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Is this the height of laziness? If you can’t be bothered taking your dog for a walk, you can get them their own treadmill!

[Via: Gizmodo]

Read this blog post from Seth Godin a while back but I was thinking about it yesterday so had to look it up again: When to start

Too often we find too many reasons not to do something, rather than just getting stuck in.

Found this interesting article on the Computerworld site this morning about projects going bad:
The people aspect of project failure

And another interesting article here: Market for IT contractors still expanding

A new beta version of Google
’s toolbar for the Firefox browser has brought integration of Google’s Docs & Spreadsheets service to your desktop. What this means is that you can double-click on an Excel or Word document and have it open directly in your Google Docs site.

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Have a look at this amazing video – I’d love to know how long it took them to get this right.

ASB have released a new service in NZ called pago (lower case intended) which allows you to make payments for goods using your sms with your mobile phone or by email. The site is clearly targeting a younger audience, even encouraging you to use your TradeMe or MySpace username as your pago login name. There’s even a ‘cool’ beta logo in the top corner. What’s worrying to me is that this service doesn’t seem too secure as if someone steals your mobile phone or gets access to your emails they will be able to steal your money and you won’t be able to do anything about it.

If this doesn’t sound like a good thing to you, be sure to read the terms and conditions to highlight how dangerous this service is. Note how many times it’s stated that if you lose money, you will not be refunded!

For example, you want to pay your friend $20 towards dinner, but you mistakenly enter their username wrong – you lose your money. No refund. No help from ASB. I really don’t think they are making the risks clear enough here, and I guess they are hoping that the younger crowd are more naive and that they won’t read the terms and conditions.

ASB needs to sort this out quickly.

I was a little late to the party but my Movember effort is now in full swing. I have a week’s worth of stubble to carve into something embarrassing! Thanks to my sponsors (Damian, Lisa, Ness, Sheri) who haves donated so far – I’ve raised $25 $55 $60 for prostate cancer research. I’ll be posting the first round of photos tomorrow night…

For those that don’t know, Movember is a charity that raises money for prostate cancer research by getting males to shave a moustache during the month of November. Here’s the blurb from the website:

Movember – Changing the face of Men’s Health
Movember (the month formally known as November) is a charity event held during November each year.
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants known as Mo Bros then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their moustache and along the way raise as much money and awareness about male health issues as possible.

If you would like to help out this worthy charity, please go to http://www.movember.com/nz/sponsor, enter my Rego number which is 45478 and your credit card details. All donations over $5 are tax deductible.

Updated review on the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta email/feeds/news/contacts/calendar client with new screenshots. This is an overhaul of the antiquated Outlook Express client and is targeted towards MSN/Live/Spaces users mainly.

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Microsoft today released Virtual PC 2007 to beta testers via the Connect website and I must say I am quite underwhelmed. We were expecting some form of multiple snapshots and a better management console, but neither are to be seen in this release.

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