Tag Archives: Day Zero

May
31
2012

Problems with my 365 :(

by Skippy

For some reason my Project 365 has stopped dealing with emails correctly; so until that is fixed I am going to pause it. I will still poke photos to it sporadically; but they wont be part of my 365. I was using a word press plug in called Postie to check an pop email address; but [...]

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May
08
2012

Task 51 – Start my Own Business

by Skippy

On my Day Zero List is to Start my Own Business; I have been toying with the idea of this for a while; and while I do poke Just Vigilantes for a while I have always been running it via a VM with Bytemark. I have also been trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my [...]

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Apr
25
2012

Book 3: How to Start Your Own Business.

by Skippy

Rico Nelson’s “How to Start Your Own Business: Step by Step Guide To Starting Your Own Business Volume 2” was a free kindle book that I picked up to have a flick through in relation to task 51 – Start my own Business from my day zero challenge. Most business startups fail. But many of those failures [...]

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Mar
26
2012

Task 82 – Build a 3D Printer

by Skippy

Sublime’s Tantillus 3D Printer looks like an interesting printer, I will have to ask Nathaniel to print me one when Sublime realises the part files. The things that draw me to this 3D printer are its compact size; its mostly printable; and easy to build (and I guess make replacement parts for ) The Specifications are as follows: Outer dimensions: 225mm [...]

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Mar
01
2012

Tasks 35 & 36 – Go without Chocolate, Coffee, and Tea for a month.

by Skippy

For the month of March I have chosen to give up Chocolate, Coffee, and Tea, this is going to be much more painful than the week I gave up Alcohol, Chocolate, Coffee, and Tea. The photo to the left shows the size of my tea mug (its 20 fluid ounces) by lunchtime on any given day at [...]

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Feb
27
2012

Task 46 – Stop Biting My Nails

by Skippy

I have been biting my nails for as long as I can remember; however I added it to my Day Zero, so that I could try and stop biting my nails, I tend to bite them more when I am upset, or nervious, so recently I have been a bit more prolific than normal; however very [...]

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Feb
23
2012

Task 72 – Learn to Program

by Skippy

On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical [...]

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Nov
28
2011

Book 36 – 10 Fun Things To Do With Your Microwave

by Skippy

The Free Kindle Book; 10 Fun Things To Do With Your Microwave has a number of projects including: Build a Miceowave Transformer Stick/Ark Welder How to Measure the Speed of light using Chocolate Microwave CD Candle Holder 5 Minute Chocolate Cake The Microwave Birthday Cake out of all 10 I shall have to try the 5 Minute [...]

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