The image you portray can help you win, or loose customers.

Recently everything and anything to do with property has caught my attention. Why because I know that in years past a great number of people have made wise choices around property that have netted them great wealth. On a more personal note I’m facing a potential 3% increase in my mortgage rate this year - 3% I can’t afford. So I’m looking at options.

I left work today and jumped in my truck (flickr pics) to drive home. As I pulled out of the side road I park on, I noticed a vehicle with some form of advertising at the top of the windscreen. I noticed because it was backward - I guess so you could read it in your rear vision mirror should this vehicle be behind you. So I drive on a little more (traffic = bad) and realise the advertising was a URL.

I forget the url (it was way long), I remember it was orange and I remember 2 words out of it. Passionate and Property. Now let me paint you a picture. (more…)

Guest post by: Paul Sanderson
Hi all. Mr K is letting me ride his coat tails and allowing me to guest post over here at this wonderful place.

A little about me:

I’m a Pisces, 26, love long walks along the beach… oh wrong site… (Edit: Bl**dy oath, what sort site am I running?)
The long and short of it is that I am on a journey to become a dot Com Mogul. Yes that could be a bit pretentious but that’s the challenge. The plan is to use the techniques and advice that other “successful” blog owners are always talking about. Readers of page92 will be able to learn what works and doesn’t directly from my experiences.

One of the main factors that makes me think I am going to be successful is that I have a clearly defined set of goals. Mr K has talked about goals in this post here, but today I wish to let you know the way I went about setting goals.

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I’ve been pondering recently about a large (maybe) section of the market that Apple & iTunes haven’t tapped. See here in New Zealand you can’t buy an iPhone (well not legitimately anyway), but see I don’t need one (I want one!!) as I have a perfectly good (terrible, useless, horrible - did the designer EVER try to make a phone call on this thing?) iMate JasJam.

My JasJam is 3G (the iPhone is not), my JasJam has WiFi, and my JasJam has external storage in the form of SD Cards (iPhone does not). This makes the JasJam a perfect all in one device for playing all the wonderful music I have on my iTunes & iPod. I also like to go to Starbucks & I have an iTunes account … but I don’t have iTunes Wireless Store access.

So why is there no iTunes for my Windows Mobile? Why can’t I plug my iMate into my MacBook Pro and sync my iTunes music & podcasts? Heck I might even consider paying for it (bwa ha ha ha.. like fun!).

To you my readers I ask: what Mac (OSX 10.5) software is there that can sync my audio with my iMate & what Windows Mobile software is there to play it?

As you know from my earlier post I’m rusty when it comes to coding. We’ll I’m working on a small project in my weekends (which I’ll unveil in the coming weeks) and while it’s more a proof of concept than anything, I’m using it as an excuse to brush up on my PHP skills - not that I program any more in my day job (yeah!)

So I thought I’d share a couple of things I’ve found - that are probably old news to you.

Remove duplicates from an array: a really, really simple thing to do.
Lets say I have an array $myArray = (’Red’, ‘Green’, ‘Red’, ‘Blue’, ‘Red’, ‘Yellow’) and I didn’t want Red in there 3 times. PHP has a nice little function called array_unique().

$myArray = ('Red', 'Green', 'Red', 'Blue', 'Red', 'Yellow');

$clean_array =  array_unique($myArray);

$clean_array now looks like (’Red’, ‘Green’, ‘Blue’, ‘Yellow’)

Insert multiple rows with one insert:
I always thought you couldn’t add multiple rows to a table with an insert. I thought each insert had to be a single row. Well this is not so as I found out today. Lets say you are adding 10 items to a ‘tag’ table (id, tag) you can do it like this:

INSERT INTO 'tag' (tag) VALUES
    ('apple'), ('windows'),
    ('css'), ('seo'), ('html'),
    ('design'), ('xhtml'), ('lcd'),
    ('usb'), ('crt');

Of course you can dynamically build the values and pop in many rows at once. I saw a post on some blog (I’ve misplaced the link since getting this to work) that mentioned adding many megabytes of data this way - I can’t say I’d recommend that as a particularly efficient way - but for adding maybe 50 tags it’s jolly fast.

On a side note, anyone know of anyway to get mysql to return the id’s for the rows it just added. If you are adding one row at a time of course you can use ‘mysql_insert_id()’ to return the id (only if you are using auto_increment) of the previous insert. Sadly this doesn’t seem to work with multirow inserts.

A great video interview with Bill Gates & Steve Jobs discussing how Apple introduced Microsoft to the world of Applications. Microsoft owes Apple big for giving them the leg up into that market.

We’re a cynical bunch aren’t we. If TV & Movies desensitize us to violence then the internet desensitizes us to charity & needs.

I’ve had a couple of things happening recently that have highlighted the issues faced when wanting to or needing too raise funds online and just how hard it is becoming to raise awareness and funds.

Lets take the case of my very good friend over at webhelp …
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My very good friend who runs www.webhelp.co.nz had a horrific weekend with his parents involved in a head on car crash. His mother has minor injuries (air bags help!!) but his dad suffered some bad injuries and is still in ICU (intensive care).

Webhelp has set up a donations page on his blog & I am asking you all to consider donations. Skip a coffee today and give the $5 to webhelp. I’m going on record and saying ANY “buy me a coffee” money that comes in from Studiowhiz for Feb & March I will give to him. Can you skip one coffee and give something?

» Donate money to webhelp now to help his parents.

A simple recipe to enjoy on a lovely summer evening

• Chop onions, greenpepper, chilli, black pepper, salt (to your taste buds), fry in olive oil
• Grill bacon until well done, then add to base
• Cook up some el dente pasta (any type you want)
• Gently fry some prawns in olive oil , add garlic and plenty ginger
• Sprinkle generously with parmesan cheese
• Add fresh Basil leaves at the very end
• Mix it up –serve warm with a cold beer

A lovely simple recipe shared by Dwayne Alexander of Live My Goals.

In the first of our interviews we took the time to send some questions to Dwayne Alexander the brains behind the new social network Live My Goals. Here is our interview with him.

[Studiowhiz] Live My Goals is very new - still in beta right? So why don’t you start off by giving us a quick run down of just what livemygoals.com is?

[DA] www.livemygoals.com is a social network for goalgetters.

Our definition of goalgetters includes

• people who are goalsetters and want to achieve something specific in their lives (e.g. launch a business, achieve health & fitness, earn more money create better relationships or simply get their act together)
• professional goalgetters like coaches, trainers and mentors who help goalsetters create action around their goals.

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Like my writing (see last post) I don’t make any claims about being a great photographer. Heck the only camera I use at the moment is a 4 year old Sony point and shoot digital. However I’ve enjoyed a little fame for some of my shots.

My latest one came after a trip with my brother into 4×4 land. Now I’ve not been 4×4ing since I was a kid (don’t ask, it as too long ago). So when I announced to my brother (who is a 4×4 king in some circles) that I had bought an 18year old truck he said “Lets go 4×4ing”. Long story short - he was the one stuck in the mud for 5 hours.
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