Part 1: My Business Philosophy

This is the first of a three-part series focused on explaining my business philosophy. On my home page I call out my personal business philosophy: Andrew's business philosophy is built upon the value of mutual respect, the skill to leverage process for continuous improvement, and the ability to ultimately achieve self-actualisation. Mutual Respect To make progress in this world we need teamwork and co-operation. High performing teams are built around trust and respect for one another.

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I’ve been actively avoiding the Mac rumour sites because I don’t want to spoil my own surprise for the iPhone event. I wouldn’t want to be the Apple employee who leaked the information. I wonder if he’ll ever get another job anywhere again.

Gave up on the cruddy D-Link DVA-2800 router. Demoted it to bridge status and brought my AirPort Extreme back into service.

I’m mucking around with blog template themes again. Trying to find a nice clean format that will look good for longer posts and micro blogs alike.

It’s been fun to discover some new (to me) bloggers through micro.blog and in so doing, revitalise my RSS reader.

The Business of Glengarry Glen Ross

I love the movie Glengarry Glen Ross. I’ve never seen the stage play, but the movie seems to be a faithful translation and its actors are all top shelf, so I’m willing to accept it as canonical1. Despite the dated nature of the film’s setting, much continues to ring true about the circumstances in which the protagonists find themselves. Desperate times, leading to desperate measures, with each character dealing with the same adversity in their own varied ways.

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Internet Services Worth Paying For

On the Internet there is a weird user expectation that everything should be free. Over the past couple of years I’ve been bucking this trend and have determined that spending a bit of money on what is both a hobby and an integral part of my existence in our modern, connected world is something I’m willing to throw a bit of money towards. I don’t want to be the product; I want to be the customer.

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In preparation for the deluge of web traffic I will no doubt achieve, I’ve just successfully connected my site to Cloudflare and Railgun. Overkill for the win! Major kudos to my web host, VentraIP for a bit of support along the way.

@manton Does a username have to be at the beginning of a post for the user to be notified, or can it be within the text of a micro.blog post?