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Hi everyone, yours truly reporting on day 2 progress (yesterday).

Tell 2 people: Emailed 2 of my buddies, W and P about participation in pilot, asking them to comment and see if I’ve made progress in 2 weeks.

Actions:
- Posted blog entry on day 1
- Research various ways of making income, found out that most are a combination of these: ads, affiliates, paid surveys/surfing and selling products through online stores.
- Unexpectedly went in depth looking at a few affiliates projects (SFI and GDI) instead of waiting for day 4 as was in my plan :).

Requests:
- Emailed Jeremy from Ensight my 3 questions.
- Emailed Rob from Team Y about possibility of sharing information, as we have very similar goals.

I’m a bit swamped with things to do right now, so I might catch up on another post later on to update if there’s any results that came in from my requests/actions.

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Ok, so yesterday was day 1 of the breakthrough pilot. My 2 actions for yesterday were:
- Create a plan for the research week
- Come up with 3 questions to ask successful people in the industry.

So, here’s the 3 questions that I’ve come up with:
1. Would you be able to share some of the lessons you have learnt during your time in this business?

2. How long did it take you to build up your business to the point of achieving pretty good income?

3. Would you be able to recommend other people that I should also talk to, to get some more insight and knowledge about being successful online?

and here’s the research week plan (names of people to tell are cut off to protect the innocent :), but those are real people that I’ve decided to contact on each day):

Day 1:
Action 1 = Build plan for first week (Research phase)
Action 2 = Prepare list of 3 questions to send to people I need to know

Day 2:
Action 1 = Find some initial names of people to contact
Action 2 = Research various ways of getting income online

Tell 1 = W
Tell 2 = P
Tell 3 = Blogging this

Request 1 = J
Request 2 = Result from action 1

Day 3:
Action 1 = Obtain names of people making money through blogging
Action 2 = Research some blogging platforms

Tell 1 = H
Tell 2 = A

Request: Results from action 1

Day 4:
Action 1 = Obtain names of people making money through affiliates
Action 2 = Research how affiliates work and requirements

Tell 1 = R
Tell 2 = D

Request: Results from action 1

Day 5:
Action 1 = Obtain names of people making money through portals / selling products online
Action 2 = Find out if there are other options of making money online and research them

Tell 1 = R
Tell 2 = A

Request: Referrals from previous requests

Day 7:
Action 1 = Decide on which method to go with
Action 2 = Decide on site name
Action 3 = Think of designers for site (A, P, B, designoutpost.com…)

Tell 1 = H
Tell 2 = T

Request (design cost + availability of designer)
1. A
2. P
3. B

Day 8:
Action 1 = Build plan for 2nd week (Action week)

There you go, please feel free to suggest on different things I should venture to research and people to contact. The plan is open to change, and ditto for the 3 questions.

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I’m currently participating in a pilot program called 2 weeks to a breakthrough. In the beginning I didn’t really want to participate since I thought I don’t even have 1 hour a day for myself between work and spending time with my wife and kid, but yet I ended up signing up, thinking that I would gladly sacrifice an hour a day of my sleep to actually do something instead of just having these ideas in my head and never actually do anything about it.

The overall goal that I’ve set for myself is this:
To have my own online/web based business/venture that allows me to work for myself, achieving financial freedom.

Why I want to do this?
So I can spend more time with my family and have a lifestyle that builds up a strong family.

Within the 2 weeks, I hope to start this journey, deciding on what form of business I’m going to do, register domain names, hosting companies and decide on products and target markets. To do this, I’ve decided to split the 2 weeks into research week and action week. The research week will be focused on researching available methods of making money online, thinking and deciding domain name and hosting companies, getting to know people who are successful in such ventures, and making connections. The action week would be where I’d start registering the domain names, signing up for hosting companies, setting up the sites etc. Of course, this plan is quite flexible and open to change, so the details will be posted in another post after this one.

So, throughout the next 2 weeks or so, I’ll be posting daily updates on what actions I’ve taken to get closer to my goal. Throughout the project, I might also post some reviews and advice that I receive from other people who’ve been successful in the business, depending on whether or not they consent to me posting their answers/advice.

If you have any suggestion/ideas on what I should or should not do, tips on marketing, business, technology etc, please feel free to post comments here and let me know. Anything that will keep me from being stagnant and idle is greatly welcome

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*Drool* at the new Playstation 3.

Lots of people have said they hate the looks of the new controller… well, I for one find it awesome and like the way it looks.

Technorati tags: PS3, Playstation 3, Playstation

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I can’t remember the last time I hit the gymn. As I recall, I haven’t gone anywhere near it since my son was born, so about 2.5 years would be a good guess. Well, yesterday night I went to the gymn inside our building, and lifted some weights, and then ran the treadmill for about 1/2 an hour.

Surprisingly, I wasn’t that tired after that, and even though I fully expected not to be able to move in the morning, I’m feeling great. A few muscle aches and pains here and there, but not too shabby for a guy who hasn’t worked out in a long time.

I think I might start exercising more regularly now, especially since the gymn is only a few floors above

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Link – Video
Wow!!! That’s all I can say…

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It’s an archive of a post I put on a newsgroup from 1994 (link – search for ‘Darrick Rochili’ on the page). Man, I remember those days when internet connection was scarce, and I was scouring BBS’ for files to download, connected via Telix and MS-DOS. I remember buying my very first modem (forgot the brand), a 14.4 K for $400 Australian.

Then I went to a summer class at the local university, Univ of Wollongong, and we were all given email and internet access. No browsers back then, only dos terminal connections. The only fun was IRC (text based), searching for warez sites and trying to crack unix password files

Then came the time when I was introduced to the first ever Netscape browser, damn it was a rush. Trying to get it to work was hours of frustration with SLIP, Trumpet Winsock and damn old Windows 3.1.

Oh boy, I suddenly feel quite old

Quote:

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Date: 4 Dec 1994 04:41:16 +1100
From: iss20903@loranth.cs.uow.edu.au (Darrick Rochili)
To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Having more than one session using SLIP

Hello, could anyone help me with this. I want to get more than
one session when I’m logged in the internet, which uses UNIX.
I’m using msdos and telix. Do I have to get a software for it ?
If anyone knows how to do this, please reply and let me know.
Thanks

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It’s very interesting to hear the conversations going around these days. I notice that the younger generation (ie. about 20 – 25 and below) tend to speak using the words in the title a lot.

For example, this morning while I was on the train trying to nap before coming to work (left office at 9 pm last night, application rollout that was supposed to take 2 hrs max ended up taking 4 hrs, thanks to one of IE’s ‘features’ ). I sat next to and diagonally across two people who were having a conversation, and to my amazement when one of them talked, she used the word ‘like’ twice or three times in a single sentence. Throughout the conversation, in every sentence she had, I noticed that again and again.

I’ve noticed this quite a lot in conversations around me, sometimes it’s the word ‘like’, sometimes it’s ‘u know’, and lots of times there’s ‘ummm…’s here and there, and just makes me wonder why this has become such a habit in society? Like is it something we learn at school ummm, u know, maybe like ummm … words we use to fill in the blanks when we’re not too sure what to say? Umm… probably because it’s like a filler while we try to come up with something to say, u know?

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- Interested in searching Yahoo and Google at the same time? Try YaGoohoogle. It searches both engines simultaneously and displays the results side by side.

- GMail boosted it’s storage space to 2GB. Way to go Google!

- Today’s the deadline for me to submit my preferences for my next placement. I’m down to these positions:

• Knowledge Management IT Intern
• ITSM Analyst
• IT Project Coordinator
• Coordinator, Project Management Office
• Application Architect
• IT Security Architect

Anybody wanna lend me their opinion on which to choose? Still too blurry on what I’m gonna choose.. probably gonna go down to the last minute of the day before I submit my choices

Technorati tags: YaGoohoogle, Yahoo, Google, GMail.

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Whoa… I just got news this morning that there was a stabbing in my building last night about 10 pm. The building was apparently sealed off so nobody could get in or out.

Scary thought (no this is not an April’s fool joke)

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