#MyPauseFest – 2018
Things I learned on day 1 of #PauseFest on 7 Feb 2018 🎤 A fake restaurant held onto number 1 on TripAdvisor 🎤 Girls in Tech is worth joining , if for no other reason than you get to hang around super smart women like Susan Brown and Madeleine  Grummet 🎤 There’s a new school […]
Google Adwords Express : an experiment in effectiveness
A few weeks back I kicked off an Adwords Express account for Rocking Rose. This was an experiment, specifically a Google Adwords Express experiment. I had been hearing some chatter about Google Account Managers , and opinion was split between “their job is to get your money” and “They add value to your campaign and […]
Something cool on the Netflix iPad app search
Whoo baby I love me some Netflix … Just wish that FOXTEL didn’t have such a stranglehold on content here down under Anyhow – I just discovered something very cool in the iPad app. Quite by accident really , and I thought you might find it useful too , no matter which restricted region of […]
Facebook spam – the reporting and blocking tools
So while we wait for the hung parliament to be announced, here’s a random HOW TO for Facebook. Seriously , I cannot believe we voted for lying union thugs in equal measure to lying smarmy snake-oil salesmen . Bleugh! Almost as bad as spammy fake profiles on Facebook. We all see them , the spammers […]
Facebook Hack : turning off notifications
If you’re anything like me , your Facebook feed is cluttered , and you comment on posts left right and centre. Which is fine , and dandy , except when you’re just over something that happened like 5 days ago, and you still keep getting notified every time a new person comments , or like […]
New reaction snuck into Facebook overnight
Check it out … Facebook snuck in a new reaction overnight Love this addition – especially since it blasts little purple flowers all up the screen on my iPad when picked … Let’s hope it’s not a temporary thing just for Mothers Day …because I think it’s fantastic. And of course it doesn’t hurt that […]
Facebook’s Save feature : on the iPad app.
Yes, we all know in a perfect world, when you’re checking Facebook, you would be able to savour every movement, and reply with great thought and care. You’d have the time to go to each interesting article or link and take your time reading and digesting. That doesn’t happen though, particularly if you are super […]
Uber me baby, Uber me
Uber Nemesis of taxi Drivers everywhere. The Ultimate Disruptor in transport. *except for Self driving electric vehicles of course. 😉 We recently began using Uber in earnest. Mostly for business related trips, up to the airport, the train station or to see a client where I don’t have my car for the day. For those […]
UML2.2: Microsoft Visio’s shortcomings
This is a very short entry as I am in the middle of frantically trying to finish up a first draft version of a functional spec , for various stakeholders to take a first stab at a review . I thought I would quickly post something regarding the rather fortunate discovery that I made today […]