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The Sydney Morning Herald report that Austrlain IT workers are the “worst dressed”

“Because the majority of IT people are not in front of customers all the time, they tend to slack off,” she said.

Help-desk staff were named as the worst offenders

I’m sorry, I’ve got to be somewhat proud of that. In a world hung up on the necktie, it’s nice to see us nerds proving you can still do an excellent job, without wearing one. And even if you commit a few fashion sins…

Read source article: IT workers dubbed ‘worst dressed’ - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au

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Matt tells us WordPress 1.6 is soon to go into beta, and for wordpress.com bloggers, “should see the fixes and enhancements starting sometime tonight!”
Almost makes you wanna sign up for wordpress.com.
As a software junkie, any upgrade of software I use is exciting. I will have to temper myself on this one though until […]

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Duncan Riley over at the Blog Herald provides some excellent tips on better blogging time management:I’ve written about time management before but with a continued increase in my blogging activity of late I’ve had to do some serious reassessment of how and when I blog and manage the various blogging related tasks I have lately.

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Steve Rubel does it again. his Micro Persuasions site is a gold mine of useful information. Along with Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger, they’re my two must reads each day on blogging.
Here he has given a 10 ways to improve your blog. It was #2 that really caught my eye:

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Walt Mossberg puts forward an article to those who might consider switching to Apple Macs. There is one sentence that really stood out for me:

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ZdNet report that analysts are advising business not to upgrade to Microsoft’s latest OS until it’s a couple of years old.

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Don’t you just love it when something comes along that truly adds value to your blog? SH-Autolink is one such tool.It automatically, on the fly, converts keywords in your posts to web links.

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In all probability, you will find that you will want to make changes to your nice shiny new blog - especially a couple of months after you begin.

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There’ s plenty of talk about six figure blogging on the internet. Well and good. But really, as goals go, is that realistic and achievable? Setting goals too high is a sure fire path to failure. You need in between goals.

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Just when you think there’s no new ideas left in the world of blogging… Steve Rubel over at Micro Persuasion tells us:
Blogger Takes on NYT Chief Food Critic
AP introduces us to Julia Langbein, who mocks the chief restaurant critic of The New York Times. Check out what they have already done to her traffic in […]

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