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Not @oze.com.au

admin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:57:26 +0000

Hi, you probably have in your email contacts an email address @oze.com.au, I recently turned on the catchall on this account to find out that I am getting 100′s of emails daily to various email accounts on this domain that I have owned for many years.

I use col@oze.com.au with colin@ and info@ as an alias, no other accounts exist. I have decided for the time being to put an auto responder in place to let people know that they have the wrong email address. Email are not being read and automatically deleted so do not be concerned about privacy.

Please feel free to subscribe to my blog, I post useful hints and tips here and you can unsubscribe any time if they annoy you. Please feel free to email me if you would like any help with your email.

I recently turned down a $15,000 offer for this domain name but I would consider offers an order of magnitude higher.

Regards Colin Dixon colin@ozol.com.au is my main email address and feel free to call me on 0419 415000 I live in WA so that’s 2 hrs behind Melbourne

Red Bubble

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 11:42:59 +0000

This is a great Art sharing and sales web site, not for amateurs like me but great for some.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/colindixon
http://colindixon.redbubble.com/
http://carollyn.redbubble.com/ (if you want to see some real art)
http://miekeb.redbubble.com/ (if you want to see some great photos)

Test of Three

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:28:37 +0000

In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom.
One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance, who ran up to him excitedly and said, “Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students….?”
“Wait a moment,” Socrates replied. “Before you tell me, I’d like you to pass a little test. It’s called the Test of Three.”
“Test of Three?”
“That’s correct,” Socrates continued. “Before you talk to me about my student let’s take a moment to test what you’re going to say. The first test is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?”
“No,” the man replied, “actually I just heard about it.”
“All right,” said Socrates.. “So you don’t really know if it’s true or not. Now let’s try the second test, the test of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?”
“No, on the contrary…”
“So,” Socrates continued, “you want to tell me something bad about him even though you’re not certain it’s true?”
The man shrugged, a little embarrassed.
Socrates continued, “You may still pass though, because there is a third test – the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?”
“No, not really…”
“Well,” concluded Socrates, “if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?”
The man was defeated and ashamed and said no more.
This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

Google Wave, keep an eye on this

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:51:17 +0000

If you would like to setup an account email me at crdixon@gmail.com from your gmail account.

Firefox addons

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:51:28 +0000

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ there are a lot of time saving features for Firefox

It’s a jungle out there

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:24:20 +0000

Two men in a jungle come upon lion head-on pawing the ground.
One man, ever so carefully, reaches into his rucksack and slowly takes out a set of Nike running shoes, never once breaking eye contact with the lion.
The second man hisses: “What are you doing, you can’t outrun the lion”
And the first man says: “No, but it’s not the lion that I have to out run!”

The point of the story is that many of my colleagues and friends in business, as well as my self sometimes, look at some of the fantastic blogs out there and say “I can’t compete with that”, well is that the race your running?

Consider this, what are others in your industry doing? Have they even started yet, do they have support, you have most likely already come a long way, have a look at what Carollyn’s web site is looking like now, not the best art site in the country but so much more than most have.

http://moodle.ozecrm.com/course/view.php?id=5 is a course I am currently developing

Merchant Referral Program

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:49:24 +0000

After you have your full web sites setup you may like to join this program, this one is simple and quick.

Protecting your computer

admin — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 02:44:36 +0000

Tips for protecting your computer and personal information

The internet has now become an essential business, social, entertainment and educational resource for most Australians. The increasing level of economic transactions on the internet is making it the focus of criminal activities. It is important that internet users protect themselves from falling prey to these activities. The following tips list some simple precautions you can take to minimise the chances of becoming a victim of online criminals.

Install anti-virus and other security software, such as anti-spyware and anti-spam software. Use and update this software regularly. Use an auto-update facility if this is available. You can set most virus software to scan your computer at a set time. Information about anti-virus software is available from the Internet Industry Association website.
Regularly download and install the latest security patches for your computer software, including your web-browser. Use automatic software security updates where possible.
Use a firewall and make sure it is turned on. Firewalls help prevent unauthorised access to, and communications from, your computer. More information on the use of firewalls is found on the Internet Industry Association website.
Delete suspect emails immediately. Don’t open these emails – but if you open an email and it is any way suspect…
Don’t click on links in suspect emails. Visiting websites through clicking on links in suspect emails may result in malware (malicious software), such as a ‘trojan’, being downloaded to your computer. This is a commonly used and effective means of compromising your computer.
Only open an attachment to an email where the sender and the contents of the attachment are known to you. Suspect emails should be deleted immediately. If an attachment needs to be opened, it should be checked by anti-virus software before opening.
Don’t download files or applications from suspect websites. The file or application could be malware. Sometimes the malware may even be falsely represented as e-security software designed to protect you.
Use long and random passwords for any application that provides access to your personal identity information, including logging onto your computer. Don’t use dictionary words as a password. Ideally, the password should be eight or more characters in length. Change passwords regularly.
Use a limited permission account for browsing the web, creating documents, reading email, and playing games. If your operating system allows you to create a limited permission account, this can prevent malicious code from being installed onto your computer. A ‘limited permission’ account is an account that does not have ‘Administrator’ status.

This is from this web site ( Point 9. will save you a lot of problems)

Junk mail and how to spot a fraud

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:27:14 +0000

If you have friends that email you chain letters, do them and us all a favor and reply to them.

go to www.snopes.com and get the truth, they research claims and Urban Legends and give you the background, interesting and informative.

I received the Kidney Theft email again recently, I have had it about a dozen times over the last 10 years. The email is clearly untrue, and designed to spread fear, we have enough of that in the world. I really do not think we need any more please don’t sent them on.

Help fix the problem, my suggestion is google the claim or look up www.snopes.com and reply to the email using reply to all to let the people know they don’t need to be frightened of this, what ever it is.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp

Add a link to your blog and invite them to subscribe, after all your a knowledgeable person and check the facts before you spread rumors, and gossip.

http://servicebroker.com.au/blog/2010/04/junk-mail-and-how-to-spot-a-fraud/