News: A group of game developers who are doing a 14 day sprint for charity to create a complete game. http://www.bigblockgames.com/blog/coffeesprint/ 14 whole days? Pfft Ludum Dare Invites developers to create a working game in 48 hours Notch, of Minecraft fame created Prelude of the Chambered over the weekend and recorded most of his [...]

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Learn Python the hard way

September 2, 2011

Learning something the hard way is not something that normally attracts me. I’d much prefer to see an easy way or a quick way. I had seen Learn Python the Hard Way recommended over and over again when I first thought about learning python. I imagined a series of difficult exercises that would force you [...]

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Working at home and cabin fever

August 19, 2011

It’s fantastic to work from home make your own hours. I also find it really difficult to manage my time and stay productive.   If you want something done, give it to a busy person. I’ve got all the time in the world and I find myself wasting it. Reading The Now Habit has given [...]

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Hotel Sprint

April 11, 2011

My wife is staying in a hotel for a business trip so I’m tagging along and keeping her company. While she’s doing work stuff  I’m in the hotel and have decided to build a prototype for my latest project, or at least try to get as much done as possible. Yep, I’m tired as hell [...]

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Old money and 2 different plans for new money

March 13, 2011

I did some affiliate marketing a while ago and had some success. I built some small sites and pages and added reviews of products that I had used. At the end of the review I linked to the merchant and some people went ahead and bought, earning me a commission. Some pages earned 0. Some [...]

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Company Culture

February 23, 2011

I’ve been reading Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh who is the CEO of Zappos. Zappos is an online shoe retailer who are focused on customer service. they call themselves a company powered by service and this approach has helped them to turnovers of over a billion dollars and zappos was recently acquired by amazon.com for [...]

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Checking in some code

February 21, 2011

I’ve been working on my language learning project for the last 2 weeks or so, getting to grips with python. Today I checked in some code for the first time. I’m using the free version of kiln which is a fancy free frontend / version of mercurial. The last time I used a versioning system [...]

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More connected in 2011

January 6, 2011

The start of a new year – resolutions, hangovers. Quickly followed by broken resolutions and regret. I don’t even remember last year’s resolutions so they obviously haven’t been maintained. They were probably about earning money online and while 2010 wasn’t a complete washout it was far from the success I wanted it to be. So, [...]

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Where I earn money online

June 26, 2010

The title of this post is a bit of a tease because I’m not going to tell you exactly where I earn money online. What I do want to do is share how many different products I promote and what kind of thing I do in order to make some affiliate sales. In time this [...]

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