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10 August 2004   

 

Dangerous holidays

What with sharks and huge spider crabs...

This is from the harbour, on a wet day, yet still warm. We find a spider crab, which is a huge deal to small kids. Much excitement when we reported back to mummy.

watch your toes espes

whatch your nose brad

brad's shark grabber

 


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Task one on holidays, hair braiding

A must have on any holiday, a visit to the hairbraider. This time they are on the harbour in one spot, according to this cool chick they've been told to stay here, and not to spread out this year, so there's a half dozen to choose from. Takes 20 minutes and costs 50p an inch, Esme has 17inches, cool chick calls it eight quid.

Nice purples and greens.

esme gets a hair wrap

lots of beads and threads to choose from


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Best test it our before we go

And we did, just to make sure everything was there, and ship shape. It took up most of our small back garden, and we put it on the slope too.
esme bangs mallet

brad inside tent

esme inspects tentjpg

more tent testing

esme helps test tent

testing out the tent

 


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Esme's scared of horses

Scared she maybe, but they have a fascination for her. Here she tries to pluck up the courage to feed a horse with grass, remembering to tuck her thumb in, "lest it's bitten off."

Maybe I shouldn't mention such things ;-)

esme and the horse scary

esme and the horse

 


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Blogging for Business

Write a blog.
With readers flocking to their Web postings, execs are finding blogs useful for plugging not just their products but their points of view.
"It'll be no more mandatory that they have blogs than that they have a phone and an e-mail account," Jonathan Schwartz, president and chief operating officer of server maker Sun Microsystems says. "If they don't, they're going to look foolish."

I call this providing context. People have little time to spend, attention is limited, if they are to read your posts they must get lots in return—information, and high quality at that, as well as uplifting motivation. The very last thing we want is boring, vapid posts, or posts from yes men, corporate creeps.

When we hyperaffiliate we put our trust in the corporate head. As hyperaffiliates we are partners. We need to hear his vision, his true voice. Nothing else will do.

Listen to blogs.
As another biz blog write up in the Guardian says, if you don't listen, and listen closely to what your customers are saying (sometimes not saying) then you're due to be in real trouble.


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