This is a cool video made of the dance and travels of Matt Harding

We have a charity fund raiser that we are working on. It is the Cookham Dean Gravity Grand Prix on September 14th 2008. We are raising money for the Air Ambulance and would appreciate your support.

Arman Eshraghi, founder and CEO of LogiXML

With more than 22,200 software developers in 98 countries actively creating web-based reports with Logi products, LogiXML is confident that we have a solid foundation to expand our international business substantially in the near future and we are making an investment in that success with the establishment of the new international office. 

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Its great to have the support of the boss even if not explicitly mentioned in the article.

Nigel Edelshain of Sales 2.0 has written a great article about sales prospecting being like golf (or skiing).

My experience is that prospecting is like golf in this way. It’s very hard (and often frustrating). But that one sale you make is like that one beautiful golf shot. It feels really great. There’s something about the thrill of that one “yes” in amongst those 100 “no’s” that is addictive — to me at least. It keeps me coming back.

He explains that we often set our sights a little too high, always trying to hit that “hole-in-one” and forgetting that we will be doing really well to reach par!  If you are in sales and have to do any prospecting this article is one that I would recommend.

Sales 2.0 Prospecting - Motivation

At last Oscar Pistorius has cleared the legal hurdle and is allowed to compete in the Olympics.  While he has yet to run the qualifying time, the legal “BS” has been overcome and he can now focus on the running..

Regularly described as the fastest man with no legs, Oscar has to run 45.95sec for the 400m to qualify for the Olympic team.  This is of course not the case for the 4×400m relay as there is no qualifying time for runners.

Best of luck Oscar and we look forward to seeing you in Beijing as well as London in 2012.

LogiXML makes it into the SD Times top 100 for the 2nd consecutive year and is the only BI company to do so…Found under the Tools section… Here then are the companies, tools and open-source projects that made December 2007 a far more productive and efficient time to code than January 2007:Tools
They’re the bits and pieces of the daily grind that your coders can’t live without. They’re the services and software that help to appease your legal department or allow you to run new Ruby code on old Java application servers. They’re the tools—and the old saying that a craftsman is only as good as his or her tools applies all the more in this case. With tools like the eponymous Valgrind, even the sloppiest developer can churn out functional and usable code, free of memory leaks and XML errors.Black Duck
Instantiations
JRuby
Krugle.net
LogiXML
Rally
Valgrind

I thought that I would wait a few days before I gloated about the results of the mayoral election in London.  Oh what joy, Livingston is gone……  good riddance, at last the electorate have removed this individual from office.

Shame he didn’t go sooner, but then most of the people’s lives who he screwed with don’t live in London and so cannot vote there.  No we only have to suffer his policies each day as we commute into the capital for work.

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Let’s hope that you find a useful role in one of those countries you were so fond of visiting on the tax payers pound.  How about a long trip to Venezuela to run their cities into the ground?

This is the new ad for Drench (mineral water)with the catch line “Brains perform best when they are hydrated”.

Zach has just turned 10 and I was pointed to a video called the Teenage Song and saw this one: Sort Of Dunno Nothin’ - Peter Denahy

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which lead me to wonder if this is what I have to look forward to…. I was then reminded that this is what 10 year olds are like, already!

In Susan Scott’s book Fierce Conversations she explains how to make relationships meaningful and successful by focusing on “one conversation at a time”. 

Her model offers a good way to make sure you deal with the things you need to deal with in conversations, while showing that you can avoid the collateral damage it’s easy to inflict when doing so.  The real essence of the book - how to navigate through the difficult conversations you need to have. “Fierce Conversations” could have been called “A practical way to have the hard conversations without getting into an argument”, which is what this is really about.  She outlines principles that offer ways to avoid wild, hostile, or vicious behaviour, which the title “Fierce” might suggest.    

This book can inspire you to tackle those conversations you know you need to have “one conversation at a time”, because “The conversation is the relationship”.