ecornflak

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by ecornflak 1y ago
I’m old enough to have learned COBOL at university, although that was the mid 90’s and says more an about the university than my age. It was good fun and interesting, so if you have the time and interest I’d go for it.
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by ecornflak 3y ago
You don’t happen to remember the name of an Amiga game where you navigated a little robot around via CCTV while avoiding security guards, in order to break into a safe?
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by ecornflak 3y ago
A lot of great suggestions here. My two additions would be starting weekly one-on-ones or if you are already doing them, using them to roll out changes individually with each contributor This allows you to individualise your approach but wi
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by ecornflak 3y ago
I might be late to the party but I think if you watched BlackBerry you’d like the Tetris movie too. It’s a bit silly but in a good way.
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by ecornflak 3y ago
203.21.30.124 and .125 were the IPs of the DNS servers for the ISP I worked at in the late 1990s So many hours talking customers through DNS settings on the help desk.
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When I was 8 I wrote a graphic novel. My mum kept it so you can enjoy it(mrjamesbell.com)
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by ecornflak 4y ago
https://mrjamesbell.com is my blog. It’s the first personal website I’ve ever felt happy about. Every so often I’ll get inspired and write a post but I have quite a few ideas in draft.
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by ecornflak 4y ago
Beat me to it for some NZ perspective, but while we’re here, I was introduced to Jean-Michel Jarre at one of the first Laser Tag places in NZ in the late 80s. I can’t remember what it was called, but it was next to Leisure land/Footrot
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by ecornflak 4y ago
Curious about micro coaching - can you explain a bit more about how this works?
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by ecornflak 4y ago
My father was originally from Manchester and there is a good chance he borrowed heavily.
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by ecornflak 4y ago
It’s interesting to find this out!
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by ecornflak 4y ago
My Dad was an avid sci fi reader, I feel this is probably where he borrowed from :)
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If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off(mrjamesbell.com)
354 points by ecornflak 4y ago|98 comments
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by ecornflak 4y ago
The one thing stopping me doing this is finding my own domain name that I want to use for email. You’d think with the number of domain names I own I’d have one I liked
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by ecornflak 4y ago
Every once in a while I go through an “I want a website” phase and try something new, but always end up back with Wordpress. Ultimately I wanted to write content and play around with CSS making it look nice, and Wordpress handles that. Man
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by ecornflak 4y ago
Interesting to hear this exists. I’ve got a lot of knowledge about job seeking (through years of coaching and recruitment) that I want to share but wasn’t sure how much interest there would be.
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by ecornflak 4y ago
I enjoy the same sense of accomplishment as I did running a BBS or installing Linux (and getting the modem driver to work) back in the day.
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by ecornflak 4y ago
I genuinely thought instantdomainsearch had been consumed by GoDaddy
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by ecornflak 4y ago
Its a little off-topic, but my dad passed away last year and left behind a collection of about 40 slide rules. Aside from his personal slide rule from university and his first job (working at ICL in Manchester designing multiplier boards fo
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by ecornflak 5y ago
My mum died in January and my Dad died a couple of weeks ago. We didn’t do much for Christmas as a family but I keep thinking of the interesting things to tell my Dad about that he’s not around to tell. He’d almost certainly be watching t
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by ecornflak 6y ago
I really enjoyed visiting the United Nations building in New York. The tour was interesting and if they weren't in session they too you into the various meeting rooms.
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by ecornflak 6y ago
The manager-tools.com podcast is excellent for things like this. Start with the Professional Subordination one: https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/12/professional-subordina...
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by ecornflak 6y ago
Nah, its not common. She's a "cool" science communicator complete with pink hair to appeal to the kids. (That's not to undermine her at all, she's fantastic.)
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by ecornflak 6y ago
ok so this is helpful because I'm planning on starting a blog and want to use it to document some of the cool things I've done in the past. Would you (as a reader) prefer my trip to Norway to be dated when it happened, or when I p
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by ecornflak 7y ago
To be honest I stopped reading after the initial focus on writing vs having a chat with someone. Maybe that works for some organisations but I'd much rather my team talk through a problem than engage in long protracted email threads.
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by ecornflak 7y ago
I went through a few back in the day. Some suggestions: The Hacker Crackdown The first 20 million is always the hardest The Nudeist on the Late Shift What should I do with my life? (Po Bronson is a theme I guess)
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by ecornflak 7y ago
Please include a function to print nice looking versions. My not-for-profit is still quite paper based and when the checklist is online and the paper it relates to is offline the checklist doesn't get used.
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by ecornflak 7y ago
I've been looking at using this in my not-for-profit. Do you give everyone a login to edit/add content? I'm trying to figure out the best way to not have everything public but let my volunteers access info without needing an