We’re heading into that time of year again in Queensland, where the conditions become perfect for severe weather events. Being sub-tropical, the heat of spring brings moist air currents, electrical storms, cyclones & flooding. While 2013-2014 is not expected to bring the heavy deluges of rain seen previously (eg Nov 2011), we’re still bracing for…
TitStare – Why women don’t feel comfortable in the tech industry.
It’s not like me to rush out a blog post. I don’t leap to my keyboard everytime something in the media has people crying out against it. But today I just felt so compelled to write about TitStare. At TechCrunch’s ‘Disrupt’ event in San Fransisco, audience members were presented with the TitStare app by two…
Exchange mail delivery stops on Windows SBS 2003 with AVG
We have AVG 2013 successfully running on a number of client’s servers and our own servers, with no problems. However one particular client with SBS 2003 experiences intermittent email problems which always co-incide with an update to AVG. Symptoms include: Users saying they haven’t received any emails recently or their recipients haven’t received emails that…
Why is writing important to me and my business?
Wow. That’s a big question that I’ve never asked myself before. It’s never been important like being at the top of a list of priorities, or even at the top of the ‘important/urgent’ quadrant of a to-do list. But it’s important to my heart, to the part of me that always has writing as the…
When business & IT collide.
I had the pleasure of showing a team the features of their new CRM software. Have I lost you yet with how boring that sentence is? Fortunately the reality was far from boring. To me – the CRM system is a plugin to a Joomla website. There are some bits I can configure & some bits…
Authentic.
Last week, on three separate occasions, I was given feedback by people I admire. Two of those were part of a formal assessment process. One came out of the blue. I respect the skills, opinions & experience of all three people. And I was glowing. ‘Exemplary’ ‘A style that’s yours – don’t ever change it’…