I sat staring at the microphone frozen in fear…

by Patrick Griffin on May 15, 2013 · 13 comments

Patrick Griffin YGG unboxingAs I write this, it is about five hours and 22 minutes since I gave my business partner the scare of his life.

Well maybe not the scare of his entire life, but certainly of the professional life we have ventured on together.

It was shortly after 3am this morning and I was sitting down to record a voice-over commentary for my first ever unboxing video which we had shot the previous day. [click to continue…]

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CTP detail

Two things happened to me at about the same time over the weekend.

First of all I spent a little time in the CTP chatroom and then I read this blog post from Jon Olson.

Jon’s blog post – When Someone Gets It You’ve Got To Share It – focused on Nick Grimshawe, a regular member of the TELive community who is setting out on a novel method to promote CTP. [click to continue…]

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I’m having trouble getting pregnant

by Patrick Griffin on April 22, 2013 · 14 comments

About a month ago I wrote about a spammer who goofed by posting their entire spam swipe file in one incomprehensible badly spun comment.

Now it has happened again.

This time I had 1,084 words of spammy goodness to wade through.

Here are some of my favorite phrases from this latest offering:

Things start off a little odd…

  • I’m a lengthy time watcher and I just considered I’d drop by and say hello there for your really 1st time.
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  • hey buddy, this is a very fascinating post. Study it, liked it, many thanks for it. [click to continue…]

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Yesterday I did something that I do from time to time…I deleted subscribers from my list.

My reasoning is this, we all sign up for stuff and then after a while we find that the information we once requested is no longer a priority in our lives.

So I figured that if subscribers had not opened a single email from me this year that they no longer wanted to hear from me.

I sent a quick message from my auto-responder to this effect and then trimmed my list on the basis set out above. [click to continue…]

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No word of a lie, I am being honest with you

by Patrick Griffin on April 15, 2013 · 11 comments

I used to have a regular Monday slot on this blog where I would moan and complain about things which annoyed me.

I still do this from time to time but not as often as I used to. So today, instead, I thought I would go for amusing rather than annoying.

The other day I was in an office for a business meeting, yes I am all grown up and go to the odd business meeting from time to time.

During the meeting I overheard part of a conversation with a customer who was explaining why his payment was going to be late. [click to continue…]

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Why passion is the turbo-charger in your engine

by Patrick Griffin on April 8, 2013 · 9 comments

passionI have recently had rather a hard time writing.

It happened when I agreed to do some writing work for a client the other week.

I was given a series of short articles to write on the subject of golf.

Now this is the problem…I hate golf. It does not interest me in the slightest.

The net effect of this is that a series of articles which should have taken me less than a couple of hours to write actually dragged on for days and days. [click to continue…]

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How the soccer club CEO won over a mixed crowd

April 4, 2013

I went to two pubs last night, not for a mini pub crawl, but to hear the CEO of a major sporting company talk. Sam Rush is the Chief Executive Officer of Derby County Football Club, a soccer club which is currently mid-table in the English Championship. Some fans are unhappy that the club is [...]

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Why I hate my Facebook “friends”

April 1, 2013

Facebook is becoming more and more irritating to me. Maybe I am getting grumpier on my old age. Or maybe, just maybe, the medium is becoming so overtaken by idiotic marketers who assume everyone on Facebook is just another target to be pitched. When I log on to Facebook these days it is rare that [...]

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Why office life does not have to be nine to five

March 29, 2013

Traditional office life is not for me and never really has been. I don’t really have the nine to five mindset necessary for such a life…clocking on at a set time, doing a set amount of work and then clocking off eight hours later. I guess I have been thinking of this lately because I [...]

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How many of these mistakes have you made online?

March 26, 2013

If you were at yesterday evening’s high octane T3 spreecast with TimTech’s Jon Olson you might have heard him talk about the subjects of failing and making mistakes. These tend to be regular topics on T3 and TELive as Jon tries to teach people that it really is ok to fail and to get things [...]

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