Tim's Wee Part of the World » Uncategorized http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog Come along and join in. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:20:01 +0000 en hourly 1 It’s been a grand day http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-been-a-grand-day http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-been-a-grand-day#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:35:50 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=36

Hi,
Well here I am – at the end of another Saturday (actually it’s now in the wee hours of Sunday) and feeling like I’ve achieved today.

It’s a good feeling.

The new script is coming along nicely. I’ve just been installing it on a few sites and upgrading the older versions I had here and there and it’s transitioning over nicely.

It’s been a big rewrite to build in a lot of new functionality (that’s a big word for this time of the morning).

In my conference today I was shown a new little tool I quite liked. We use the hotconference rooms which is about to be released to the public in it’s flash format. But we’re using the beta version which still hasn’t got it’s desktop sharing happening.

So we used a program from Yugma.com which is Java Based and ran like a treat. So I got to show off my new script to everyone in my class today which included some new fresh faces ( always good to see).

It’ll be just about ready to unleash to my group in a week to let them thrash it to death and help shake out those little bugs.

So I’m rather excited about that.

Well that’s my little rant for this evening(morning). Off to bed and do some more work in the morning.

Have a grand one!
Tim

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-been-a-grand-day/feed 0 Whoops – I’ve been sending people from Webbizinsider to the Wrong Website. http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/whoops-ive-been-sending-people-to-the-wrong-site http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/whoops-ive-been-sending-people-to-the-wrong-site#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 05:19:11 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=33

For those of you that have been responding to my email regarding getting help on all that “Techy Stuff”, you should be going to…

http://www.LookingOverMyShoulder.com

I apologise for the confusion.

Actually while I was writing that email I was on the phone to a mate of mine telling him how important it was to get a website using his own name. So that’s what I had sent out as the link, the link to this site.

Actually I must say it was a rather inspiring phone call as Ian wanted some help with his website  Mums On A Mission

So as we were yakking, I was looking to see if his name was available so he could use it for his own website to put a blog onto so he could use it to talk about his “health and wellness” issues and how he was going about it etc. It turns out his name was available.

In the meantime, I was writing an email to send out to my downline at WebBizInsider
to promote my fledgling site that I’m using as a platform to help out those, like Ian, who are a bit unsure of what to do when it comes to websites etc.

And being late, when it came to adding in the URL to send people to, I had put in this domain name, as the subject of the night was the benefits of having your own Website with your own name as the website address.

The reason being, as I have a bucket load of websites myself, what I should really be doing is sending people to this website so they can find out about all my other sites, projects, etc.

They can easily remember – Umm what was it Tim was yakking on about – oh yeah his website is www.TimBrownlaw.com – I’ll go there and take a look…

Great Plan but unfortunately, I’ve not yet set this up properly to do that. Which takes me back to my favorite subject because it’s something I seriously need to take on board if I’m going to be in a position to do this (and other stuff) full time, online.

That favorite subject is – Planning. Which I am slowly getting my head around but having the long chat with Ian letting him know what he should be doing, was also voicing what I should be doing.

So Ian, thanks for the phone call mate. There is nothing that teaches you more than voicing what you know to help someone else out. Hearing those words come out of my mouth, means I know what to do, but I was realizing, “hey I’m not doing this”.

I Need more phone calls so I can dig out what’s floating around my head that I don’t know I know… Sounds strange. Possibly!

There might be something to that whole process that’s worth looking at in more depth.

Anyway, if you do need help with any Techy Stuff you can’t get your head around go to
http://www.LookingOverMyShoulder.com

AND as always, check what you are about to send out to any list. Although, if I hadn’t done my little whoopsie, I’d have no need to write this post. I’ve found this whole little experience quite enlightening.

I hope you can drag something out of my experience.

But anyway, if you are celebrating Christmas, have a most enjoyable one and a very safe and happy holiday season.

Be careful on the roads.

Cheers
Tim

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/whoops-ive-been-sending-people-to-the-wrong-site/feed 0 Should I Join Mack Michael’s Maverick Money Makers – Part 2 http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/should-i-join-mack-michaels-maverick-money-makers-part-2 http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/should-i-join-mack-michaels-maverick-money-makers-part-2#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 12:58:33 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=32

Well here is an update. Yep, I went and joined up and I must say there is LOT of videos to watch. Which is a good thing.

If you do join, I would highly recommend that you watch the introduction Video which goes through all the sections that are available.

Then, as I am doing, I’d have a good look around.

Now the Videos are downloadable, which I find to be a great benefit, as you can download once – watch many times.

I’d also suggest having FreeMind up and running while you listen so you can quickly jot down the main concepts. Then you’ll have a summary of everything that’s mentioned. These act as memory joggers for what’s been covered.

Boy, there is a lot of content and definitely worth the monthly membership Fee. There is new stuff being added every month.

I’ll be back to pad this out a bit more, it’s bedtime at the moment.

So if you haven’t yet, go to the site and watch the videos on the main site.

Mack Michaels – Maverick Money Makers

I’ll talk to you again real soon.

To your success
Tim Brownlaw

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No, I’m not speaking of those kinds of thoughts…I’m talking about all those ideas spinning around inside you skull and being fired up with even more as you go wondering about the interenet and reading emails etc.

I don’t know about you, but it gets kind of noisy up in my “Creative” department and the “Get down and doing it” department ends up screaming “hey keep it down in there…” and nothing gets done!

That’s kind of a scary picture of your mind yelling at itself. If you are a shrink reading this, I’m fine, the pills are working great!

But seriously, it’s very easy to get distracted and have ideas etc bouncing around which is nice, but then they get forgotten and nothing is completed and I may as well not have bothered and just gone to bed.

So this post is one way I’ve recently discovered to let the “Creative” Department go wild when it needs to and put in writing what it’s on about ( that’s me actually paying attention and taking heed of those guys which makes them quiet again) which then let’s the “Action” Department sit down and do their thing.

Or it could be about, how to go crazy and start giving parts of your mind names….. But that’s for another time…

FreeMind – no it’s not a mental state, it’s a very neat software package that will let your “Creative” Department Yell out what they are on about and let you keep up and write it all down.

Then the more sane departments can put the mess into some order and do something with it…

And if you don’t know yet… It’s a program that let’s you create Mind Maps.

NOW before you go all “Mindmaps… those are weird things” on me let me just say, that being able to splurge your thoughts and more importantly – organise them afterwards is a Huge Time Saver AND a great way to get organised and if you are like me and have big dreams and never get too far in achieving them, well this is for you.

Now I must also say here, that this is a program that you’ll install and look at and have a play with and probably go – oh that’s nice and run off and do something else….

DON’T!!!!!! It can be a bit hard to see how this program can be helpful , until you learn how to use it and See it in action.

Which is an item on my projects Mindmap, create some videos on using this software, because, as others already have, you’ll thank me for bring this to your attention.

AND IT’s FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus it runs on any operating system.

Some good things that won’t be obvious the first time you use it.
1. You can insert Hyperlinks to websites. Think of a node called Research and have a bunch of links with some notes added….
2. You can link to other mindmaps. Think of having a central mindmap – much like a Home page on a website, to all of your other mindmaps ( mindmap organisation)
3. Go absolutley crazy and just start creating nodes without worrying about the mess. Just blast away…. Then drag things around on the screen. Create more meanignful node and group things together… (brainstorming)
4. Create To Do lists and be able to mark them off when they are done…(Wow I’ve been organised and done something)
5. Be able to see the BIG Picture at a glance…

Now I’ve used this to create my 1 year plan, and broken those down into months, weeks and days….All accessible from my central Mindmap…

It’s called Freemind and you should get it and install it and have a play with it ( it has help built in that shows what it can do ) and I’ll get to making those videos.

All the best to you and happy “Getting organised”
Tim

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And more importantly, should YOU join?

At the moment due to circumstances beyond my control, I’ve had to hold off from joining this membership site as my present internet connection speed is well, temporarily throttled back to being at Dial Up Speed.

Yes, someone in this household managed to exceed our download allowance (not mentioning names here but shes a good cook). The result is, watching or downloading videos for the next 9 days is more painful than watching grass grow.

Anyway, I have been able to watch the videos on the home page.

There are three of them. The first is Mack saying Hello and explaining the wonders of his membership site.

The third is a guided tour through the members area ( which is a nice touch ) so you can see what is available.

The second Video is a number of testimonials. To be honest, I don’t think that they contribute anything. Having a bunch of people saying how wonderful the members area is, is well, a bit Ho Hum!

So Video Number 3 is the one that peeked my interest.

Now I’ve paid my money to a be on a number of membership sites in the past, and from those experiences, and money spent (gurgle gurgle) I’ve not yet found one in this area that is a one stop shop!

By that I mean, if you are going to join a membership site such as this, you want it to be the one and only one.

And by the tour in Video three with Mack making it very clear that he and his gang are putting up fresh content, videos and more importantly, stuff you can use on your websites to do what all the many info courses out there tell us to do…

That would be the selling point for me.

For the monthly fee, ( and I’ve paid this much in the past for those average memberships ) the amount of content and what appears to be a whole range of tutorials makes it a potential winner.

So it’s a matter of…
Here’s the Timber, here’s the nails, here’s all the other stuff and here’s the plan and here’s everything you need to learn how to put it together. In the one place. Well I will be checking it out and joining. (in 9 days – Oh it’s 8 days now :) )

So I’d definitely say, go and take a look at this yourself.

Watch the videos, and you are very welcome to come back here and leave your thoughts on it.

I had better give you the link…
Maverick Money Makers

All the best to you.
Tim

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I once bought my first TShirt that had the words
“I pay attention to Detail”.

I never tried it on at the time because I was in a rush.

I took it home and tried it on and on looking down I thought
“hey the words are upside down”

Not really a true story but I’m sure its happened to someone :)

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/theres-something-wrong-here/feed 0 A Curious TShirt Example http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/a-curious-tshirt-example http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/a-curious-tshirt-example#comments Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:13:31 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=22

I was wondering, if I had a TShirt that had the letters P.T.O on both sides, how many people would be running around me reading it.

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/a-curious-tshirt-example/feed 0 Linux – is it worth the effort. http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/linux-is-it-worth-the-effort http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/linux-is-it-worth-the-effort#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:58:07 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=16

My opinion is YES.

But it does come with a high learning curve.

I’m currently running Kubuntu 7.04 on my brand spanking new PC that never got to see a Windows Install.

Well thats not completely true.

I’ve got a VMWare Server installed with windows running on it.
So I can still have a fully fledged windows session at the same time I’m running my Linux.

I love it.

Anyway, time is a bit short at the moment to go into details on that.
So I’ll come back and fill in all the gaps real soon.

Cheers

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/linux-is-it-worth-the-effort/feed 0 It’s all about YOU – Really it is! http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-all-about-you-really-it-is http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-all-about-you-really-it-is#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:50:03 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=15

Hi,
One thing about the internet is its Vast and you get to become friends with people from all walks of life.

Take me for instance!

I’ve been on the internet for too many years. Well over 10 years now.

Not that long ago I stumbled upon the wonders of websites.
It wasn’t long until I began hand coding my websites (which I teach to others, including internet marketers).

That lead me to learning PHP, MYSql, CSS, and all that kind of stuff.

I’m now venturing into CMS programs like this one – TextPattern.
Plus Joomla.

With a number of my existing sites, I soon came to realise that templating was the way to go. So I came up with a cunning plan to do just that.

So putting on my PHP cap I came up with a very simple Templating system.

I even wrote an Ebook about it and teach it in online classes.
This goes hand in hand with my other friends that teach HTML and CSS, its a good mix and a very good introduction into fully fledged CMS Programs.

For the FREE online classes. go and join up at
“InternetIncomeLab.com”:http://www.internetincomelab.com

One of my main loves is teaching.
One day it may even help me work full time from home, but with still working full time and having a family it doesn’t leave a lot of time to do everything I want to achieve.

And that is a big list.

But we’ll get there slow and steady.

Feel free to give me a shout via the contact page.
I’d love to hear from you.

This site is primarily my scratch pad for all the weird and whacky things I dream up, along with the more serious stuff. Yes I can be serious at times.

Alot of what is on here are just my musings, but as time goes on – all of my serious stuff will eventually end up as training courses – scary thought huh – on my other websites.

It probably wont be long till I start being much more serious on here. You’ve been warned.

Anyway, I hope you get a smile, or actually learn something from what’s on here.

Take care, enjoy life and keep learning.
It’s the only way you’ll get to reach your dreams.

Cheers
Tim Brownlaw

Note:
All speling misteaks and grama errors are entirely deliberate.
Well it’s kind of an excuse :)

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]]> http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/its-all-about-you-really-it-is/feed 0 Are Visonaries Over Rated? http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/are-visonaries-over-rated http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/are-visonaries-over-rated#comments Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:00:38 +0000 Tim Brownlaw http://www.timbrownlaw.com/blog/?p=8

While sitting with a visionary he turned to me and quietly said. “I sense that you are hungry”

“Yes” I replied. ” I am”.

“You see those trees down there” he said pointing.
“Yes” I said.
“Well if you were to go down to those trees, a rabbit will come along.”

“Great” I said.”So all I have to do is to go down there and wait to catch it”.

“No” he replied in a concerned tone.

“Umm why not” I said.

“Well if you went down there, you’d step on a twig which would alert a passing band of wolves in your direction that would then pick up the scent of the rabbit and head over towards you.
They would then devour the rabbit and be looking for more to eat. That more would be you!”

“Well then I wont step on any sticks.I’ll just jump over them.”

“If you dont step on the stick then you wont disturb the snake laying near by and you wont see it move and you’ll be bitten.”

“Hmm”, I thought to myself.

Turning to the visionary, I said.
“Well best we just walk across the road to that shop over there and get something to eat.”

“Yes” he replied.

So we got up standing by the side of the road ready to cross the street.

He paused.

There was a deathly silence.

I was expecting to hear him say that it would be dangerous to cross the road as a truck was coming around the bend or something.

Bugga, said he visionary. I’ve forgotten where my wallet is.

The Moral…

Dont stay up late for too many nights in a row programming or you’ll end up writing stuff like this.

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